Chapter 11: Finally.

"I still want to melt his face off..." Taara flinched at the stinging pain of the magical circuits sparking. The limb was powered by soul gems just like the Dwemer automatons. The dull bronze color of the dwarven metal clashed with the arch mage's robes, but she was thankful she would still have an arm after this.

"Come on Taara...he is giving you a whole new arm...I am sure it will be fine..."

"Yes...but it really doesnt improve what I or any of us really think about him..." She flinched a bit in pain at the last piece of Dwemer tech being lodged into her stub.

There was a flood of healing energies and Geel looked down at them with a frown. "You know... you guys could really have just waited until I was gone to talk bad about me...."

Twilight gave a nervous laugh and a reassuring pat on his back. "Well Geel...I for one am very happy and very thankful for your help in all of this...We could not have done it without you.."

Geel gave a warm happy smile, which almost made Taara retch. It was one thing Twilight did not much enjoy about her close friend. Taara was a grudge holder and in her age she was happy in her ways. Twilight was literally the princess of friendship, seeing someone so dead set and determined not to make friends with another person was a little hard for her, especially when that person was already a very close friend. But she had moved past this years ago. A part of her own maturity from this world. Not everyone was perfect, and not everyone was willing or able to just change to fit the needs of a peaceful happy world. Taara was a good person but she still had some things about her that would never fit into a perfect world, the more she thought about it this was the same with everyone she had ever met. Everyone had their problems and none of those problems could ever truly exist in a perfect world. As Taara taught her, perfection and peace is just a lie, a beautiful lie but a lie none the less. The only thing she could do is just her best. Just because true peace was impossible didn’t mean she should not try for it. These memories of lessons taught to her by arch mage Taara were ones she would keep forever.

“Ahem! … well your arm is complete arch mage… the sigil stone is awaiting…you two have a wonderful trip…three sorry..” He chuckled lightly looking down at spike who hopped up gracefully onto Twilight’s back. He almost never sat there anymore, He was far more mature and if Twilight was to be honest with herself, he had really grown into a whole new dragon. He had hardly increased in size but still he was smart, quick, and ready for anything. Spike had actually joined in on some of Baldir’s little quests. Twilight herself was very different from the young pony she had come to this land as but to her surprise, Spike had grown twice as much as her. Just another thing they would have to laugh about when they came back to Equestria.

Hours later when the threat of melting Geel’s face was gone the adventure was about ready to begin.

“Aye…gather round…you few and brave who came willingly…and you whom I paid to be here…” There were some chuckles as Baldir strode in with two of his companions. Hoping in from a dark corner Ra’shala stepped in calmly and happily

“As you all know… Today we finally have all the required ingredients… to get our friend and master wizard back to her own home.” Taara flexed the fingers on her new arm as she looked down at it somewhat regretfully.

“Ahem… the plan is quite simple…we will open an Oblivion gate in a safe location…then force our way inside, fight to the nearest castle and find the obsidian mirror. When we do so… I will force it open…and we will hop through… after we do this we will try and return twilight to her home and establish a magical gateway that does not rely on us invading Oblivion every trip. As to not freak out the inhabitants of Equestria…both myself and Twilight have created a spell that will translate our forms to a not so unusual form for Equestria… once we are settled and in no danger of causing panic we can revert back…”

Twilight chuckled at the thought of what everyone else would look like with this spell, she could imagine Baldir turning into some hulking earth pony, enough to intimidate even Big mac. Her imagination wondered as Taara continued.

“The general goal here is to get Twilight back home… but also to bind the two worlds together. Travel between the two realms will be easy then, happy ending you know” Taara chuckled, she was always a sucker for happy endings in stories. Just one more reason she was pushing so hard to get Twilight home.

The crowd talked amongst eachother for a moment before settling their fallback plans and all the such. Twilight had whipped together a few details that would help them right away when they transformed. It was hard for her the first time and much like her first transformation just because they COULD walk on the number of legs they were used to didn’t mean they would be good at it. And much like she expected it, the mages read it thoroughly and Baldir tossed it aside the moment it touched the palms of his hands.

Twilight’s thoughts were interrupted by an old orc yelling at Arch mage Taara as she ruffled through her bags, it was unclear what they were discussing but he was outraged by something and she seemed to as usual with most of her mild problems, was ignoring it.

“Are we ready Twilight?...” Twilight nodded looking back to quadruple check the makeshift Oblivion gate they constructed. There was a plethora of guards and mages just outside the room and three of the most legendary and powerful beings in all of Tamriel ready to go at a moment’s notice right there. There was little they were not ready for.

“Everything is here… lets go to Equestria…well… um Oblivion then Equestria. I can’t wait to introduce you to my teacher and friends.”

Taara just smiled warmly and took up a black soul gem, smashing it over the sigil stone caused the magica to flare up and ignite the gateway into Oblivion with a powerful fiery red light.

“Aye... everyone stick together… leave any Daedra to me and my boys…” Baldir pulled out his axe and gave it a calm twirl as he and his two companions entered the gate first, quickly followed by Ra’shala, Then came Twilight and the college mages Spike riding on Twilight’s back and finally Taara.

The first step into the hellish fire pitted doomy world reminded her right away of her first moment in the horrible place. It was so hot and so loud.

“Right ahead…there’s a huge castle… that has got to be your place…” Baldir strode forward bravely, not even flinching as out of seemingly nowhere, a scamp lunged up only to be split in two by the heavy axe. “Keep moving forward… we will be in there in just a jiffy…”

Pressing forward the group finally managed to, with much lava hopping and minor scuffles with minor Daedra, get into the castle where Baldir enjoyed a few clean rounds of combat with the occasional Dremora and finally before them, a large obsidian mirror. Up near the top of the tower where Twilight vaguely remembered popping out.

“…we are here… finally…finally..Spike… we are going home…”

Taara and Twilight both focused and the mirror came to life.

“Royalty first princess…” Taara nudged Twilight who happily leaped through followed quickly by the others, into utter darkness.