The next day and while Bryan sleeps with Megan Ace's energetic nature has finally begun to cause problems for the hospital staff.

"Come on! I've been holding back for days! Get these blasted bandages off me or so help me I'll cut them off myself!" shouted Ace. Ever the active pony he can only take so long sitting still for a reason he doesn't like.

"Captain Crimson Moon!" Nurse Redheart bellowed. "If you don't sit still we can't asses your injuries to tell whether or not we should take them off. Now sit still or I'll call Doctor Bone Saw in here to hold you down!" She said glaring at Ace with her blue eyes filled with annoyance at her most troublesome patient aside from Rainbow Dash.

He settled into a sitting position with a pout.

Nurse Redheart rolls her eyes "Thank you captain, now let's see about those bandages." She went about checking his injuries. Nurse Redheart spoke up after a few minutes of examining him. "Well I have some good news, we can take most of the bandages off, but we still have to leave your left wing bound for the time being. It still has to heal."

There is a knock at the door as she begins to remove the bandages. With an annoyed huff she trots to the door and opens it to reveal Nurse Coldheart standing in the doorway. After a brief exchange with the other nurse she says to Ace. "I've just been informed you have a visitor as well captain, a black pegasus." She removed Ace's bandages and left the room to go and inform the visitor that he could go in and see Ace.

Shadow walked out from behind the door not having not waited. Ace smiled at the younger Pegasus. "Hey little brother. How is it living under Luna's flank?" His tone clearly teasing.

"Nicer then you imagine it would be brother. I see you still can't keep out of trouble. And now your one mare still has her pet changeling drones." said Shadow Wing.

Ace punches his brother in the shoulder. "You are just jealous I get two more mares in my bed and still have a blank herd slot. Anyway how's Hammer liking that coltfriend we chose for her?"

"Last I heard he came back from meeting her with a new set of armor and weapons. He also had one of her shed scales tied around his neck." said Shadow

"That's good. She deserves a good stallion." said Ace.

Shadow frowned "Blueblood made a move. He tried to stop Shining's wedding."

"Damn I missed my chance to cut of his horn and feed it to him. How did you kill him?" said Ace

"We didn't the plothole got away leaving a lot of mind wiped victims and he had help. He was aided by human that can do magic, a female one. That's not Megan." said Shadow.

"I guess things will be getting fun then from now on." Said Ace his body sparking with electricity.

"Yes it will. Try not to level the nation." Said Shadow as he started to back away from his brother.

"No promises little bro. Tell Luna I'll kill the fool as soon as I can." said Ace

"I will." and with that Ace was alone again.... and the nurse still can't find Shadow to let him in.

Nurse Redheart returned to Ace"s room. "Well this is embarrassing, we seem to have lost track of your visitor captain. You have my sincerest apologies." she said quietly.

"My brother already was here you just missed him. I'm surprised you did not see him in the hall." Said Ace knowing full well she would only see him if he wanted her to. But that doesn't stop him from messing with ponies.

"Well your brother must be made out of wind and shadows then, because I didn't see him or hear him. Now I need to go and check on Bryan, if that is he is awake by now. I swear that Megan is better than any medicine we have. Just by her presence alone she has him as content as the day he graduated your training Ace. He had a smile like one of Pinkie's for a long time afterward." Nurse Redheart said as she started to leave the room.

Ace just chuckled.

Nurse Redheart stopped for moment "He was only that proud one other time, and that's when he began his apprenticeship with Trixie. Do try to remember that he does value his accomplishments, he's just not as vocal about them as you are captain." She smiled before leaving to go and check on Bryan.

The drones move from the corner and Ace smiles. "You two want to play a prank for me?" The drones looked at each other then nodded. He then whispers in there ears.

Nurse Readheart trotted down the hall to Bryan's room. She worried about him inside, she knew that he was resilient, but it never kept her from worrying. Having arrived she knocked on the door only to have Megan answer.

"How is he?" Nurse Redheart asked

"He's fine." Megan replied "He's awake now so come in."

"Thank you Megan. she said as she came into the room. Bryan was attempting to stand up on his own but stumbled only to be caught by Megan.

"Take it easy Bryan." Megan said "You're not ready to move around just yet."

Bryan stretched his aching muscles "I need to try Megan, I've been laying still for too long."

Nurse Redheart trotted up to Bryan "I know you're eager to not spend all day in bed Bryan, but you need to take it slow. You haven't recovered all of the way just yet."

He smiled at her "I know, but I'm feeling a little cooped up and need to move around a bit. I'll go stir crazy if I don't."

Redheart smiled "Then let Megan help you. I'll be back later to check up on you again before you have your little gathering later today, okay Bryan?"

"Y-yeah." he said

"Okay Bryan," Megan said " let's try this again, but take it slow this time."

Nurse Redheart left having been convinced there was no need for her presence for now.

Bryan was getting around the room in a shaky fashion with Megan's help. He couldn't wait for later when he finally told everypony what he could about his life before Equestria.

A moment later in walked two human girls with smiles. One had silver hair and purple eyes in a wizard hat and cape as well as shiny blue leotard with a silver bowtie and matching high heal knee high boots and elbow length gloves. The other had fire like red and bond hair, light teal green eyes in in black leather jacket with a maroon under shirt with sunsets cutie mark on it, a orange mini skirt with purple and yellow strip on one side and black combat boots.

"Hey Bryan! How are you feeling?" Said the red/bond with a voice that sounded like Sunset Shimmer.

"Yes Trixie decided to check on her star pupil." Said the other woman.

Bryan inwardly facepalmed, Ace could do a lot of things really well, pulling a solo prank on him wasn't one of those things. Curiosity however abounds in his mind as to where this was going. "Well I didn't realize that you two would decide to pay me such an unexpected visit. So are you just here to show off the results of this new spell? Or did you have something else in mind?" he said

Megan was confused however "Uh Bryan aren't they ponies?" he nodded in ascent "Then why are we seeing humans?"

Bryan thought carefully about this situation. "Is Ace trying to get me? Or is he trying to get Megan?" He looked at his for the first time that he could speak of clueless lover. She was definitely stunned, this was too good of a chance to mess with her.

"What are you talking about? We are the same as we we always are? Did Ace put you up to playing a prank on us?" Said Sunset accusingly.

"Never mind that lets introduce who we bumped in to in the hall. After all they came here to see them." said Trixie

"Oh right come on in." Said Sunset as the two women stepped aside.

In rolled a yellowish coated gray maned and tailed old mare. With a cutie mark of five apples. She was in a wheel chair being pushed by a equally old purple Pegasus mare with Blue gray main and tail. "Well. It's been so long Megan , Bryan. I didn't believe my great grand daughters' letters. But when they said Megan was had come back to us. I just had to see for myself." Said the old mare.

"I believe it. My Great grandson is not a fibber he may exaggerate but never lies out right specially to me. It's great to see both of you again sorry it's not in Dream Valley. But things got cold there." Said the Pegasus.

"Yeah," Bryan laughed "that's because Ace knows you could still kick his flanks like he was a first day recruit in the Lunar Guard. Even at your age Firefly. Hmmm, I guess your coat darkened as you older. I remember it being pink, but then again that does happen to some humans with their hair color." Bryan was wondering if Megan would remember the things he had told her about Equestria when she arrived. If she didn't in this moment, well it would be mean, but even Megan would laugh because of own forgetfulness.

Megan stared at the two mares "Applejack? Firefly? I don't get what's going here, you two," she said pointing to Trixie and Sunset were " you two most definitely ponies when I saw you yesterday, not humans. And I-I-I just don't know." Megan stammered.

Bryan now wore his very best "game face". Trixie and Ace had taught him well and was not going to blow it right now. Inside however he was cracking up, he had never seen Megan confused. And though he loved her dearly, this, this was too rich.

"Hey Megan what wrong? You look faint maybe you should sit down." said Firefly.

"Did you eat a bad apple Megan? I did and my tummy felt really bad the whole day." Said Applejack senior.

"What are you talking about Megan of course we are ponies right. Trixie." said Sunset

"Of course the Great and Powerful Trixie is the greatest of all unicorn mages." Said Trixie waving her arms making her cape billow behind her.

"And you're as big a bragger as Your grandfather Star Swirl." Said Firefly shaking her head. "Honestly what dose Ace see in you?"

Bryan looked at Megan "Maybe your apple you got when brought us breakfast earlier was a little bad. I mean the apple family is great on quality control, but stuff can sneak though even coming from them."

"I did not eat a bad apple Bryan, and those two aren't ponies right now." Megan retorted

"Well," Bryan said "Trixie is a very gifted illusionist, maybe she and Sunset are appearing as humans to mess with you a bit. They do pull pranks with Pinkie and Rainbow sometimes." Bryan was thoughtful for a moment "Though it's usually just Trixie, but since Sunset was Luna's apprentice and Luna is a well known prankster herself she has been know to pull them every so often."

Bryan then looked at Firefly "Well, far be it from me to be shallow but Trixie is as good a she says for one thing. And for quite another she has a great figure. I mean she's sleak, toned, athletic, and has really nice flanks."

"Has somepony been fantasizing about his great and powerful teacher's, great and powerful plot?" She turns and bends over shaking her hips.

Sunset smirked and smacks it. "Sorry Bryan but her flanks belong to me and Ace." She stuck her tongue out teasingly.

Firefly rolls her eyes. "See Megan, look at how ponies act now a days. Back in Dream Valley we never did anything like that. My daughters in law are terrible flirts. If only Ace had met a nice mare like you."

Bryan blushed "Yes I have been a little, I mean you really can't blame me can you? You're a very attractive mare Trixie." he sighed "I know Sunny, but it's hard not to think about it sometimes. Seriously she actually wondered why I was distracted during her lessons sometimes. It's hard not to be with such a formidable distraction."

"Bryan!" Megan said shocked "What would Heart Throb say if she heard you say that!" She turned and looked at Firefly "I don't know if that would have helped."

Bryan looked at Megan "She would commend me for being honest like you both told me to be." he sighed "I'd never try to act on it Megan, Trixie is in a committed relationship, but if I were to lie about it to her I'd lose her as a friend, I'm not about to do that." he hung his head "It makes me wish I had actually told Twilight about my feelings for her back then. I would never have loved you any less or left you for her, but well with the way you felt about Firefly... Maybe we could have had our own herd then, you know just you, me, Firefly, Twilight, and Applejack. We both love that silly pony after all."

"Aww that's nice of you to say." Said Senior Applejack before she rolled over and hugged both of them best she could.

"Shame about that Megan but look at it this way. If that did happen you would have legal relation to my reckless foal of a grandson." Said Firefly fly giving Megan a kiss on the cheek.

"Awww!" Came from Trixie and Sunset as they hugged.

Megan returned the hug and then said "I really need to sit down." She walked over to a chair and flopped into it. This is just too much." She said clearly feeling exhausted.

Then they heard it, it started in sputters but soon was clear and full that insane cackle that only one pony had. A shimmering revivals Ace in a wheel chair with Trixie and Sunset next to him all three laughing there flanks of the human versions started to as well dropping there forms in a flash of green fire. The old ponies shimmered as the illusion fell to reveal Applejack and Rainbow Dash. Rainbow now rolling with laughter and AJ trying hard not to join in.

"A'hm sorry -phft- sugar cubes, but -phft- they dun talked me in to it." Managed AJ before joining Dash on the floor.

Bryan lost his composure just a moment later and began laughing his ass off.

Megan jumped to her feet "Bryan Alexander Drake! I can't believe you were in on this. Why would you do something like this to me?"

"Okay Megan calm down and I'll tell you why." he replied

"Okay Bryan, I'm sorry I snapped at you." she said

He waived his hand dismissively "No harm no foul Megan. I went along with this simply put because you're impossible."
She looked at him blankly.

"Sorry, what I mean by that is that it's nearly impossible to prank you. Normally you're so quick witted and alert that it just can't be done. So we had to take the once in a life time chance to prank you, I mean really it'll never happen again because you're just too quick." Bryan said with a smile.

"I did make it easier by forgetting the this isn't Ponyland didn't I?" her question was rhetorical, as she was already aware of the answer.

"Yeah, you did. Oh and by the way that's not my name anymore. When I moved out their house and in with Tabi she took me to the courthouse to get my last name legally changed. So," he said "it's Bryan Luna now." he laughed "Being a big brain Tabi choose the old Greek word for moon."

Megan smiles at everypony "Okay we've all had our fun, but now it's about time to get ready for that explanation."

"Just about." Bryan said "The fillies will be out of school soon." he looked around the room "We can't do it here though, there's not enough room for everypony. So let's go outside around the back of the hospital. It'll be less disruptive that way, that and I need to get out of this bucking room for a bit."

"I know what you mean." said Ace.

"Well then let's not sit around here, I need to feel the sun on my skin, and the breeze too." He said as he tried and promptly failed to walk on his own. Luckily Megan was across the room and caught him before he hit the floor. "Sorry," he said blushing " I forgot."

Megan smiled and kissed him lightly "It's okay Bryan, I know this has been hard on you. Especially with today being the anniversary of the Smooze incident."

He gave a weak smile to her and quietly thanked her.

Applejack pushed the wheel chair she had entered in over to them.

"Thanks AJ." Bryan said " Guess I'll need this for now."

"I figured you would." Said Ace. He then looked at Megan. "Please tell me you landed a punch on blue balls back in Canterlot before he bugged out."

Trixie and Sunset jumped. "How you know about that? We haven't even told you yet!" Said Sunset as Trixie was slack jawed.

Ace smiled. "What you think I don't know what happens with my mares? Just cause I'm not around doesn't mean I don't know what you two get in two. I am a Captain for a reason. I keep a eye on Equestria.

"No I didn't get the chance." Megan said "He tried to drop a chandelier on Captain Armor and myself.

Bryan rolled his eyes "You mean that Princess Luna ordered Shadow to come here and tell you about it."

"Aww no fair spoiling my badflankness in front of my herd. You know I have to get you back for this right?" Said Ace fake whining the first part.

Bryan rolled his eyes "I never have any super dramatic moments Ace, so I doubt it. Besides you just need to quit, there's now way you can match Trixie's flare anyway. So yeah, it's not gonna happen." He chuckled as Megan wheeled him along.

"You never saw me on stage with her." said Ace

"Hey it worked. Right Trixie?" said Ace

"Trixie only agreed to stop him from stealing Trixie's audience." Said Trixie with a smirk. "But it did turn out enjoyable."

Megan and Bryan laughed. "Good one Trix." Bryan said "But my point still stands, he doesn't have your flare. Only you can have that."

"I'll never understand the dynamic you and your mares Ace. It really seems you guys have got a real good thing going." Megan said between giggles.

They arrived outside and Bryan took in a breath enjoying the feeling of the sun and breeze on his skin. Megan looked at him "Would you like me to get some tea for you Bryan?"

"Thanks Megan, I'd like that a lot." he smiled appreciatively.

She kissed him and went back inside.

Bryan gave Ace, Trixie, and Sunset and dopey look "Wow she's great."

"Yeah she is. Shame she's wasted on you." teases Ace.

"No that's Trixie and Sunset being wasted on you." Bryan said laughing.

"Hey at least I can handle two at once." said Ace

"I prefer to give my mares individual attention." Bryan retorted "That way they get all of what I can offer without any distractions. Anyway we've still go a little while before everypony else gets here, let's take it easy for a while." Bryan smirked "You need it more than I do anyway."

Sunset and Trixie giggle as Ace looked shocked. "Need rest? Thanks, but I've rested plenty. I need to be discharged is what I need." said Ace.

Bryan shook his head "You can slow down by choice, or you can be forced to slow down Ace. I advise the former before the latter happens."

Later that day...

The rest of the ponies Bryan had been waiting for had arrived at the hospital just as Megan said they would.

"Leave it to Twilight to be this organized about it." he thought to himself.

"Well now that everypony is here I can do what I should have done earlier. I can explain myself to all of you." he sighed "I'm well aware that some of you will probably find what I am about to tell you shocking, and some of you have no doubt already figured it out to some extent." He looked right at Ace, Sunset, Trixie, Twilight, and Pinkie.

"So I'll just start by saying that the Tails From Dream Valley aren't just a bunch of stories I made up, they actually happened." he said awaiting the reactions of the gathered crowd of friends.

"That was obvious." said Ace.

Bryan laughed "I guess it was my way of confessing it to all of you."

"Whoa!" Scootaloo said "That actually happened! That's so cool." she said enthusiastically.

Bryan nodded "Eeyup Scoots, including your favorite part when Megan turned a huge sunflower into a catapult to escape the Smooze." He couldn't help but smile at the filly's antics "So what questions do you have for me? I'll answer as best I can."

Rarity spoke first "Darling, you and Megan really were together at such a young age?"

"Yeah," Bryan said "it's really rare but it does happen among humans sometimes. Before that when Megan and I were friends I went to her family's ranch everyday after school, I pretty much lived there after a while."

Applejack naturally looked troubled at this information, but kept silent for the moment.

"So when exactly did it happen dear?" Rarity asked

Bryan smiled "After we rescued our pony friends from Midnight Castle and Megan blew Tirek away. We had come back to her family's ranch after Firefly and Medley had brought us back. I remember being so wound up that I couldn't sleep that night. That is until Megan coaxed me into bed with her, she had me rest my head against her chest and sang to me until I fell asleep. It didn't take long after she started to sing."

Rarity was beaming and nearly swooned "That's so wonderfully romantic dear! So when did you and Megan finally make love for the first time?"

Bryan started coughing, Megan was blushing furiously and Fluttershy was agape at what her marefriend had just asked.

"Ummm, well." Bryan said after having recovered "The truth of the matter is that we haven't yet."

"Why ever not?" Rarity inquired "It sounds as if you were both quite taken with each other."

"Well that's because we were far too young then Rarity. I mean Megan and I were just too young at that time." Said Bryan stammering a little.

"Rarity!!" Sweetie Belle squeaked indigently.

Rarity looked horrified at her faux pas, suggesting such a thing of two so young at the time, and in front of her little sister no less.

Megan spoke up "Could we have a question a little less personal please?"

"What happened to stop you going back and forth to Dream Valley? From the size of it you two could have just moved in there and lived happily ever after with the ponies there." Said Ace finally poking the elephant in the room that has bugged him since reading the stories.

Megan took Bryan's hand interlacing her fingers with his. "The rainbow connecting our wolds eventually disappeared, we have no idea why or how. It just did. Had it not happened Megan and I would have ultimately moved to Dream Valley and lived our lives there." Bryan said tears beginning to well up in his eyes.

Megan squeezed his hand reassuringly.

Applejack just looked at Bryan "But what about your family sugarcube? I mean they had to worry about you at times, did they even know about all of this?"

Bryan sighed again "No Applejack, my real family is in Ponyland." He looked up at Megan who simply looked back at him and nodded. "I have parents, but I can't call them family. They are to selfish for that, no instead my family lives at Paradise Estate. I was basically adopted by some the ponies there, it started with my little sister Ember, she looked at me like an older brother. So that's what I became, to all of the fillies at Paradise Estate. Then Wind Whistler, Paradise, Gusty, Fizzy, Posey, and Sweet Stuff all took me on as a younger brother. Then Heartthrob, Ribbon, and Cupcake all started to treat my like I was their son. So my family lives in Ponyland, and it would be great to be able to visit them again." he said sadly.

Sunset tilted her head and asked. "When did it appear in the first place?"

Megan answered "I don't really know Sunset, it was just there one day. We never had an explanation for it."

Bryan merely nodded.

"Is it possible someone or something closed it on purpose?" asked Trixie

Megan and Bryan looked at each other "We can't rule it out Trixie." Bryan said "But we can't know for sure one way or the other."

"And that doesn't worry you?" asked Ace "I mean I hate to be the voice of doom but aren't you worried? I mean the witches may have been three shoes short of a full set. But they did have magic for all you know right know they could have everypony in chains as there slaves or worse." Says Ace making it the fourth poke at the giant white elephant in the proverbial room.

"Not likely." Bryan said "After a while Draggle turned her back on her mother and sister because of the way was she treated by them. She even started to learn to use magic from our unicorn friends and was guarding them when we left."

"Besides," Megan replied "with all of the new friends and allies we helped the ponies gather they would have a hard time Ace. I don't think that Hydia and Reeka would have tried anything with Draggle there because she knows their tricks."

"That and since the Smooze was driven back and their plan to usurp Flutter Valley failed we never heard from them again. Not until Draggle changed sides. Even if this were true Ace what do you propose we do about it? We are cut off from Ponyland and have no way to get back, none that we can speak of."

"Three words. 'The magic Trinity.' Twilight Sparkle talent magic, Sunset Shimmer talent using both light and dark magic schools without backlash, Trixie Lulamoon talent magic specialized in Illusions. You know the three strongest spellcasters since Star Swirl the Bearded and one is his descendant. Yet you never once thought of asking can you make door to Ponyland?"

"Magical Trinity?" Megan said

Bryan rubbed his forehead "It's the title given to the three most magically able ponies in Equestria Megan. Twilight one of only two alicorns born in the last one-thousand years, the guardian of magic and a descendant of Princess Celestia, Sunset Shimmer is as Ace said able to use both so called light and dark magic without the backlash that everypony else experiences from both due to their power level, and Trixie Lulamoon, like Sunset she is a graduate from the Royal Academy for Gifted Unicorns descendant of Star Swirl the bearded and illusionist extraordinaire." Bryan waved his hand to each mare in turn. "These three exceptionally gifted mares are known as the Magical Trinity, or the Magical Triumvirate if you're feeling fancy." Bryan was deep in thought for a few moments

"The problem is Ace that we had no trace of Ponyland magic until now. Even though I had though about it after meeting Sunset and Trixie the texts I've read as well as those I had asked said we would need that link to Ponyland, which we only just now have." Bryan said

"What do you mean Bryan?" queried Megan

"What I mean is that even though it is fused to you as it is Megan the rainbow is that link. And from what Princess Luna and Celestia had told me that would be the best way to create a stable gateway. Given how intelligent both Twilight and Sunset are it could now be done, there's also Pinkie's inexplicable ability to add to these things. What I really want to know is why exactly you're so... disturbed about all of this Ace." Bryan said

"It seemed in the stories one thing after another attacked each stronger and more planed then the last. Add in that you both been gone from there for how long, and Megan has their only defense super weapon? It might just be me imagining things, but my old warrior instinct just screams at me that those ponies if not in trouble now are going to be in some deep trouble soon. It comes up whenever I think about how important you two were to them. Megan by the way things seem in stories you where almost to them what Celestia and Luna are to us. " He looked at them both his eyes hard. "If not for you two how many time would their world have ended? Draggle may have changed sides but she was always the weaker of the three from what the stories said. She also had a history of spells backfiring with a book in front of her. Knowing she is on their side is some comfort but at the same time what if a foe like the Grogar or Tirek returns, or if her mom and sister have something worse then the Smooze. I mean most of their attacks was just aimed at warping the land the Smooze was dangerous cause of collateral damage from it. But what if they attacked directly. I mean even I can shoot lightning, and I'm technically a passive magic tribe. If they actually target the ponies... Well I don't like to think about that kind of thing but it is my job to do so."

"What you're forgetting Ace is the Princess Ponies, and the Flutter Ponies both groups are very powerful. And then there's Catrina, Porcina, the Bushwoolies, Furbobs, Stonebacks, Grundles, the Troggles and the Moochick. There is also Queen Bumble and her swarm, they are powerful in their own right. We left them well able to care for themselves, even with Queen Majesty in such bad shape after Triek's attack on her. Triek is long dead and Grogar is forever trapped in the Nether Realm. Not even Hydia and Reeka can get to him, Crunch the Rock Dog has a piece of the Heart Stone and is a friend and ally to the ponies. these are in addition to the countless other sapient beings in their world. It would be very difficult for just two witches to cause them any grief Ace." Bryan sighed "Still we do have the ability to find out for certain now, and Luna did say that we'd be foolish not to use it."

Megan just looked at Ace "I'm a little lost, you know what they can do, and we have no idea how much Draggle has improved in ten years. Why are this worried about it Ace? I know what you just said makes sense but I think you might just be over thinking this."

Everypony sat in stunned silence, nopony had ever accused Ace of over thinking before.

"The report on Blueblood's escape... He had a human female helping him." We have no knowledge of her or how long she has been in Equestria or where she's from. But she had magic. I never like unknown enemies and call it paranoid but the fact that you two are both here and a unknown human with magic backing Blueblood, a pony that couldn't find his own plot with compass, map and picture directions? I'm from Neighpon and even I think something smells fishy." said Ace.

At that moment Pinkie suddenly broke into a full body shudder.

Bryan's eyes widened "Pinkie Sense." he whispered "Ace we've definitely got some trouble now, we need to start making preparations." he said frantically.

Megan squeezed Bryan's hand again "What's going on Bryan, why did Pinkie shiver all of the sudden?"

Bryan looked up at her "It's Pinkie's Pinkie Sense."

"Pinkie Sense?" she said

"It's a form of precognition, and the last time she had a full body shudder like that it was, well it was a big deal." he said "I can't do anything until the negative energy is cleared from my body anyway, so you'll all have to take care of it."

Twilight was already beginning to take charge "Sunset Shimmer I'll need you help to begin researching the gate to Ponyland." she looked at Megan "That means we'll need you too Megan. Trixie, Spike I need the two of you to get a letter to the princesses right away to inform them what's going on. Fluttershy, you and Rainbow go and see if Zecora has anything that'll help our stallions get better sooner. Everypony else we are going to need you to help Commander Solis get to know Ponyville better, we need to get some defensive strategies ready just in case." She said as everpony went about there tasks.

"Twilight," Ditzy who had been quiet until now said finally speaking up "is there anything we can do too?"

"Yeah!" Vinyl chirped "I wanna help too."

"I'm sure you all can help out somehow." Twilight said

"A witch." Bryan said under his breath.

At this moment Charger began to approach with a few of her and Ace's subordinates.

"Charger call in the ship! I want it on patrol I don't care if Steamer complains about having to sleep in her wheel house again get her and the Blood Moon in the air yesterday!!" shouted Ace

"But sir the assault ship is normally only used for deep strikes in to the Everfree." replied Charger.

"I designed the BUCKING thing with help from my sisters! I know what it's for. I want it in the skies till the threat passes and I want Volley, Razzle and Dazzle on it ready to provide support fire! I may be out of the trenches but I am still your captain now move your flank!" ordered Ace.

"Sir! Yes sir!" Shouted Charger before running off.

Ace and Bryan were left for Sunset's drones to wheel in.

"Bryan... I hate being right all the bucking time." said Ace

"It's not all of the time Ace, but often enough." Bryan replied

"Enough that I wish I was wrong about the bad things coming. Worst part is for part of this I'm stuck here." said Ace

"Well if anypony can speed this up without hurting us it's Zecora. Ace do you think that Hammer has her special project for me done just yet?" Bryan said "Also I'm not sure what's on Sunset's mind, but if I'm reading this drone right she's really worried." He said looking at the drone in charge of his wheelchair.

"She will bring it when it is, and yeah Sun Sun's worried." said Ace

"Well then it's a stupidly boring wait fest, at least it's not gonna be much longer with Zecora getting involved." Bryan replied.

It was going to be a long few days for everpony involved.