As the train pulled into Canterlot station, our group got all our carry on luggage and prepared to depart. The doors to the train opened and we were the first ones out. I don’t want anyone to think I am using some wierd magic with no aura so I grab Rarity’s cart and pull it behind us as we walk into the city. Canterlot looks like a combination of a renaissance era castle town in layout and a modern-ish era town in terms of technology.

’Wow. This place actually look pretty cool!’ Sora says within my mind. I look around us, seeing the residents of Canterlot. The ‘elites’ of ponykind. I fully expected to hear some sooty and snarky comments on our entourage. But...

“Oh my, who is that young mare?”

“Her outfit! So telling and dark. Nice contrast.”

“Who knew pink and black would work so well together?”

“Maybe young Miss Rarity made them for her?”

I was shocked. Of course I did hear one or two snarky comments, but most were nice and mostly about my outfit. This was really surprising. I fully expected a city full of nothing but stick-up-their-ass nobles who only care for their own money and power.

And yet...

“Stop! Thief!” I quickly look across the street, seeing a unicorn stallion in a black jacket and blue jeans running with a navy blue purse in his hands. I quickly look to the girls and nod, Rarity taking the handle of her wagon, before I rush towards the theif.

The thief banked down an alley with me following close behind. I see him stop around the corner, likely having noticing me and thinking I was an easy catch. Oh, how wrong he was. I step closer, my footsteps echoing through the alley, when he chose to try and jump me. Only to find an empty alley.

“What the? Where?” He says aloud, not noticing me as I stay above him with my Vectors. Before he can do anything I drop down and grab the purse then kick him in the gut, causing him to stagger back. He looks to me in hate and rage. “You just messed up bitch. I am going enjoy having my fun with you.” He says threateningly, taking out dual pocket knives.

‘He should not have said that.’ I think, safe within my own mind.

”You just sealed your fate.” Sorano says coldly to the stallion with the Lucy glare, causing him to flinch slightly. Before anything can happen, Sora sends a few Vectors at him, resulting in two loud ’CRACKS’ as his arms are bent the wrong way. He screams in pain and shock, falling on his ass. Sora walks forward, standing above him in a very familiar scene.

“You bucking bitch!” He yells, Sora wrapping two Vectors around his throat to shut him up, before going down to every males one weak spot, and stabbing in. The result was a high pitched squeal, one that more than a few stallions recognized and cringed at.

Sora quickly thows the squirming stallion into a wall, knocking him unconscious. ‘Don’t you think that was a little much?’ I ask as we switch. The only response I get was silence and an odd feeling of accomplishment.

I walk out of the alley with the unconscious and bleeding stallion over my shoulder, using my Vectors to keep his blood off my outfit. I am quickly greeted by a trio of shocked royal guards, one of each pony tribe.

“Somepony looking for a purse snatcher?” I ask, gesturing to the unconscious stallion on my shoulder. The guards quickly take him, then cringe at his injuries. They look to me in complete shock. “What? A girl needs to protect herself against a knife wielding thief.” I say, handing the guards his weapons.

I hear someone clears their throat behind me. Quickly turning, I am greeted by our group, most cringing in pain for the stallion, with two new addition, who I recognize instantly. An older couple, the stallion having a very well kept and fancy looking hairdo, moustache and monocle, wearing a business suit. Next to him is a mare with a white coat and flowing pink mane and light purple eyeshadow, wearing a light pink dress and a sapphire necklace.

The two most respected nobles by both other nobles and commoners alike, Fancy Pants and Fleur De Lis.

“Oh, hey everypony. I got the theif and the purse.” I say then look to Fleur. “I believe this is your madam?” I ask holding out the purse for her.

“Yes, thank you dear.” She says taking her purse back and checking inside, making sure everything was still there. “Oh, where are my manners. My name is Fleur De Lis and this is my husband, Fancy Pants. What is your name?” She introduces them and asks.

I do a small curtsy and introduce myself. “My name is Natali Basatin. Please just call me Nat.” The duo look at me with appreciation and then to my outfit.

“I must say, your outfit is certainly unique. I have yet to find anypony who can pull off black and pink so well, aside from my wife of course.” Fancy says, earning a small nuzzle from the unicorn mare. I just chuckle at them.

“Well it was nice meeting you two, but me and my friends have to head to the palace to meet with the princess.” I tell them, the duo not even looking surprised.

“Of course dear. If you ever find yourself in Canterlot again, be sure to drop by for some tea. Thank you again for catching that ruffian.” Fleur says as I rejoin the group.

“I’ll hold you up to it.” I say jokingly, both me and Fleur giggling and Fancy chuckling. “Farewell for now you two.”

With that, our group continues on to the palace, luckily without furthur interruptions. The girls were asking what I did to that thief, and I had Sora tell them the truth. They were of course shocked, but changed their tune pretty quick when Sorano repeated what he said.

After a few minute we arrived at the palace gates, and it was just as impressive in person as in the show. After a second of talking to the guards, the eight (nine) of us walk into the palace proper. It was all sorts of amazing, the carpets, the painting in the hall, even the damn pottery!

”Ok, I will admit. This place is pretty awsome.” Sorano says aloud, the other giggling somewhat at our reaction. A couple of royal guards come by and take the girls and Spike’s luggage to their rooms while we continue on into the palace. We walk for maybe five minutes before I literally bump into the last pony I wanted.

‘Prince’ Blueblood. He is wearing an expensive looking suit and pants with a blue tie and a golden watch, his blond hair still done up in the ‘better than thou’ way as the Gala. I fall down onto my rear with a ‘Nyu’ and look up to the spoiled brat of a prince that made fun of the main six at the Gala, which if the timeline is similar, wasn’t that long ago. The girls look to him in disgust, and in Rarity and AppleJack’s cases, hate.

That’s what made the words coming out of his voice all the more shocking.

“Oh dear. Are you ok miss?” He asks, in genuine concern. “Here.” He holds a hand out for us. I carefully take his hand as he helps me stand up.

“Thanks?” I say, slightly confused by him. I look to the others, seeing most of them in the same kind of shocked confusion as me. He looks to where I am looking and locks eyes with AppleJack and Rarity.

“Miss AppleJack, Miss Rarity. What are you two doing here?” He asks, the mare in question coming out of their shocked states and turning from him to walk back down the hall. I look at see Blueblood with a remorseful expression on his face. I quickly wrap a Vector around AJ and Rarity and turn them back to us.

Blueblood looks to me in confusion. I just nod to the two mares held in my grip. He sighs, “I see I owe you two an explanation.” I put the two mare onto the ground and give them a ‘I’m watching you’ sign to make sure they don’t do anything.

“Miss AppleJack, I apologize for how I spat out your confections and made a scene about it, but I didn’t really have a choice in the matter.” He says, the girl brows raising. “At least not the first part. I am allergic to cinnamon. If I had eaten your apple confection I could have gone into anaphylactic shock. If that were to happen after I had eaten one of the apple families products, what do you think the press would have done?”

”They would have thought AppleJack tried to poison you.” Sora answers before the girls can think, all their eyes widening at the implications.

“Indeed. If that were to happen, the apple family could be arrested for attempted regicide at worst, or the locals may believe their products are dangerous for their health at best.” He continues, “and if I just spit it out, other may think something was up and would try to use it against me in the ‘game’ of nobility. The other reason I acted like that was to not break the ‘persona’ of the spoiled brat that only cares for himself.”

Rarity’s eyes widen at the lat part. Blueblood turns to her to explain.

“Miss Rarity, you are not the first mare to try and have a fairy tale romance with me. The problem is that most of the others that have tried that only want to be with me so they can get into the royal family and use their position for their own purposes.” He says, the others looking at him with pity.

”Damn, that has to suck. So you act like a complete and total cock as to make any selfish mare just looking for a quick ticket into royalty to avoid you.” Sorano finishes. Blueblood looks to us and nods.

“Correct, I don’t want to risk any mare just pretending to be nice to get to me. I didn’t actually know who any of the Elements looked like before the Gala.” He continues, before looking away with a blush and rubbing the back of his head, “besides, I am...alreading taken.”

All of us look at him in absolute shock, hearing that ‘the spoiled prince of Equestria’ was in a secret relationship. The girls are about to bombard him with questions, when a batpony night guard comes around the corner to us and locks eyes with Blueblood.

She was wearing the usual silver armour of the night guards with a scalet mane and tail and dark blue fur with red slit eyes.

I look from the guard and Blueblood a few times, noticing subtle blushes on both their faces, before turning to him and pointing the guard. He just looks to me and nods, the girls eyes widening in complete shock.

“Umm...Sergeant Scarlet Sky reporting?” She says cautiously, looking between all the girls worried. I sent a few Vectors onto the girls to keep them in place.

“You two might wanna leave. By the way, my name is Natali, and I have a second person in my head named Sorano.” I tell him with a carefree smile. He looks to me in confusion, before remembering when my voice and eyes change.

“Right. Come on Scarly.” He says as he and the mare leave, the batpony giving me an appreciative smile. The group gets back to their sences and tries to follow before realizing they are being help by my Vectors. The group look at me indignantly, to which I just shrug and turn, carrying the group for a minute before putting them down.

“Well, looks like you have to re-think your positions on the prince.” I say with an amused smile. The girls look to one another, Rarity and Applejack still shocked by his explanation for the Gala, the others from seeing his marefriend.

After another minute we make it to the door to the throne room, the guard going in to announce our arrival. He comes back and tells us we can go in a meet the princess.

We walk in, I see the literal red carpet leading up the throne and I see the window showing the girls defeating Nightmare Moon. Looking forward I see one alicorn sitting on the throne and one unicorn standing at guard next to her. Princess Celestia is as I expected to look like, her three toned mane flowing in the non existent breeze, wearing a long white and gold silk dress and white gloves.

The unicorn next to her had a brighter white coat and a two toned blue mane. His armour was purple with gold accents. On his back was a steel trident, with a blue handle.

Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal guard, and older sister of Twilight Sparkle.

“Princess! BBBFF!” Twilight yells, running up to the two ponies, Shining going down and hugs her.

“Twily!” He yells, giving his little sister a hug, the girls looking on confused. Twilight lets her brother go and walks up and hugs Celestia, the princess retuning the hug with her arms and wings.

“My faithful student, I cannot thank you enough for defeating Discord.” She says, before Twilight backs up shaking her head somewhat.

“No princess. I couldn’t have beaten Discord without the help of you, Spike, the girls, and Natali and Sorano.” She says, Celestia and Shining looking back at the girls and Spike, before continuing on and seeing me.

“Oh. Is this your new friend you told me about Twilight?” Celestia asks walking up to us. Before she can talk I quickly raise my hand stopping her.

“Just a moment your majesty.” I look to Twilight and the girls. “You guys think I can release Selene now?” The group tilt their heads in confusion, before nodding. I take out Selene’s Dusk ball and look to the princess. “You may want to back up.”

Celestia listens and walks back to Twilight and Shining Armor, the captain in question tensing somewhat. “Ok, come on out Selene!” I toss up the ball up, Selene soon coming out an yawning.

”Finally! I was getting worried for a second there.” Selene says, quickly hopping up me, onto my shoulder and begins to nuzzle my cheek. I just chuckle at her and scratch behind her ears.

“What.” I look to the princess who is looking at us in utter confusion and shock.

“Princess Celestia, meet Selene the Zorua. She is a Pokémon. Twilight has the notes.” I say, the sun princess turning back to her student as she pulls out the notes on Selene she had been taking since Ponyville. Celestia quickly looks through the notes, in particular the notes on the Duak ball, Shining Armor walking up and looking at the Zorua.

“Heh, she is kinda cute. So you are the new friend that Twily made that helped her with her friends?” he asks looking us over. He sees that we have no weapons and relaxes somewhat.

“Well yes, but it wasn’t just me.” I say, the princess looking back at me.

“Yes, Twilight said it was with the help of you and somepony named Sorano. Where are they?” She asks curiously, looking past us for anyone else.

”Right here.” Sora says with a smirk, the princess and Shining looking at us in shock.

“Say what now?” The guards asks lamely, causing Sorano to laugh at his reaction.

”Hehe, you should see your guys's faces right now. But anyways, my name is Sorano. I am Natali’s second personality and also her unofficial little sister.” Sorano explains. Princess Celestia soon gets right in our face, looking at us with narrowed eyes.

“Twilight?” She asks.

“Don’t worry Princess! Sora is not like Nightmare Moon! She was created when Nat nearly died in an accident as a defence mechanism, like an imaginary friend, before somehow advancing into being her own being.” Twilight frantically explains, seeing we may be in trouble. Celestia’s eyes widen and she leans back in shock after hearing Twilight say I nearly died.

“Is this true?” She asks the others, each of them stepping up and agreeing, Spike coming to stand by our side and Selene jumping down and getting into a defensive position in front of us.

Celestia looks to us in sadness and walks forwards, Sorano tensing and getting ready to fight. She sees this and stops a few feet from us. “You said you are young Natali’s sister?” She asks.

”Yes, I am. And I don’t care what anyone says about me. But if someone messes with my big sis, than may the heavens above come to help them.” she says with determination, before I quickly take over and stare the sun princess.

“That goes for me too. Anyone messes with my little sis, good luck getting away. And I mean ANYONE.” I tell her with a fierce expression on my face. We stay there for a new minutes, the princess of the sun staring into our eyes, the both of us staring right back, before a warm smile breaks across her face.

“I see it. The two of you, in spite of sharing a body, know the warmth and meaning of sisterhood.” She droops her head and sighs sadly, “I envy you two. If only I was like the two of you a thousand years ago.” She says, likely thinking back to the Nightmare Moon incident. We walk up to the taller mare and lay a Vector on her shoulder in support.

“That was the past princess. You have your sister back now. Just make sure the past doesn't repeat itself.” I tell her with a smirk, Celestia looking confused that she feels a hand on her shoulder, but we have both our by our sides. Before she has a chance to question it, the doors to the throne room bursts open and Blueblood runs in.

“Auntie! Captain!” He yells running up to us. I see he is alone, and I begin to worry that something has happened to his marefriend.

“Blueblood, what’s wrong?” Celestia asked worried.

“One of the gardeners tending to the hedge maze said she say some kind of monster wandering around. She says it is pretty small, maybe two feet tall but with a large mouth that can take an arm clean off.” He explains quickly, everyone in the room shocked at the news.

“Is it some kind of monster Discord Created to cause mayhem after his imprisonment?” Shining asks, to which the prince merely shrugs.

“I don’t know, the gardener ran as soon as she saw it, and she said it ran back into the maze. I thought it would be best if I told you two first while Scarlet stays with the gardener.” He says, the girls looking worried, while I am just confused.

‘Discord didn’t make a chaos creature in the story, plus we would have felt something if he did. Chaos magic is very distinctive compared to normal magic.’ I begin to think and come up with a plan.

“Everypony,” all eyes turn to me, “I think it would best for us to investigate. If it is a Discord construct, then we will need the elements to seal it.” I turn to the prince, “lead the way, we will follow.” He nods and begins to leave the throne room the rest of us in tow.

After a few minutes we make it to the edge of the maze, the gardener and Scarlet with us too. The gardener in question, named Hedge Length, described the creature just like how Blueblood did, having calmed down a lot since then.

“Alright here is the plan.” Twilight begins, a map of the maze in front of us, “we will enter the maze in teams as to make sure we have a fighting chance against this thing. The first team is me, Pinkie and Fluttershy. We will take the east of the maze. The second team is Natali/Sorano, Spike, Blueblood and Scarlet, you five will take the center. The last team is AppleJack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash. You three will that the west section of the maze. Each team has a unicorn to send a magical signal flare to the others if you find the thing.” She turns to the princess and her brother, “You two will stay out here in case it comes by the front to trap it.”

Everone nods to her and get into their teams and ventures into the maze, Blueblood taking the lead our group. After a few minutes of nothing we make it to the little garden at the center of the maze, complete with a fountain. Our group walks around, Spike going up to the fountain and thinks, trying to think of a way to find the unknown creature.

“This thing said to be less than half my height. There are too many places for it to hide in this dang maze, let alone the castle. Where could it be?” He sits on the edge of the fountain and thinks, not noticing as a creature he has never seen before walks out of the maze and towards him.

Spike sits there thinking as the rest of us look in some of the hiding places around the area, when he feels a light tapping on his arm. Turning, his slit green eyes meet red as he looks at a two foot tall yellow and dark grey creature with what looks like a giant second mouth attached to her head. They stay there, staring at each other for a second before Spike yells out, startling the creature.

“AAAAHHHH!!!/MAAAAWWWW!!!” The duo yell out before losing balance and falling into the fountain.

“Spike! What's wrong?” I yell out running out to the fountain as Spike jumps out of the fountain in a panic.

“T-t-the creature! It is right there!” He yells pointing at the fountain. Blueblood get ready to launch the flare into the air, before being interrupted by a splash and the creature in question jumping out, panting for breath. Seeing it, my eyes widen in shock.

“Mawile?” I say in shock, the other looking to me.

“You know that thing?” Scarlet asks, tensing as the creature gets up to look at us.

“Not personally. It’s a Pokemon, like Selene here.” I say, pointing to the fox in question as she looks from atop my head.

“Wow, you weren’t kidding when you said they come is varying shapes and sizes.” Spike says in surprise. Looking at the steel type Pokemon, I notice that it is shivering slightly, probably from falling into the fountain. I quickly dig into the first aid kit that was given to each team beforehand and take out a towel. Walking to the Mawile it tenses, likely expecting me to attack.

“Don’t worry. I promise I won’t hurt you.” I say softly, Selene jumping down and nuzzling my arm as a show of trust. It relaxes somewhat, and I get closer and begin to dry her off.

“Maw Mawile?” My aura reader beeps, before turning on and translating “Your not going to hurt me?” she asks, to which I shake my head before looking at her stats.

Mawile: level 8
HP: 26
ATK: 22
DEF: 23
SP.ATK: 19
SP.DEF: 20
SPD: 14
Attacks: Astonish, Fairy Wind, Iron Defence, Bite.

“So she isn’t going to attack us right?” Scarlet asks, coming up to me with the boys behind her.

”I never even attacked anyone! I just walked up wanting to ask where I am and suddenly that wierd bipedal Ponyta freaked out and scared me!” Mawile says with me translating. The others look surprised by this misunderstanding.

“So how did you get here Mawile?” Spike, of all of us, asks, clearly curious. Mawile just walks up to a bench and sits down.

”I am not a hundred percent sure myself. I was in Glittering cave in Kalos, just hanging out with a couple of Geodudes and Cubone when a local Garchomp started going nuts, yelling that someone touched his hoard. He started attacking the area and we had to run and take cover. I ended up going into a section of the cave I never have before. After looking around a bit and ending up finding this weird sphere then there was a sudden light and boom! Here is was.” she explains, me translating and explaining the other Pokemon mentioned.

“Do you still have this sphere you found?” Blueblood asks. Mawile nods, turning and opening her other mouth. The others tense slightly, before seeing what looks like a marble on her ‘tongue’. Blueblood picks it up the marble and looks at it though the light. “Do you recognize this Natali?” I take the marble from him and again my eyes widen.

“Th-this is a Mawilite!” I say in shock, Mawile’s eyes widening as well, the others looking at us in confusion. I look to them and realize I have to explain.

“You see, most Pokemon can go through spontaneous extreme evolution, increasing their strengths and changing their shapes. Some, like Mawile, can evolve even furthur than they normally can, increasing their powers and changing appearances, but only for a limited time.” I explain, the others eyes widening at the prospect.

After they seem to get their minds back, they look to the newer Pokemon. “So what now? She isn’t causing any problems. What should we do with her?” Spike asks, each of us, Mawile included, think for a moment when Selene notices my bag glowing slightly.

”Nat, your bag is glowing.” she says. I quickly check my bag and find a new ball in it. Taking it out, it is black with with a red band around the top and the button and sides are bronze coloured. A Luxury ball. I look to Mawile with her looking back at me.

“I won’t force you Mawile, but if you want, you can come with me and join my team.” I tell her holding out the luxury ball for her. Mawile looks to the ball and then to me with a thoughtful expression, before walking up and putting her hand on the button, the red beam coming out and retrieveing the new Pokemon. The luxury ball shakes three times before blinking and stopping.

I smile and look to Selene, the Zorua smiling up at me before I toss the new ball into the air and releasing our new partner. “Welcome aboard Mawile!” I say, the newly captured Pokemon jumping into my arms for a hug. “So do you want a nickname?” I ask, to which she nods and we begin to think.

“How about Topaz?” Blueblood suggests, Mawile thinking about it, before smiling up at him and nodding “Maw!” She says smiling. I smile to the small Pokemon and put her on my shoulders like a kid on their parents shoulder.

“Welcome to the family Topaz.”