Selene’s POV:

The entire dining hall sat in complete awe and silence for almost a solid minute. All eyes were fixed on the new pair that had just appeared out of nowhere and were now serving us tea. The princesses stared wide eyed in disbelief that anything could sneak up on them and take them by surprise like this. AJ’s jaw was hanging open so wide that I’m surprised it hadn’t hit the table. Pinkie didn’t seem to mind their presence one bit as she munched on the fruit of her fruit bowl as the two placed another cup of tea before Twilight.

“Honey?” The woman asked twilight as she held the honey over her tea, snapping most of us out of our state of shock.

“Umm, uh, no thank you?” Twilight stuttered as the woman nodded her head and placed the honey back on the tray as the man poured another cup. Finally Luna got up from her seat and took a defensive stance facing the two.

“Who are you and how did you get into the castle?!” She nearly yelled at the two as the other soon got up to face the two.

“We are where we are need.” The woman said as she poured honey into another filled cup of tea.

“And needed where we are.” The man finished as he placed the cup in front of rarity.

“Don’t try to evade the question! I demand you to explain who you are!” She yelled at the pair who simply continued to pass out cups of tea with honey.

“Why do you ask what you already know?”

“Or is it just that your hearing isn’t what it used to be?”

“What?!” Luna snarled at the insult.

“If you had been paying attention…”

“You would have heard our introduction.” The two spoke as they placed a cup of tea in front of Gaige while Luna snarled at the two.

“Princess Luna, I think you might want to let me handle this.” Jack spoke up with a groan as he rose from his seat.

“And why is that?” Luna questioned, not taking her eyes off the pair.

“Because unlike the rest of you…

“…He knows who we are.” The pair spoke and all eyes turned to Jack, including Luna’s.

“Well I know enough about you to not like either of you.” Jack said as the woman groaned and the man smirked.

“Told you so.” The man said with a grin while the woman set down the tray of cups to pull out a pad and paper and scribbled something down on it before putting it away. “And for once it WAS as satisfying as I had imagined.” The man said as he poured another cup.

“Yes well, I suppose there is next time for me…” The woman said as she added honey to the cup.

“Shouldn’t the two of you be helping Booker and Elizabeth?” Jack asked in an annoyed tone.

“We would…”

“…If they were where they were supposed to be.”

“Just like you three are not where you are supposed to be.” The pair spoke as they looked between me, Jack, and Gaige.

“Um, Jack how do you know these two?” I finally asked as I looked to Jack.

“They’re the twins from Bioshock infinite. They appear randomly throughout the game giving advice through riddles…” Jack explained.

“Hold on a minute, you mean to tell me these two are from another video game from your world?” Twilight asked and Jack nodded.

“Close but not quiet…” The woman spoke up.

“We are the same twins you think us to be…”

“But from our own world and not your game.”

“What’s that suppose ta mean?” AJ asked the pair.

“There are some many different worlds and universes…”

“Each one slightly different from the last…”

“But all of them are real and infinite in number…”

“And now for some reason…”

“They’re beginning to merge.” The two explained one after the other.

“What do you mean by merging? Are you saying that other worlds are becoming one in the same?” Luna asked as she to a less defensive stance when she was sure the two weren’t a threat.

“Exactly. This world…”

“And many others are suddenly becoming one…”

“By the force of someone…”

“Or something.”

“Wait a second, you’re saying you guys don’t even know what’s causing this to happen?” Jack asked.

“No, we don’t…”

“At least not yet.” The duo explained before a ringing sound echoed from the man’s coat pocket. Reaching into an inner pocket of his coat he pulled out an alarm clock and stopped it’s ringing.

“It appears our time meeting will need to be cut short…” He said as the woman reached into her own coat pockets and pulled out two small boxes.

“But before we go…” She said as she approached Celestia with the two boxes opening them to reveal to necklaces. One with the proud head of an eagle and the other with the strong head and horns of a bull.

“Eagle…”

“Or the bull?” The two asked as the woman presented the two necklaces to Celestia.

“Is this a gift of good will?” Celestia asked the two who exchanged a glance before answering.

“Of sorts…” The man said. “Now, the eagle…”

“Or the bull?” the two said as Celestia looked over the two necklaces once more before pointing to the one with an eagle.

“The eagle.” She said as she levitated it out of its box and the woman gave a bow before returning to the man.

“I was expecting the bull this time…” the woman mumbled just low enough that not many could hear as the two walked to the door.

“If you’re going to be a sore loser I won’t be doing this again…” The man replied just as quietly back as the two walked out of the room.

“Halt! We still have questions for thee!” Luna yelled after the two as she ran to the door behind the two, the doors swinging wide open only for the empty hall to be revealed without a trace of the two.

“Don’t bother trying to chase them, only they know where or when they’re going to be next.” Jack said with a groan. “Those two are a mystery in a league of their own…”

“So what? We just let them leave?” Dash asked and Jack nodded with a heavy sigh.

“Trying to catch those would just be a waste of our time. I say we just try to put things together with what they gave us.” Jack said as Luna took her seat at the table again. “For example, what they were talking about, a bunch of worlds starting to become one with each other.”

“Sounds down right crazy to me.” AJ spoke out. “How in Equestria can anything pull off somethin’ like that? And let’s say something can make that happen, why haven’t we noticed anything like that happening yet? Just sounds to me like a bunch of crazy talk.”

“Well I know for a fact those two don’t really have a reason to lie to us, they don’t gain anything from it.” Jack said as he leaned back in his seat. “Maybe the changes happen in small portions and are days apart from each other. But we can’t really do anything about that until it happens.”

“So what we just simply wait until something happens?” Gaige asked and Jack nodded his head.

“Until something happens we don’t know what’s going to happen or how. For now all we can do is fix the city up and then wait for something to happen.” Jack groaned as he ate some fruit from his bowl.

“I cannot see any other course of actions that we can take.” Celestia spoke up as she began to eat her fruit as well. “For now our main focus shall be on restoring canterlot and then we will brace ourselves for anything else that may happen. Stellar Sheen, see to it that your men are always on the tip of their hooves at all times.” She said looking to the armored unicorn who gave her a salute.

“Of course your majesty.” He said which brought a soft smile before turning to Gaige.

“Let us change things to a different topic. Gaige why don’t you tell us about yourself?” Celestia asked which caused Gaige to look up from her fruit bowl.

“Well there really isn’t much to say about me other then I’m a Vault hunter now and that I like technology stuff.” She said with a shrug.

“Pardon if this bring back any bad memories for ya’… But what happened to yer arm?” Applejack asked which only made Gaige giggle.

“It’s alright and well as for my arm I just cut it off and replaced. No biggie’”. Gaige said happily while the ponies stared at her dumbfounded.

“You cut off your own arm?!” Rarity nearly shrieked.

“Well not on purpose at first, it happened when I was working on my DT project. I accidently cut my arm on some sheet metal, not that deep though, maybe just half-way through the bone. So I was going to treat it with an insta-health but then I realized that having a cybernetic limb would work wonders for my DT project so I said: “To heck with it” and sliced the rest of my arm off with a particle saw. A Few hours and a couple of pints of blood later I had this baby hooked up and ready to do work!” Gaige explained with a grin as she gave her robot arm a couple of swings. All the ponies stared at her completely stunned, even the princesses seemed to be a least creeped out by her story.

“You mentioned a ‘DT project’. What was that?” Twilight said quickly, trying to change the subject.

“Well DT stands for…You know what how about I just show you.” Gaige said as she got up from her seat as she extended her robotic arm out palm opened. She then began to raise her hand higher as she closed her palm into the form of a fist. In front of her a cloud of what looked like blue squares and boxes formed with the massive out line of her giant robot formed before solidifying into solid matter. “Say hello to Deathtrap!”

“Hellooooooo~!” Pinkie said happily as she waved at the robot from her seat, making me hold back a laugh while the other ponies stared in awe at the floating robot torso.

“Pretty cool huh? I built him from scratch myself.” Gaige bragged with her held high with a smirk on her face.

“Ah’ve never seen anything like it…” AJ mumbled and Gaige seemed to hold her head up even higher.

“Thank you I try.” She said smiling as Deathtrap scanned the room filled with ponies. “I made him for my school’s science fair, and would have won if that little miss daddies perfect angle Marcy didn’t rip off my idea and buy off those stupid judges!” Gaige said her voice dripping with anger and frustration as Deathtrap broke back down the same way he came to be. “Anyways, so long as I have this mechanical arm I can call Deathtrap at any time as long as he’s done recharging.” She said before there was a knock at the dining room door.

“I’m sorry your majesties, but I’m afraid that the paper work can’t be pushed back any further and I need to ask you to return as soon as possible.” A mare with glass said as she looked out from around the door and Luna gave a soft sigh.

“We’ll be right there Mrs. Quill, ready our stamps and ink wells.” Celestia said as the mare nodded and closed the door behind her. “It would seem our duties as princesses can no longer be put off. Miss Gaige if you wouldn’t mind coming with us, we still have question to ask of you if you would be so kind.” She said as she and Luna rose from their seats.

“Sure no prob.” Gaige said as she got up and followed the princesses out of the dinning while everyone went back to eating their fruit bowls and making small conversations. As we all finished our bowls we decided not to be a burden for the castle staff and made our way out of the dining room. As I passed where Gaige was sitting I took note that her food bowel looked almost completely untouched.

‘Hm, I wonder if the castle staff does room service…’ I wondered as I thought about how much Gaige must have been starving by now since she was the one who suggested we eat in the first place.

Author's Note

So yeah, sorry about the massive gap in updating, lots of crazy irl stuff going down. i recently got a job and i'm getting ready for my next semester of college so my time to write has been reduced by quiet a bit and some of the times i did have time to write i just wanted to pass out from exhaustion. but i refuse to let my stories go unfinished so keep an out for future updates!

THE SHOW WILL GO ON!