It had been two weeks to the day that I had summoned Nat and Dusk. Things were in a much less desirable state then I would’ve like them to be but the two of them seemed to be happy with the results thus far. Luna had even given them access to the forbidden section of the Library, but this didn’t surprise me given Dusk and Twi are the same pony on a base level. Polearm had proven to be quite adept with dark earth magic and plant magic. I had even tried out my own techniques for applying talent magic with a few successful trials.

I had sent a letter to those who’s were coming with me to the next world. The team consisted of me, Luna, Polearm, Twilight, Nat, Sora, Dusk, and the Pokemon. When I had called Adam and Lex the other day I had told them to meet us in an open area. I told everypony we’d be departing from my lab. I’d managed to fix the issue with my summoning as well. No more falling through portals at random. I could now walk through no hassles We were all gathering outside in the gardens.

I told everyone to bring a few changes of clothes and nothing more. Anything else we’d need we could buy or make while there. I was going over my list of materials that I’d need to start gathering once I was there while Luna was sitting in the shade taking a nap. Reminds me of when she used to do the same thing in the old castle courtyard. I looked to the gates when I noticed our favorite couples coming through it. I went over and woke Luna up so she’d be ready to go by the time they reached us.

Nat was wearing the outfit she arrived in as was Dusk but with the addition of the coat, I’d given her. I didn’t see the Pokemon. I could only guess that they were already in their pokeballs. Twilight was wearing blue jeans with running shoes and a blue top with her mark on it. Polearm was wearing his onyx armor with his naginata strapped onto his back.

“Good afternoon everypony, I hope your travels here went well,” said Luna with a smile as our friends met us. “Everything went smoothly Princess. I explained to Spike that I’d be gone another week but he really didn’t seem to mind until I told him that Ed had sent him homework and it had to be done by the time I got back,” giggled Twilight. “Nat and Dusk, I have something for the both of you,” said Luna as she pulled out two necklaces with a shield and moon pendant on them.

“What are those Princess?” asked Twilight. “These are the official crest the school of the moon. They mark Dusk and Nat as graduates from my peerage and Dusk’s has the addition of stars on it to signify her as an Archmage of Dark magic,” Luna explained as she handed the pendants to Nat and Dusk. “I’m very proud of the two of you and your always welcome at the Library and here.”

The duo stares at their new necklaces in awe for a bit before they both smile and place them on, looking towards Luna with tearful smiles. “Thank you, Princess Luna.” They say together.

“It was you two that put forth the effort and time, just remember to always keep learning. No one is beyond this, even Tia and I. Ed is also a perfect example of this. Now, I believe all we’re waiting on is your brother to summon Ed,” Luna said looking to me. “I’ll call now that we’re all here,” I say as I pull out my token. “Call Adam.”

The watch popped open as the hands spun a screen showed from its face. It displayed a close up of Adam’s face. “We’re all ready on our end Adam. Just need you to summon me. Here Nat and Sora want to say Hi,” I say hand the watch to Nat. “Hey bro. Sora says hi too!” She says, Adam, waving back. “Alright, I am going to summon you guys, stand by.”

The display cut off and Nat throws the watch back to me. After a few more seconds I hear the words ‘I summon the Crimson Sage’ in my head and then a Void Portal opens in front of us.

“I’ll go, first guys, then you'll follow after Luna,” I say walking into the portal. “Let’s go girls and Polearm,” Luna said with an excited smile. “Come on guys a new world is waiting for us!” yelled Polearm as he and Twilight ran in hand in hand.

“You ready to see Adam and Lex again?” asked Dusk. “Hell yea!” exclaimed Nat. They then ran into the portal as it shut behind them.

I was waiting with Qrow, Rainbow, and Penny in the field near the Everfree for the others to come through the void portal. I was thinking about what I was going to do to help Nat and Sora through this situation. Ed told me about how Sora basically reversed in age within Nat’s head into her actual age of a seven and a half-year-old. I could only imagine what that did to her mind.

When I ended up telling my friends what happened, Qrow immediately tried to take me to the local bar to forget about it. Penny ended up shocking him with her lightning magic. Pyrrha and Ruby agreed to help me and Ed gather the necessary components when they have free time. Rainbow just seemed to want to train more for some reason.

I look towards the void portal as I sense several large energy signatures coming through. I saw as the changed Alchemist walks through the portal, the red coat he was wearing being changed to fit his new size. Ed was actually almost as tall as me now. Behind him was his wife, Luna. She was wearing a rather formal looking dress that seemed to work well for moving around. After her, was an earth pony stallion I guess was Polearm that Ed told me about, and his world's version of Twilight. The duo was running through the portal hand in hand, so I guess they got together.

The last ones to come through were the ones I was worried about. Nat, Sora and her Twilight. They definitely changed. Nat had her Neo jacket and a pair of black jeans on, and she had an odd necklace with a shield and moon on it, as well as her purse and AR. Twilight looked the most different from the last time I saw her. She had a black coat like Edwards with some kind of purple sparkles in it. She also had a necklace, but it had an extra star on it. The biggest differences though were her left arm that was made of crystal and a red tattoo over her right eye, the same one Jellal has in Fairy Tail.

As soon as my sister and her Twilight walked through, the portal closed. The group looked around a bit before they noticed me and my group standing off to the side.

“Adam! Penny!” I can barely react in time as Nat jumps up to me and Penny, the both of us barely staying upright. “Salutations Natali! Good to see you again.” Penny says, all of us breaking the hug.

“Hello everyone,” Ed says as he and Luna walked up to me and Penny. “It’s nice to see you again Ms. Polendina. How are your alchemy session progressing?” asked Luna from behind her husband. “Very good princess. It took a while for me to get used to it, but eventually, I managed to control the energy flow for the alchemy. I was able to fix some of the items my friends brought from Remnant, like Crescent Rose and Ruby’s cape.” She answers.

As those two are talking, I am looking towards Ed with an impassive look on my face. Even though he explained what happened with great detail, a part of me couldn’t help but feel mad at him for hurting my sisters and Twilight. I hear some wings flapping next to me and turn to see Rainbow who is looking to Nat’s Twilight in shock.

“I-I don’t….Twilight?” Nat’s Twi turns to Rainbow with a smile, waving her left hand. “Hey, Dash. It’s actually Dusk right now, so we don’t end up confusing me with the other Twilight.” She says, Rainbow just looking to her arm. She sees her look and sighs. “Yeah, a lot has happened since last we met.”

“Ya think?! Tw...Dusk, if it wasn’t for the arm, what got you into this bad mare look? I mean, a tattoo!?” She says in shock. Dusk just giggles at her reaction. “Wow. If you are reacting like that, I wonder what my versions back home will react.” Dusk then lights up her horn for a second, and the tattoo changes from red to lavender, the outline barely noticeable.

“So, is anyone going to introduce me?” We all turn to Qrow as he says this. “Right, sorry Qrow.” I walk up and place a hand on his shoulder. “Everyone who doesn’t know, this is Qrow Branwen. He is a hunter like me. Qrow this is Edward, his versions of Princess Luna and Twilight, Polearm, my big sister Natali and her version of Twilight, call her Dusk.” I introduce quickly. He just waves after a second and takes out his flask again.

“Why am I not surprised that is his response.” Dusk mumbles to herself. “Not even halfway through the day and he’s already hit the sauce. So, Adam, I know you still really pissed with me so I’ll let you take a couple of hits out on me if it’ll help any,” said Ed as he came over to me passing Qrow. I look slightly down to the Alchemist and think of trying out my soul ability I have been training with.

“Alright. I want to try something I have been working with.” I say, Penny, looking to me with wide eyes and stepping back a bit, the others looking worried. I step back a bit and focus my aura and magic. I then do as I have been practicing with Penny and focus my aura outside of my body and towards Edward, the alchemist looking intrigued.

“What is that you're doing there?” asked Ed. “I think I might want to put up my shield,” as he said this Edward’s body took on the form of greed in full Ultimate shield form. “Okay go for it.”

I smile and finish focusing my aura before slamming my palm on Ed’s chest. Nothing happened for a second before I twist my hand and focus my aura to the exact opposite wavelength as Ed’s, sending the alchemist flying back. He bounced on the ground a couple times before stopping, gasping for breath.

“Ed!” shouted Luna as she flew over to check on her husband. “How could you send him flying like that Adam. Ed was only trying to let yet release your anger not send him flying!” shouted Luna at me looking over her shoulder. Then Ed grabbed on to her and started to laugh.

“HAHAHAHA! That was great. I even felt it through my armor. Was that your aura?” asked the alchemist as he got to his feet with some help from his wife. “Sort of. It was a technique I have been trying over the last week. I essentially alter my aura’s wavelength to either match or become the opposite of my targets. Think Soul Eater. If I can master this, I think I could give Blackstar a run for his money.”

There was a sudden rush of wind and I was standing face to face with the now human Edward. “You're not the only one who’s been practicing my friend. Since Nat and Sora helped me with Malice I can use my homunculus abilities without restrictions. Still got Envy under wraps but I wonder. Could you perhaps help me unlock my semblance while we’re here along with those soul techniques? In exchange, I’ll have a line of elemental clothing for you and your team.”

I look to him for a second before nodding. “I’ll do what I can. Ozpin and Pyrrha are still better teachers when it comes to aura though. We still haven’t found Penny’s Semblance, so maybe this could help out.” I say in thought. Penny seems to perk up at the idea. She has been trying really hard to unlock her semblance, kinda like Jaune.

“Well, now that you are done trying to beat the crap out of Ed, can we summon Lex?” Nat says from behind me. I look to her and nod before digging into my pocket and taking out Lex’s token. “I summon the Fairy of Justice.” We all turn to the new void portal with the Fairy Tail symbol and I sense three different magic signatures making their way through, one being Lex and the other two being new.

After a minute, Lex walks through the portal, her rapier at her side, and two more wizards come out behind her. The first was a unicorn stallion with a white fur coat with some black stripes, a wild styled, sky blue mane and some kind of blue triangle on his cheek. He was wearing a plain blue t-shirt and black jeans and a white overcoat and a single black glove.

Next to him was someone that took me a second to recognize. It was Spike, but he was definitely different. He was around the same height as Penny, his scales looking harder and the spines a little sharper. He also had a pair of wings sprouting from his back. He was wearing a pair of tan cargo shorts, a yellow t-shirt, and a black vest.

The portal closed after the two males walked through, the trio looking to our crowd in surprise at all of us. There was an awkward silence for a while before both the last and first person I expected broke it.

“Salutations Lex and friends!” Penny says after a bit, the others all snapping out of their trances. “Holy crap, Spike?!” Dusk says in shock, the drake looking to her and going wide-eyed. “Twilight?!” He immediately rushed over and looked Dusk over, her arm in particular.

“Actually I have been going by Dusk for a while. I take it Lex didn’t tell you about my injury?” Dusk asks, managing to yank her arm away from the drake. “No. Lex just said she and Trace were going to a different world to help her sister. I am just tagging along to relax after a contract I just finished.”

“Yeah, You can blame everything that’s happened lately on me Spike. I don’t know if Lex told you but I was the one that helped set up the course in Everfree. I think you were at the library at the time,” said Ed as he walked over to Lex’s group. “Well I know you want to do something Lex. Either blast my head off or punch me in the gut. Do your worst.”

I can see Lex thinking, and since I know she has a ton of different magic, I was curious. There was a tense silence as we all watched to see what Lex would do. I then see her eyes light up and an evil smile crosses her face.

“We might want to back up,” I say to the gathered crowd, everyone on edge about what Lex might do. She spreads her arms and two red spell matrices appear in her hands. “Requip! True Zangetsu!” I go wide-eyed as two blades appear in Lex’s hands, each similar in design but different sizes. It took me a second, but I remember the name of the swords being the same as Ichigo’s from Bleach, but I guess they are from the manga.

“OH, CRAP!” yelled the alchemist as he realized what was about to happen. She connects the two swords and lifts them over her head. “Getsuga TENSHO!” She slashes the swords downwards, sending a concentrated beam slash of magic towards Edward. There was a beat, then Ed fell into two clean pieces.

“HOLY SHIT LEX!” Me and Nat yell to our sister. “REALLY? YOU HAD TO CUT ME IN TWO! SOMEONE HELP ME REACH MY LEGS!” shouted Ed.

“I gotcha Ed.” Polearm says, helping the two pieces of Edward into one again. “Thanks, Pole. Okay now that we all have the anger out of our systems. Adam did you tell the Princess we were coming here today?” asked Ed as he sat on the ground adjusting his leg.

I go blank for a second before I facepalm hard. “I knew I was forgetting something!” I yell in annoyance. I go to grab a scroll from my bag, where I hear the pop of a teleportation spell nearby. All of us turn and see not only Celestia and Luna, but Cadance and Shining Armor have appeared, Luna and Shining in their armor.

“Adam! We sensed several extremely powerful magic sources appearing! What’s-..” Celestia stops herself as she sees our large group.

From the sudden running away to the sudden appearance of the whole royal family, except for Blueblood, of this world I can add up that we’re about to have a few issues on our hands. I get up from where I was sitting and return to my group.

“Let’s take it easy for right now guys. From what I can sense they’re more than a match for you three,” I say looking to Pole, Twi, and Dusk. “Luna stick close to me for now. Dusk and Nat stay on either side of her. If things get hairy I might have to bust out a few seals,” I say motion for them to form up.

“What should we do sir?” asked Pole moving in front of Twi. “I can take care of myself Polearm,” snorted Twi. “I want you two to stay back with Lex. She and I are the only ones here that can actually take on alicorns in a serious fight.” I say looking over to Adam and the royals.

They’re clearly shaken from our arrival here. One massively powerful Displaced is one thing, but in this case, we technically have four counting Luna. I thought he’d all of this taken care of all this. I started walking over to Adam’s group all the while making sure to keep Luna in between me, Nat, and Dusk.

“Nat, if things turn south, beyond all hell. Get Luna and the others to the nearest mirror and get the Library and stay there until I come to get you or have Luna bring you guys back to our Equestria. Got it,” I say a seriously as I can muster right now without looking back.

“Alright, Ed. But only if things go too far south. I am going to try and keep things calm between the royals.” Nat says as we walk up. “Hopefully it won’t. The only thing I’m worried about is them accusing Luna of being Nightmare Moon reborn.” I say hissing at the mere mention of that name. “Stay close to your teacher for now.”

I look to Nat out of the corner of my eye and he nods to this. “Stay here. I’m going over to talk and to see if we can smooth any bumps out,” I say as I walk up next to Adam. I can see the Royals are all clearly weary of my presence. “Sorry, Adam. I wanted to come and introduce us if you don’t mind,” I say place my hand on his shoulder. As I did I noticed he was shaking just a little.

“S-sorry Ed. Guess trying to listen to their fears shook me up a bit.” Adam says after a second before turning back to the Royals. “Anyways, like I was saying, I am going to be using your old castle to help my sister. Sorry, I haven’t told you, I was busy with training and getting everything ready.”

“Yeah, a little warning might’ve been nice,” Cadence says reluctantly. “Sorry again, but I am sure you guys would have been doing the same thing if your siblings were placed in the same positions,” Adam says, mostly to Celestia and Shining.

“You need to calm down a bit my friend. You weren’t nearly this nervous when we fought in our sparring match a few months back,” I said trying to calm his nervous but I think I only made this worse. It certainly got his Luna’s attention as she came forward a bit.

“You two had a sparring match? So...you are Edward Elric, correct?” She asks cautiously.

“Yes, I am Edward Elric the Fullmetal Alchemist,” I say placing arm at my waist bowing to the royals of this world. “I was in a bit of a bad mood at the time and Adam helped me with a bit of stress relief with a match. I’d just found out that my niece's wedding was in a few days you see and I’d just got back from a recent trip. He was very helpful. Even if I was holding back quite a bit, he’s a capable fighter,” I say patting Adam on the back. He only stiffens up more.

“Hey, Adam! You ok over there? You look like you did when you were caught in the middle of one of your sisters' arguments.” Nat calls from behind us, Adam looking to her with a face that screamed ‘I know, help!’

“Come on over here girls but slowly,” I call to Nat and the others. “Who have you brought with you Mr. Elric?” asked Celestia. “They’re my wife and her personal students/guards while we’ll be staying in your world,” I say in a serious tone.

Nat took point while Luna remained next to Dusk. “I do hope things are going well you two,” Luna said as she looked to her students. “That makes three of us Luna,” Nat responded.

They reached us in a few minutes and I could already tell that there were sparks flying. I saw the look in the other Luna eyes and it screamed rage. Celestia looked intrigued while Shining Armor had stepped in front of Cadence. I could see why after concentrating a bit hard. They were in their rights but I was in mine too. That’s when I saw the other Luna summon a sword, it looked like one of the ones Adam told me about from their duel. She lunged at my wife in a pure rage.

“You will not be allowed to exist here MOON!” shouted Adam’s Luna flying at mine. “AHHHH!” screamed my wife frozen in shock. Before anyone noticed I had changed into half demon form and caught the sword in my right hand. “This is my wife Princess. Not Nightmare Moon and I will not let anything happen to her,” I say crushing the sword in my hand. Dusk immediately steps in front of our Luna and blasted the other with a lavender lightning bolt. The other Luna tried to stand firm, only for Nat to stand next to Dusk and send her flying with some powerful black wind.

Luna bounced a couple times before stopping on her back. Before she can get up, Nat and Dusk appear in front of her, Nat pinning her arms to the ground with her wind magic, a fierce expression on her face.

“Listen up princess. I don’t care if you are one of the rulers of this version of Equestria. You mess with our magic teacher, you mess with us. Right Twilight?” Nat turns to her marefriend, who had an equally fierce look on her face. “Yeah. Mess with that Luna, you can see what me and Nat have been learning the past couple weeks.”

“Girls please stand down. I would like to prove that I am Luna and not Moon. Do you perhaps remember a pony from when you were younger by the name of SnowDrop?” asked Luna to her somewhat double. “SnowDrop was one of my closest friends over a thousand year ago,” answered the pinned princess. “What about the rhyme? Girls let her up please.”

I watched them let the other Luna up. I reverted back to my base form then looked to Adam whose jaw was on the ground at this point. “Watch this. We’ll have to get a real for your bottom jaw afterward.” I say resting my arm on his shoulder.

The girls let the other Luna sit up from her position on the ground and my Luna sat in front of her. The crowd behind us watch in rapt anticipation. I had a weird feeling this would be adorable, so I braced myself. The duo get on to their feet/hooves and crouch slightly, Cadence and both Twilight’s looking in surprise.

“Moonlight, Moonlight fireflies awake. Make a wish and do a little shake!” We all looked as they did their own version of the greeting dance, but instead of a shake at the end, they place their hands on the others hearts and close their eyes at the wish part. After a second, the duo opens their eyes again and I can tell Adam’s Luna is torn on the issue while my wife had a smile on her face.

“Well, that was adorable.” We turn to Dusk as she says that before she looks to some of the others. “Are all versions of me and Cadence like that when we greet each other?” There was a stunned silence before Spike and Rainbow burst out laughing.

“Wow, you got blunt Dusk!” Rainbow says mid-laugh. The others begin to join in the laughter at Dusk’s bluntness, the mare blushing. Nat stops laughing after a bit and pats her back with a smile. Rainbow and Cadence then look between them a couple times before Rainbows eyes widen.

“Wait we were right?!” She shouts in disbelief. Nat and Dusk blush and nod slowly, Rainbow smiling wide. “Woo! I was right!”

“Yes, Rainbow you were right about Nat and Dusk. I’m sorry to cut this short but we need to explain in a little more detail why we have gathered so many of the Displaced in one place. I’m sure that every pony that just arrived after we did would like for us to do so in a very formal manner, as would I. Even if this is a different Equestria Luna and I must still adhere to the ways of politics,” I say as a flash comes from my hands as I repair my clothes from Lex’s earlier attack.

“I for one would like to do it in the throne room or the library. Preferably somewhere where the likes of the Grimm won’t be a hassle. Our arrival here was like shooting off a magical typhoon to the bastards and then there were all of the negative emotions we all just had and still have.” I say looking to Adam.

“Let’s head to my place then. Ruby and Oscar should be finishing their patrol soon if these magic attacks weren’t a warning to them, so we should be fine from the Grimm. They’ll call if they don’t think they can handle anything.” Adam says, beginning to head into town.

Our now giant group follow the Huntsman, and we were quickly introduced to Legacy Tracer or just Trace, the stallion that came with Lex and had mostly just been hanging out on the sidelines. Lex told us she was taught how teaching him to use Reflector magic so he came by to help make sure the magic doesn’t exit the castle. Trace seemed like a pretty cool dude.

We started our walk back towards Adam’s place on the outskirts of Ponyville. While along the way his Luna had decided to chat with me a bit.

“So you were the one that Adam told me about,” said Luna. “Yea, sorry about dragging him away from his duties here. I couldn’t think of anyone that could match me in terms of strength in my world at the time that wasn’t related to the issues that was causing the stress at the time,” I say as a scratch my head while looking up. “It’s interesting to me that you were able to best Adam, but you were still able to seriously fight him without using your full power at the time,” added Luna in curiosity.

“You see Princess, I’d just spent a three month training period with the Elements and various other ponies in my world. It was to make them stronger and to help me get back the strength I’d lost before a was entombed in stone. I had only been free for two months before it and I wanted to get my strength back. After the training in my Equestria, I ended up spending another week in another Equestria that was, like it is for most of my kind. Similar in many ways but different in many others. I trained a smart ass kid named Oz. He’d recently become a Displaced himself and needed some help with his powers. In exchange for his training, I helped him clear what they call a dungeon. He gave me a few abilities in exchange for giving him the use of alchemy,” I continued to explain as we neared the edge of the forest.

“So it wasn’t long after you returned from this Equestria that you summoned Adam to our world for your stress relief,” Luna says raising her brow a bit. “Yes, it was also to see what I could do with my new skills, but the only one can be used for combat the other two let me regain any magic I use up. The last, let’s me dual wield any type of weapon in each hand, even two-handed weapons, except bows,” I say putting my hands behind my head as I look to my Luna who was having a discussion with Lex, probably about the Dark Library.

“What are these abilities and can the be taught to others?” asked Luna as she leaned in close eager to hear my response. “Mars Bane is the attack skill that lets me turn one strike into for at once for a single weapon, but it’s not limited to a set number of weapons either,” I say looking to her Celestia. “So you can essentially use as many weapons you want to strike for times a piece,” she said as she crossed her arms. “Yep and the magic recovery is called Mana Regen 1 & 2. One lets me recover magic just by walking the other by attacking. On top of those, I have my natural ability to taken the magic from my surroundings and that does include ponies and other living beings. But don’t worry as I have it turned off whenever I don’t need it.”

“And what was that form you took when you broke my sword earlier?” she asked with suspicion in her eyes. “That was a partial transformation of my demon form. I have a being the calls itself Malice that was formed of the collective hate myself and the souls trapped inside my body. They took over my body trying to free themselves a while back but was given a second chance by a void dweller after I died. I chose to come back to be with Luna and my family,” I say looking back to my wife again. “You love her to the point you’d do anything to keep her safe, even if it meant destroying part of yourself, wouldn’t you?” Luna asked with regret for her earlier actions.

“Yes, I would. She and my family mean everything to me. I do what I can to protect them and Equestria of course. The reason we’re here is to help Adam’s sister because Malice tried to devour her soul when they were trying to help me control my new power.,” I say letting out a sigh as we arrive at Adam’s house. There was a very familiar Huntress and Hunter standing out front.

“Hey Ruby, Oscar!” Adam waves to the duo, the young warriors looking to the group in surprise. “Hey Adam, what’s with the crowd?” Ruby asks. “You remember what I told you about my sister?”

“Yeah. Oh! I guess the group is here to help?” Oscar asks. “Yeah, we’re all here to help my little sis,” Nat says, walking up to the duo. “How about we all get introduced inside?” Adam suggests, opening the door. Everyone agrees and enters the rather nice looking house, those with shoes being reminded to take them off first.

“How about you guys head over to the living room and get introduced and give those who don’t know the rundown while I make some tea,” Adam says, placing his jacket and mask on the back of a chair and heading to the kitchen. Our large group all find places to sit, stand or lean. I look to Nat who seems to be thinking about something. I wonder what she’s up to.

It only took about two minutes for all of us to get properly introduced to one another, Ruby and Oscar being surprised that Lex and I are Adam’s sisters since none of us look alike, to which I countered with Ruby and Yang.

“Touché.” The young huntress says. The group laughs a little at this, me and Oscar in particular. “So, what exactly happened to you two anyway. Adam didn’t really tell us.” Oscar says, leaning against his chair. Adam came in a second later with a large kettle of tea and a lot of cups for all of us.

“It’s….kinda complicated,” I say to the others, grabbing some tea for myself and Dusk. ‘Hey Sis. If you want, I could explain.’ I hear Sora in my mind. ‘I’m not sure sis. I have gotten good at controlling the flow of the soul stone, but I am not sure how long I can keep you connected to my pool of magic and connected to the stone at the same time.’ I tell her in worry, the others confused by my silence.

“Ms.Basatin? Is something wrong?” I look to Oscar as he asks this, and notice his posture is more professional looking, and his voice is a little different. I guess this is professor Ozpin. I sigh after a second. “Alright, sis,” I whisper and focus on my magic pool and the flow of the soul stone. “Nat? What are you doing with your magic?” Lex asks, her eyes glowing a bit. After a second, I connect to Sora and let her take control, our pink magic aura flashing around us for a second.

“She’s letting me take control,” Sora answers, the others looking in shock. “Wait, Sora what are you doing? Trying to take control while using the soul,-“

“We aren’t using the soul stones magic. Nat connected to us to her pool of magic. Look, I don’t know how long I can stay in control so we will make this quick.” She says before turning to the group.

“To make a long and complicated story short, Ed summoned me, Nat and Dusk to his world to help him gain control of an alternate entity called Malice, that had threatened to take control of his body. Malice is a collective consciousness of negative souls and Ed’s self-hate. Me and Nat fought him to help him gain control of Malice, but during our confrontation, the demon tried to use a technique to devour our souls. He failed, clearly, but a side effect was that the connection between our souls began to fade. If I didn’t have this necklace around my neck, I would cease to exist. We’re here to make me a new body so I could become ‘real’.”

I begin to get tired from the strain of keeping Sora connected, so I ‘poke’ her with a Vector. “Looks like I’m out of time. I’ll see you guys later.” After she says that, she retreats into my mind and I can disconnect her from my magic. I take control and begin to pant from the effort.

“That….that was harder than I thought,” I say between pants, Dusk letting me rest against her. “I can imagine. I was just keeping an eye on your magic flow, and that took a lot of energy to maintain.” Lex says, her eyes no longer glowing.

“That would be the Soul Stone Lex. Think of it as an Equestrian Philosopher Stone. But I call them Sage Stone due to the fact they’re made out of pure magic. This one is made from strict;y soul magic and was the first successful one I made. It was the only thing I could think of that would provide Sora with a strong and constant supply of the necessary magic she needed to stay stable at the time. I don’t recommend tampering with it either,” Ed explained to my sister. There was still some tension there but she decided not to say anything on the matter right now.

“Ok, so your soul connection is fading, and you plan to make your sister her own body. That’s what you needed help getting the ‘necessary components’ were for?” Ruby asks.

“Allow me to explain Ruby. The ‘necessary components’ are not what you might be thinking. We are simply referring to the base elements found in the everyday human body. You can find them at any market really. The hard part is going to be in form Sora’s new body. I didn’t plan on just crafting it as it’s too dangerous if I were to simply use alchemy and too unstable if I were to use magic to clone her a body from Nat’s DNA. That’s where my special talent comes in. Over two thousand years ago I developed a combined technique I call alchemagic,” Ed pauses to see if anyone has a question before he continues.

“But, if you could do this anywhere, why come to this world? Why not summon Lex and Adam to your world?” Cadence asks, having only listened for the most part. “Because of Malice, Cadence. Whenever I access my Philosopher Stone I access its magical absorption ability. I drained a considerable amount of the magic from the area in question back home not enough to do damage it, but enough to drain it for a while that it needs a sufficient amount of time to regenerate the magic,” Ed explained looking to Lex.

“That is why you are using the old castle. Because after my fall into Nightmare and the double use of the elements, the castle grounds are neutral in magical energy.” Adam’s Luna says.

“Yes. The reason we have so many Displaced is one because they’re family and this decision involved their input, and two, because Lex and I possess the necessary skills and power to perform what we are calling ‘soul transmutation’. It’s a highly advanced skill that involves bonding the soul in question to a compatible living body. I still don’t know how stable Sora will be if we- No when we succeed.” Ed says looking to me. “Lex. Adam. I wanted to ask you two if you’d be willing to contribute to Sora’s gene pool?”

Me and my siblings look to each other and Ed in shock at this. We were all thinking we would just use me as the base for her form, but what would Sora look like if she had Adam and Lex’s DNA as well? Would she be human, Faunus, or a Diclonius? The three of us look to one another, speaking with just our eyes before Adam smiles to us.

“Sora is already my little sis. I think adding my genes would just make it more official.” He says with a smirk, Lex nodding. “Same. Considering we all consider ourselves family, I think Sora being the bridge that makes it official doesn’t sound too bad.”

“There is one more thing that could completely stabilize Sora’s form that I can do on my part, but it can only be done after the transmutation is completed. I’ll only do it if you four agree to it as well,” Ed says in a deadly serious tone as he walked over to the nearest window.

Me and my siblings all look to one another, not knowing what Ed has planned, but I hear someone else give their input. ‘I think we should go for it.’ I jump a little as Sora suddenly says that, the others looking worried before I point to my head. I quickly send an Invasion beam to Adam and Lex so they could hear her too.‘I mean, even if this is partially his fault, Ed is still doing everything he can to help make me better. I know he wouldn’t do something dangerous unless he believes it would either do good or if he didn't have a choice. I think we should trust him in this.’

I look to my siblings again, and they both sigh and nod. “Alright, Ed. Sora says we’re in. So we’ll let you do, whatever it is you have in mind.” Lex says after a second.

“I want to turn Sora into a Homunculus,” Ed said as he turned around to face all of the group. “I want to give her a piece of the stones of Malice and Compassion. To give her a balanced form. She won’t be a normal Homunculus either. Sora will have three of the Seals of Sin that I have. They would be Lust, Greed, and Envy. But like I said I’ll only do this if you four are absolutely sure.” Ed finished as his Luna came to his side. He told me he could make homunculus before but he’d never made one like this, but to see he’d be willing to part with a piece of himself to help Sora.

I look to the others, those who don’t know what a Homunculus is are a little lost, but they seem to get the implication. My siblings, Twilight, and Polearm though all are in complete shock. I sense inward and can tell if Sora was in control, our jaw would probably be in the center of the earth by now. I think about it myself, running the pros and cons of turning my sister into a homunculus with three of the seven sin powers. The fact is there are a ton of unknowns right now about what will happen to her if- when we merge her soul.

But….Ed was willing to go that far. I don’t know how much energy his stones are able to emit, but I know that taking pieces of them out to make Sora’s body is dangerous to him as well. I look to the ground a bit, rubbing the soul stone necklace as I try to wrap my head around this.

“If you're wondering how much power my stones can emit, think of the comparison this way Nat. A Sage Stone is a lesser version of Philosopher Stone that is bound to a specific magic type. The Soul Stone is the closest to a Philosopher Stone a Sage Stone can get. If it’s output is a stream of strong soul magic then a Philosopher Stone is an ocean of every type of magic. If Sora gets a Philosopher Stone then she will also inherit a dampened magic absorption ability allowing her to never have to run out of magic. Unless she’s under a very certain set of circumstances,” explained the alchemist motioning in the air.

I am not sure how long all of us just sat there, each of us running through the idea in our heads. I can tell Sora and Ed were all for the idea, but I knew Lex and Adam were torn on it, so I guess I was the tiebreaker. I try to run through the pros and cons again, thinking about how this would affect my sister and our family. After who knows how long, someone I wasn’t expecting spoke up.

“I’d do it.” We all turn to Ruby as she says this. “I mean, I may not understand everything that’s going on, but if Yang, Weiss or Blake were in danger like this, and the one responsible seriously wanted to help, I would take it. Maybe I am just being naive, but Ed doesn’t seem like a bad guy like Tyrian or Salem. He was literally fighting his inner demons, and you two voluntarily stood in the crossfire.”

“She’s right. I’ve met my fair share of heroes turned villains, and this guy is as legit as I can tell.” Qrow says, taking a swig of his flask. I think for about a minute before taking a breath. “Alright. Let’s do it Ed.”

“If that’s your final answer Nat then I’ll do everything in my power. Now let’s start going over what I need everyone to do on their individual parts. First, we have to start on Sora’s new body and place where Lex and I can set up a lab for its construction.” stated Ed pulling a few books from the satchel he’d brought with him.

“Adam, we going to need the castle Grimm free by the week's end. The Twilights will be in charge of helping with the mapping the flows of the magic around the castle. I’ll be the one to pull Sora’s soul from Nat’s body and to place it in her own. While Lex does the fine tuning with her Seith magic I’ll be doing the same with my magic weaving to set up Sora’s body to accept the Philosopher's Stone. Then we step back and I give her the Stone and we see if you can overcome it,” said Ed, letting out a sigh.

All of us nodded at the plan, Dusk and Twilight taking out their own scrolls and beginning to write out the plans. Ruby, Oscar, Rainbow and Penny group up to talk about how they are going to defend the castle from the Grimm while Lex, Spike, and Trace all talk about how they are going to help. I am left with my sister in a sense, letting my mind wander.

‘No matter what happens, I promise I’ll protect you Sorano.’

‘Ditto, sis.’

“This starts the operation. Lex, You and I have materials to gather. Nat, you go ahead and prep a lab setup for drawing blood, hair, and etc. If you don’t mind Adam we’ll be borrowing the basement for the time of our stay.” Ed says assigning us our various tasks.

Once ready, we all decide to start tomorrow as it was already getting late. The princesses gave us permission to stay at the town hall, where the basement doubles as a shelter for our stay. We all head into town, except for Ruby, her uncle, and Oscar, who remained home. We were lucky in that there weren’t that many ponies out at the time, those who were only slightly shocked at our group.

We made it to townhall without any problems. The princesses talked to Mayor Mare, giving her an abridged version of what’s going on, and telling her we are all staying in the basement. It didn’t take long for all of us to get situated in our respective sleeping areas. I am not sure how long I spent just sitting on my bunk when Dusk walked up and sat next to me, concern evident on both our faces.

“Hey. It’ll be ok. Ed won’t let us down. We just need to do our part, and we can get your sister her body, and head home.” She says, bringing me into a side hug. I smile slightly and nuzzle her cheek. “Thanks, Dusk.”

“Alright, I think we should all get some sleep. We have a lot of work to do the next couple of days, so we’ll need all the energy we can get.” Polearm says, having changed into his sleeping clothes. Everyone agrees and got into their beds, some alone, some with their respective others.

Dusk and I rest next to each other as Twilight turns off the lights, letting all of us rest. We have a lot of work ahead of us.