I woke up the next morning next to Luna. We slept pretty much all night but I'm not going into details. In my opinion, if someone wants to share what goes on in the bedroom then they can, but that also gives them the right to refuse to share as well. Anyways, as Luna was still asleep I wanted to continue to allow her to rest so I snuck out into the hallway to get down to my workshop. Now that the wedding was over I could focus on getting Malice's influences under better control. I noticed from my little outburst on Discord the other day that I don't have as good of control over my emotions as I did before I died. In order to correct this, I was going to need either a month of meditation while I was in demon form, or I was going to need someone that doubly specialized in emotional spectrum magic and Telepathy magic.

I thought in my shop for a few hours as had noticed that Tia had already raised the sun for its daily movements across the sky. I heard a knocked at my door. It must have been time for breakfast as this was the only reason I could think somepony would be knocking on my door this early in the morning. I made my way over to the door and opened it expecting to see the usual morning maid when I was met with the sight of Polearm completely out of breath.

“Morning Polearm, what's got you out of breath so early?” I asked in bewilderment.

“Sir...Edward...I found this...strange...device... while I was... out on...my morning jog in...Canterlot” huffed my assistant.

“Settle down and take it easy first off,” I said as I brought him a chair.

“Yes sir” he agreed.

“Now, what's so special about this device you found?” I asked as I leaned against the wall opposite of Polearm.

“Like I was saying I found this thing while I was taking my morning jog. Thanks to the magic sensing technique I was drawn to it right away,” he said as he held out the machine to me.

“Now that you mention it I do sense quite a bit of magic from it,” I said as I take the machine in my hand. “But it's not Equestrian magic that things giving off, it's void magic.”

I begin to look at the device in my hand when I feel a pain shoot through my head. I hear a pair of voices in my ears and wince from the pain.

We are the Queen Dicloni. Should you need protection of the Vectors, or that of our team, know that we will be there. However, know that should you follow the path of evil, of destruction or devastation, we will not hesitate to tear you to shreds.

I thought this was a token of some kind but I wasn't sure. This could be a dangerous one though. Diclonius can be extremely dangerous, even the sane ones. The creed also mentions a team of some sort. This could be very bad if I'm not careful. The last thing I want is a whole load of these things running around Equestria causing problems, but this could also be a good thing. If they are in control of themselves maybe I could get them to help me with my own mental fortitude. I'll talk with Tia about it later today. I looked over to Polearm as he seems to have recovered from his run here.

“Thanks for bringing this to me Polearm. If you find anything else like this, I want you to bring to me right away.” I said as I pointed toward my personal guard.

I lead Polearm out of the room and look back to my workshop. While I would normally consult Tia about this I don’t think I will this time. The creed did say that these Displaced wouldn’t hesitate to tear me to pieces if I was evil. Although I’m not evil, I do have a lot of hatred inside of me, a hatred that’s not my own. If anyone could help me with this problem it would be a Displaced anyways and it’s better because a Diclonius have to ignore their own inner demons. I take the device in my hand and speak words.

“I summon the Diclonius queen,” I stated.

After I said this the usual void portal appeared and I could feel two magical presences plus an additional three souls that didn’t have magic but had power. I went ahead and activated my Arc of Babylon before they came through the portal completely. I don’t really like being armed when meeting new potential friends, but I still had to air on the side of caution. What kind of an example would I be setting if I didn't take the very advice I’d just gave Tia and Luna around a couple of weeks ago.

I bring myself back to the task at hand as I could feel the presences drawing closer as I saw the figures that started to form. Both of them had massive amounts of magic. So much so, I was actually on my toes as I want to ask for a sparring match. I looked toward the portal and the first of the pair came through. It was a girl with horns and pink hair that fell just past her shoulders came out of the portal. Her outfit consisted of a blue tank top, black jeans, and black strap dress sandals and a short white and pink jacket. She was shorter than I was but still taller than I used to be. As I was looking her over I noticed the device on her ear, matched the one Polearm had brought me earlier. She looked around my shop with a curiosity that I simply hadn’t seen since the like of Twi’s early days of her studies of alchemy.

The other figure drew closer now. I then got a better sense of who was coming through the portal next, because I knew who this magic belonged to. Out stepped another Twilight Sparkle, only this one was more of a pony than a human. She looked almost exactly like my Twilight. She was wearing the usual black skirt, a white t-shirt with her cutie mark on it but she was wearing a red ascot of some sort. After Twilight exited, the portal shut.

The Diclonius girl was still looking around in wonder when I decide to break the silence.

“Hello there Diclonius Queen and Twilight Sparkle and welcome to my workshop. My name is Edward Elric,” I said as I extended my hand.

“Nyu!” said the pink haired girl in surprise.

I noticed something was a little off about this one. I can sense living being powers and as a side effect, I can tell when someone has a lot of powers or abilities. Why is this relevant, because it also allows me to sense life force and this girl had two life forces inside of her. They were, in fact, one at some point but had since split in two. I was one to talk on the other hand as I had thousands upon millions of souls inside my own body. I decided not to pry. Then the duo began to speak.

“Hello, my name’s Natali Basatin but you can call me Nat,” said the Diclonius.

“Hello and as you seem to already know, I’m the Twilight Sparkle of Nat’s Equestria Mr. Elric. I just have to know where exactly are we?” asked the lavender unicorn.

“Haha,” I laughed, “ You’re in Canterlot Castle Twilight and to be more precise, you’re in my workshop just little ways down the hall from Princess Luna’s bedroom.”

The two of them immediately turned bright red. It was then that I started to notice the air around these two was mixed. Oh, how I love to mess with young couples.

“So what’s going on between you two?” I asked with a smirk.

“What do you mean?” asked Nat blushing even more than before.

“Yea there’s nothing going on between us,” said Twilight, staring at the floor.

Any bright and the two of these lovebirds could be used as lights that airplanes use to avoid running into things at night.

“Okay, I’m putting a stop to this right now,” said another voice from nowhere.

I looked around to see no else but us three.

“Okay, who the hell said that?” I asked.

“That would be me,” said another pink haired girl appearing out of thin air.

She was transparent but I could tell right away this was the other soul I had sensed earlier.

“Hi, I’m Sorano and you can just call me Sora. I used to be a defense mechanism in Nat’s head until I became my own person. You’re not wrong about these to being an item either Mr. Elric, these two are just too shy to say it to anyone out loud.” said the astral girl as she disappeared and took control of Nat’s body.

She then proceeded to pull out a picture from her purse and she showed it to me. I took the picture for Nat/Sora and gave it a good look over. It appeared that it was taken rather recently. I was in total shock when I look at the picture. I saw Adam and Lex and a few others I recognized and a few that I didn’t. I quickly handed the photo back to Sora with a smile on my face and I notice Twilight wanted to say something.

“Don’t worry you two, I may tease others on the relationships, but I encourage love in all its forms. It’s nice to see that Adam and Penny got together after they left here though and it looks like Lex is doing well in setting up her guild,” I said with a large grin.

“Wait, you mean that you're the Edward that Adam and Lex mention over Hearth’s Warming?” Sora asked as she rematerialized alongside Nat.

“When you put it that way then I am. So that means you're the Natali that Lex asked about when I was first summoned to her world. I owe your sister a lot. If she hadn’t given me the Arc of Embodiment I would have never gotten my automail shop up and running as quickly as I did.” I stated with another smile.

“Lex did mention she taught you that in exchange for teaching her alchemy and Adam said you taught him magical strengthening. Penny said you also taught her alchemy as well,” Nat said with a glimmer in her eyes.

“I did indeed. Like the original Edward, I still follow the Law of Equivalent Exchange, but I no longer use the standard alchemy of FMA. You see I came to the Equestria over two thousand which allowed me to develop a more advanced form of alchemy that mixes magic in with the materials when I’m using alchemy. I call it alchemagic and since my death a few days ago I can do it without even hardly thinking about it anymore.” I explained.

“Wait a minute, what do you mean you died?” asked Twilight in shock.

“You see, a few days ago during what was supposed to be my niece’s wedding. I went berserk and the collective hatred of the souls in one of my Philosopher's Stones took the opportunity to take control of my body. It was an entity that called itself Malice and in order to be stopped, I had to be blasted with the Element of Harmony. I didn’t survive and blew away like dust in the wind.” I said as I started to walk around the room.

“But you’re standing here now,” interjected Sora.

“Only because I gave up the life I had on earth to return here to Equestria,” I continued to explain.

“Why would you give up the chance to go home?” asked Nat.

“Like I said I’ve lived for a long time here already. Long enough that I came to accept that my family passed away long ago and I also so had my family here I had to think about too.” I said with a slight grin. “ But this leads me to why I summoned you. When I came back I reabsorbed the Stone of Malice and gained a new demon form and with it Malic’s influence once more. I thought another displaced could help me with my mental strain to better control myself. What do you say?”

Nat looked to me with a blank expression before grinning. “I say you called the right girl for the job. I know a few things we could do that might help out. When Lex and Adam left after Hearth’s Warming, Lex gave me a couple magic styles. I could use Maguilty Sense and my Telepathy magic to help you out, but I am not that great at controlling the former yet.”

“Maybe you two can have some kind of a sparring match?” We turn to Twilight as she says this. “I mean, when I was nervous about using the magic Lex gave me, I learned how to control it through experience. Maybe if you two spar against each other, you’ll learn to control them on the fly?”

Nat and Sora both seemed to ponder this. It was a good idea, the problem was that I could go berserk again and Nat may not be able to stop me.

“Well, before we do anything, I think we should go and see Tia and the others and make sure they know you three are here so they don’t end up thinking you guys are intruders or something,” I suggest, the trio nodding before Sora disappears again.

Once said we all leave my workshop and head to the throne room where Tia should be finishing up with the nobles for the morning. I was wondering how the others would react to not only Natali/Sorano but also how they would react to another Twilight, one that looks more pony than human at that. Luckily I didn’t have to wonder long as we turn a corner and run into Shining Armor and Cadence.

“Uncle Ed, I was wondering where-,” Cadence stops herself as she notices Twilight and Natali, the duo looking at the couple in surprise. They stay silent for a second before Nat leans up to talk to me.

“You didn’t say the ponies of this world look more human than Equine. This is weird.” She whispers in my ear. I just rub the back of my head with a sheepish expression as Shining adorns a stern yet neutral face.

“Edward, who are these two?” He asks and I see Twilight go to talk before Nat shakes her head. She then turns to Shining with an equally neutral expression.

“Excuse me Captain, but could you gather the Elements of Harmony in the throne room?” She requests rather politely. Shining looks at her for another couple seconds before nodding.

“Alright. I can tell this is important, so I will do that. But if this is a trap-,” “You don’t need to worry, Captain Armor, we aren’t a threat. We just wanted to meet the Elements before anything else.” Nat interrupts. The duo looked to me and I just nod to them. They both sigh and head out to look for the girls, and I barely see as Cadence looks back at us, or more accurately, Twilight and Natali.

“Wow, so that was this world version of my brother and Cadence? They look...pretty good actually.” Twilight says as the duo get out of earshot. I just nod to her as we turn a corner and I see the doors to the throne room. Walking up, I see as two of the elites are stationed at the door. They do glance at Twilight for a second, the mare hiding behind Natali a bit before I wave them off and open the door.

Entering the throne room, I see as Tia is talking to Luna with Polearm by their side. Perfect, at least we didn’t have to look for them. As soon as the three of us walk in, they turn to us. The trio smile as they see me, then get a curious expression or concerned in Polearms case, as they see Twilight and Natali. We all just stand in the throne room in silence for a bit, not really knowing how to break the ice before Natali coughs, getting the others attention.

“Um, hello. My name is Natali. I am a Displaced that Ed just summoned. Nice to meet this worlds versions of the royal sisters.” Natali says with a slight bow, Twilight following suit. Tia and Luna smile as the duo bow.

“Please rise. If you two are anything like the last Displaced that Ed summoned, then I presume you are going to be sparring?” Tia asks Natali, raising a brow.

“You mean Adam?” She asks, the others going slightly wide-eyed as she knows him.

“Indeed. Praytell, how is it you are acquainted with that warrior who faced my husband not that long ago?” Luna asks. I can see Twilight going wide-eyed in my peripherals and I can hear Nat in my head. ‘You will explain in a minute.’ I realized I didn’t tell them I was married to Luna.

“Well, he is my brother.” The others go legitimately wide-eyed at this revelation.

“He is your brother? Then why is it you do not look alike?” Polearm asks.

“Well, he isn’t my actual brother by blood. But Adam, Lex and I have been best friends for nearly a decade to the point where we all consider ourselves siblings. Our families even spend the holidays together because of the three of us.” She says before digging into her purse and taking out the photo I have seen Lex and Adam have when I met them both. She hands it to Tia and Luna to look at, the sister smiling at it.

“You three truly are an odd trio,” Luna says with a snicker, Twilight and Natali laughing as well.

“There is definitely no denying that Princess. But, that is just what makes us be closer as a family, our differences just make us realize how much we truly have in common with one another.” Nat says, taking the photo back.

It was as Nat was putting her photo away that the doors opened again and the others all walked in. I can see that Twilight, Spike and Shining were in the front with the others close behind them, Rainbow staying in the air as expected. As soon as Fluttershy finally entered, they all turn to me, Nat and Twi. I can see the curious spark in my Twilight’s eyes upon seeing the pony form, but she manages to stay quiet.

“Well, the elements are here. Now can you tell us who you two are?” Shining asks with slight impatience. I couldn’t really blame my nephew for his attitude after what happened not that long ago.

“Wow, what happened here to make Shiny so tense?” Twilight questions before covering her muzzle upon realizing she said that aloud. The others all look to her with wide eyes and Natali facepalms and sighs.

“Dang it Twilight. We really got to see if we can get some help with thinking aloud.” Nat says, Twilight nodding in agreement.

“Ok, what?” Rainbow says, breaking the awkward silence. Twilight clears her throat and steps up.

“Uh, hey girls. I am Twilight, or at least the Twilight from Natali’s dimension. I decided to tag along with her for her first summoning.” She says with a slightly awkward laugh at the end. The others all look shocked and I can see Rainbow looks unconvinced.

“Oh yeah? How do we know you two aren’t just some changelings?” She says, flying up to Twilight’s face. Before any could react Rainbow suddenly falls to the ground, her wings stuck to her back as though they were pinned.

“What the heck?” She says, standing and trying to unfurl her wings with no results. Before she can try and blame anyone, Natali all but teleports in front of her with a glare.

“Don’t talk. To Twilight. Like that. Again.” She warns and I figure out that she is keeping Rainbow’s wings pinned with her Vectors. I can see that Rainbow is actually shaking but Twilight walks up and places a hand on Nat’s shoulder.

“Calm down Nat. You don’t need to protect me like that, remember?” She says. Natali looks to her before sighing and Rainbow’s wings unfurl.

“Sorry. You know how protective I can be.” Twilight smiles and lightly nuzzles her cheek.

“I know. And I appreciate it.” The duo smile to one another and I see the others have some dropped jaws as they know the implication of cheek nuzzles. I smile at this and barely keep myself from chuckling at their expressions.

“Ok, how do we prove you are a Twilight then?” Polearm asks and Twilight and Nat think for a moment.

“I know!” We all look to Cadence as she walks up to Twilight and I can see where this is going. Cadence crouch’s slightly, and I see the realization in Twilight’s eyes before she follows suit with a smile.

“Sunshine, Sunshine, Ladybugs Awake! Clap your hands and do a little shake!” They sing together and my Twilight looks in shock as they do the dance in perfect sync. I look to Nat and see her blushing after the last part of the dance. I turn to my nephew and see him also blushing, but with embarrassment for them. Cadence smile and hugs the other Twilight.

“Well, there is no doubt now, you are most definitely a Twilight.” They end their hug and Twilight smiles at her and then to the Elements. I can just see the ideas appearing in the head of my Twilight.

“Well, now that we got the suspicions out of the way, Nat why don’t you bring out the rest of your party,” I said as Nat looked at me in shock. “ You can relax. I know you have more friends in your purse there, I could sense them when you were coming through the portal, and your creed said you had a team.”

Nat nods with a slight sigh before digging into her purse and looking to my worlds counterparts.

“Hey Twilight, Fluttershy, try to control yourselves when you see them.” She says, earning some confused looks from my friends and a grin from her Twilight. After a second she pulls out three odd orbs the size of cherries and presses the buttons on the front, the balls growing to the size of softballs in her hands. We look to the orbs curiously when Natali smiles.

“Alright, come on out guys!” She throws the balls into the air and after a second they open up with a whitish blue flash. The beams reach the ground before forming and bursting away, leaving behind three creatures

“Nat, are those what I think they are?” I ask in awe.

“Well, if you’re thinking pokemon then you would be correct my fine alchemist,” commented Sora with a grin.

“Everyone these are my partners,” she sang with a smile. “This is Selene the Zorua, Topaz the Mawile, and Chance the Luxio. I got them at different points since I came to my to my Equestria. Team, these are some new friends I like you to meet and before you ask, they have the same names as a lot of our friends back home but they aren’t the same ponies.”

“Hello,” said the trio of pokemon.

“Oh my gosh, they are so cute!” exclaimed the resident animal caretaker.

“They can speak via a telepathy spell it what I’m getting. What type of animals are these Edward?” asked my Twilight with the usual glimmer of curiosity.

“They're called Pokemon Twi, it’s short for pocket monsters. They are a large group of animals that vary from shape, size, type, powers, and abilities. Most Pokemon have the ability to change their form once they reach a certain power level. This is what is called evolving. Sometimes a pokemon’s mentality can go through drastic changes. Like with most displaced abilities their origins are apart of a series of stories meant to originally entertain humans. So technically they are fictional creatures from mine, Nat, and Sora homeworld. Aside from this from this basic info, I can’t give you any more details. I stop caring for the Pokemon series after I lost my games back home.” I explained as I crossed my arms.

Luna pulled up a chair for me and I took my seat next to her. I looked at Fluttershy as she was staring at the pokemon with sparkles in her eyes. The poor pony wanted to nuzzle the whole lot of them but I could tell she was retraining herself as much as she possibly could. So much so she was practically shaking.

“Hey, Nat do you mind if Fluttershy holds them for a bit? She’s pretty much having a nervous breakdown from the strain of holding herself back.” I whispered to Nat so no one could hear.

“Honestly I’m shocked that she didn’t when I brought them out,” she responded.

“Mental training my friend but I’ll take that as the all clear. Hey, Fluttershy, Nat said you could hold them.”

The pegasus scooped up the creatures and began with the routine questions. I noticed that Twilight was still trying to analyze each of the pokemon. Looks like I wasn’t the only one as Nat’s Twi walked up to mine with a notepad.

“Here, I think these should sate your curiosity for a bit. These are the notes I made with Nat about the pokemon and their evolution lines.” She says, handing the notepad to my version. Twilight takes the notepad and begins to read through the notes with an awed smile at all the likely information. Twi begins to giggle a little as she sees my version reading so carefully.

“Wow, we really are adorkable when we are reading something new.” There was a slightly stunned silence as Twi says that, before the room bursts into laughter at her statement.

“Wow, Twi never thought I’d hear you say That!” Natali says, laughing. The others nod in agreement, both Twilights blushing.

“Ok, ok we’re good,” Selene says, picking herself off the ground with the others.

“I’m sorry to interrupt this happy scene, but you still haven’t told us why you summoned these three or six, Edward.” Tia pointed out as she turned to me.

“Sorry about that Tia. As you all know since my return from death I reabsorbed Malice’s Philosopher Stone back into my body. I gained his power and demon form from this, but I also took Malice’s negativity as well. Long story short I’m having trouble controlling those negative aspects of my mentality, whenever I get to worked up. Like when I threatened Discord the other day. Sorry about that Fluttershy.”

“Oh that’s okay, you were just looking out for Cadance and I know you meant it, but you would’ve let him out after the wedding was over, eventually,” said the caretaker as she put Chance on the floor.

“Yea, yea we all heard how Ed threatened to encase Discord in his antimagic crystal spell, but back to what Princess Celestia just said. Why did you bring them here?” said Rainbow as she was her hand in the air.

“You see, Diclonius are known for having a few mental and emotional issues of our own, and I think Edward was thinking we could help him work through his own issues,” explained Nat like a teacher.

“So, in exchange for helping the dude fix his head he was gonna spar with me and Nat in order to help us get a better feel for the abilities and magics we got recently from Lex,” added Sora.

“Sir, you’re going to fight them?” asked Polearm in shock as everyone head turned to face me.

“You can blame the Twilight with the red bandana for this. That’s why I wanted to come and tell Tia and Luna. So they could sign off on it first, but I also wanted to do this outside the Canterlot Coliseum. I didn’t want to risk hurting anypony over a mere training session. I still have no idea on how much my strength has grown and I could still be set off if they say the wrong thing to me.”

“So you thought it would be a good idea to have and Anti-Malice team on standby and that’s why you came to here.” interjected Luna with a scowl.

“Yes, and the location I had in mind can only be reached right away via Teleportation.”

“And what is this location?” asked Tia in a curious tone.

“The Badlands. They’re remote and unsettled so nopony can get hurt if something happens.”

“Not a bad idea Ed. And even if you start to lose control of yourself there is the chance we can hold you off until you can regain control.” Nat says, looking at one of her bracelets.

“You really think you can hold off Malice?” Twilight asked. The trio just chuckles at her question.

“Twilight, we were able to beat Discord when something took over his mind and was actually intent on killing me and the girls. A demon made from collective negative emotions shouldn’t be too different.” Sora says. Everyone looks to the Diclonius duo in shock at this little revelation.

“You two might be a little in over your heads this time,” commented Rainbow.

“How so?” asked Sora.

“Malice isn’t just a collective of angry souls. It’s was also formed from my own negativeness towards myself for not being there over two thousand years ago for Luna and Tia. You have to think about this too. If the Elements of Harmony turned a prankster like Discord to stone but destroyed the jealousy and hatred of Nightmare Moon, then what would the do to Malice?” I added.

“Wait, you mean this Malice thing was blasted with the Elements of Harmony and survived!?” asked Nat’s Twilight.

“Not just the Elements of this dimension but also the combined magics of all three alicorn Princesses and myself,” added Shining Armor.

“How is that even possible?” she asked.

“I sliced off its arm in the fight and it landed on the edge of the blast zone. Just within range to be blasted but just enough to survive it. As Nat can testify, we humans have adaptive immune systems to make sure we don’t get sick from the same disease twice and thanks to a Philosopher Stone kicking every aspect of my body into overdrive, I am now immune to the effects of these things. Unless these things are ramped up to an eleven then you’re screwed, physically anyway.”

The displaced group merely stared at me as if I were just hit by a train. “What?”

“How are you still alive after being blasted with the Orbital Friendship Cannon plus add-ons?!” yelled Sora.

“I didn’t.”

“ So, you’re what a ghost or a zombie?” asked the other Twilight.

“No, I’m completely flesh, blood, steel, and etc,” I said as I stood up from my seat. “Look, long story short I did what I could to hold back Malice while the others used the Elements and magic on me. I died met up with the Truth was given the choice to either return to Earth or to Equestria at the cost of the other. As I’m standing before you know with the current situation you can deduce which life I chose to live.”

“But you could’ve gone home, and been with your family,” interrupted Nat.

“ Listen to me Nat, I may look young but as you already know time flows differently for a lot of Displaced. I arrived in this world long before the Castle of the Two Sister was ever built. It gave me plenty of time to come to terms that my family had passed. Sure, for the first ten years or so I looked for a way to go home, but it was a fruitless endeavor so I settled here. After a few hundred years of wandering, I returned and met Luna, Tia, Starswirl, so on and so forth. I was then betrayed by a pony I considered to be a very dear friend, turned to stone due to this and had my mind shattered almost beyond repair. You can figure out the rest for yourself from what Lex and Adam might have told you. Now, can we please get back to the sparring matter?”

“Yes, everypony, as I think we are all agreed on the location as the Badlands, correct,” said Tia in agreement. “I believe I can teleport a portion of the group there if Luna and Cadance could take some of the others it wouldn’t be too much of a hassle for us all to go.”

“Sorry, but if you don’t mind me interrupting Princess Celestia. I received Teleportation magic from Lex as a Hearth's Warming gift and I haven’t had a chance to teleport a large group very a large distance yet. I was hoping that you’d allow me to teleport us all to the Badlands, and this is also to help you three from using any more magic than necessary. We would need you all at full strength just in case something goes wrong.” explained Nat’s Twi.

“Are you sure you can handle that? A teleportation spell of that magnitude would leave even my sister and myself drained.” Luna says with worry.

“Well she was able to teleport from the library to Applejack’s farm, the schoolhouse, Fluttershy’s cottage, Carousel Boutique, the park then to Sugar Cube Corner within a couple of seconds.” Sora states.

“That’s something I still can get quite right, and it usually takes me a few minutes to do several teleports back to back. So you won’t mind if i ask how are you able to do it so easily?” asked my Twi while she tilted her head.

“Allow me to tell you and save up some time Twi, no offense other Twi.” I interjected, “But as we are still a little rush we don’t have time for a long wind explanation. She said she got her Teleportation from Nat’s sister Lex. See Lex is another Displaced and she is the one who gave me my own magic Arc of Embodiment. We Displaced can freely give our abilities to other Displaced without much effort really, but when it comes to Equestrians we can’t give you all of the abilities but of a downsized version of the skill.”

“Which is why you still have to teach us on the more advanced stuff,” my Twi said as she started to understand. “But I don’t get why she can teleport so much easier than me.”

“You see Twi, what Ed was trying to say my Twi’s magic and his magic have the same roots. As they aren’t from Equestria they aren’t bound by the same magical laws of this world. Which is why my Twi can use her Teleportation more freely than you can, and this magic was specifically created for the purpose we want to use it for.” Nat explained with a humble smile.

“Are we done with the egghead stuff yet? Cause, not only is my head starting to hurt from being told stuff I didn’t understand in the first place, but I really want to so what these new girls can do. No offense Ed, your awesome in your own way and your training multiplied my awesomeness even more but I wouldn’t mind seeing you get on your flank.” mocked Rainbow.

“Yea, so are we going to fight or what?” asked Sora with her own cocky grin.

“Well, you heard the ladies Twilight. Let’s get out to the Badlands asap.” I said with a smile.

“One moment please,” said Tia as she summoned one of the elite guards. “Please inform the staff and court that our group will be our attending to business for the rest of the day. Day court will resume by tomorrow at the lastest.”

“This applies to night court also,” added Luna.

“Yes, your highnesses. Will you be requiring any of the elite guards to accompany you during your trip?” asked the guard in the usual monotone voice.

“No thank you. We’ll have Captain Armor and Assistant Polearm with us as well as the Elements of Harmony with us. So we’ll be in good hands for the time that we’re gone,” said Tia.

The real reason she did this was to keep them out of harm's way. While I did train I didn’t bring them up to the level that Shining was at. It was better not to take chance, ‘Good thinking’ I thought to myself.

“Let’s get this show on the road,” Sora commented.

“Everypony ready?” I asked.

“I don’t have an outfit,” lamented the fashionista.

“No time,” said Spike.

“Twi just teleport us now before something happens,” I say as I rub my eyes.

“Yes, sir Mr. Elric.” answered the giddy unicorn.

“Call me Ed,” I said.

“Let’s go already!” yelled Sora.

There was a sudden shift of colors as we faded from the throne room to our next destination

Author's Notes:

This was a collab with Alvasa’s story The Golden Eyed Sage. The chapters from here on will be the same in both stories, so feel free to check his story for context. Just be prepared for some rough grammar in the early chapters