Princess Twilight Sparkle walked into her room in Canterlot Castle and removed the tiara adorning her Cutie Mark and flung it across the room, smiling as it stuck the wall and clattered to the ground before scrubbing a hoof through her mane.

“You know you should treat your crown better Princess.” A voice that sounded like two different people speaking at once said behind the purple Alicorn.

Twilight turned and looked at the Changeling Queen as she walked into the room removing her beret and setting it to the side. “It’s not like it’s the actual Element, it’s a knock off.” Twilight said with annoyance.

“Still it is your crown Princess.” Chrysalis said.

“Don’t you start calling me that too.” Twilight said with a glare.

“Calling you what Princess?” Chrysalis said with a completely innocent look on her face. Twilight just glared at her till the Changeling Queen chuckled. “Sorry I couldn’t resist Commander.”

“Thank you. “Commander Twilight Sparkle said. “I have to put up with that shit from the nobility and the civvies here in Canterlot; I won’t have my own second in commander doing it to.” Twilight said and scrubbed her hoof through her mane again before going over the bathroom and splashing some water in her face before looking at herself in the mirror.

The mare that stared back at her was slightly taller then she used to be when on four hooves and wearing gold regalia around her neck a slightly darker coloring then that which Princess Celesita wore, though there was a small purple six pointed star in the middle of the chest piece. On her hooves she wore the standard princess hoof coverings that matched the rest of her regalia that she hated wearing but needed to look the part of a Princess at certain events.

The left side of her face was a mass of small scares, though fades slightly were still easily seen by anyone who looked at her and down the right side of her face was a single slash from a blade. Running along her body was man other small scars, some slashes from blades, some small and round, some burns and other surgical, all faded slightly but still noticeable with ease, but the scars were not the first thing people who met the young Princess ever noticed. That right was reserved for her legs and eyes.

Both her eyes and all four of her legs were clearly not natural and were in fact made of what was once high grade steel, now something far tougher since her ascension to Alicornhood gave them an upgrade. The legs looked more like her legs and something she was still getting used to she was able to feel through them now where before she was completely numb, but yet she only felt pain up to a certain point then nothing so it was still like her old legs.

Her eyes were also unnatural just like her legs but they did look more natural then when she was a unicorn. Many people she met she caught staring at her as they tried to understand what they were seeing do to the fact the plant still had not reached the level of technology to make cybernetics like what she had. Many would then question where she got these and she always explained she got them on a trip somewhere that was hard to explain.

It wasn’t a lie, how do you explain to ponies who thought war was very small scale skirmishes where both sides take the other soldier as prisoners with stun spells and the like and death rarely happened. How do you explain what true war is where it’s kill or be killed while using technology far beyond what everyone else on the plant had back when she took the unwilling trip to a planet called Earth and joined a group of rebels fighting against a corrupt government in the year 2037.

That was where Twilight had learned what true war was and learned how the world really worked and abandoned the naive belief that there was good in everyone. Her time away taught her there were those that were irredeemable and needed to be removed from existents for the betterment of everyone.

Twilight sighed and shook her head to clear the thoughts of her past away. She had bigger things to worry about then how she got to where she was. Grabbing a towel she dried her face and walked out to see Chrysalis reading a book. “So Queeny how much time do we have before the dinner for the delegates?”

The Changeling Queen marked her place in the book and looked up. “Well I’d say about four hours, why?” she looked up at the smiling Alicorn. “Let me guess we are sneaking out of the castle again aren’t we?”

“You read my mind!” Twilight said throwing a fore leg around the changing and a moment alter they vanished in a flash of purple light and reappeared at the Equestrian Defense Force garrison in Canterlot, Twilight loved the booster her magic got from becoming an Alicorn as it made teleporting this distance easy as cleaning her side arm.

Twilight looked around a moment before she felt something placed on her head and reached up and pulled off the tiara. “The hell you grab this for?” She asked looking at her companion.

“Well you are a princess and since you are still wearing the rest of the outfit I figured might as well make it complete.” Chrysalis replied.

Twilight huffed. “You know both my uniform and armor are in my pocket dimension right?” she said but still put the tiara back on her head.

“I know but till you change your clothes you should look the part and seeing as where ever we are going it won’t be long before we need to return for the dinner so might as well stay dressed for it.” The Queen said.

Twilight huffed again. “I hate when you are right you know that Major?” Twilight asked using the Changeling’s military rank. It had been a long time since Twilight “recruited” the changelings into the EDF and made their queen her second command of the entire thing. Things had been rough at first due to the Changelings having a very bad reputation do to the incident are Twilight’s brother’s wedding but that was about fifty years ago and since then the changelings had done much to help protect the nation so most ponies had no issues with them now, though there were still pockets of racists but unless they did more than talk Twilight wasn’t allowed to do anything about them.

Twilight and the Major walked into the Garrison and past the soldier who stopped and saluted the two leaders of the army as they made their way to the helipads out back, both officers payed the soldiers no mind as stopping to salute back to every single one of them would be extremely time consuming and they were on a tight schedule. As the two of them exited the building and walked out onto the helipads they made their way to a black EDF gunship that had two pilots, an earth pony and unicorn lounging beside it either reading a magazine or playing a hoofheld gamming device

As the two approached one of the pilots looked up and quickly nudged his companion and they got to their hooves and saluted. “At ease.” Twilight said. “Mount up, we are taking a trip to the EMSD plateau and we are in a hurry. “She told them and the two pilots smile before dropping the dark visors their helmet shad over their eyes, they were used to their Commander sneaking out of the castle to escape the nobles or other political duties she now had.

Twilight used her magic to open the door to the crew compartment as the pilots climbed into the cockpit and her and the queen climbed inside. Once in Twilight shut the door and took a seat with a sigh of relief as she heard the blades start to spin up.

Once they were in the air the Queen spoke up. “You know Twilight the Royal Guard is going to panic when they realize you are gone again.”

Twilight laughed. “Let them, not like they aren’t just for show when they are “guarding” me. That’s what you are for. “Twilight said and nudged the queen’s shoulder.

Chrysalis shook her head and rolled her eyes. “Be that as it may it still isn’t good to scare them like that.” She said and looked at the flat stare the Alicorn was giving her. “Right forgot who I was talking to for a moment.” She said and facehoofed. “You want them to panic so you can come back to the chaos and enjoy the show don’t you?”

“Hell yeah!” Twilight said with a laugh and patted the changeling Queen’s back.

Chrysalis just sighed and sat back in her harness as they flew through the air feeling the anticipation radiating off the mare beside her and joy at what they would return to. “What about Celestia and Luna?”

“Which ones?” Twilight asked.

“The bots.” The Queen elaborated.

“Oh I sent them a signal explaining I was taking a break so they don’t panic when word comes down that I am gone.” Twilight explained.

“You know that is still really hard to get used to.” Queeny said.

“Hey not my fault that whatever magic made me an Alcorn saw fit to make my brain implants actually part of it.” Twilight said with a chuckle. After she had ascended she had submitted herself to many medical exams with the aid of the Queen and found that the computer chips and circuit that allowed her to use her cybernetics had been altered so they no longer looked like foreign object on her brain but were now actually just another part of the mares brain like her cybernetics were, though she could still detach her legs to do maintenance on them.

After a little over an hour the two friends felt the gunship starting to descend and the speaker crackled to life. “Alright we are coming in to land, shouldn’t be more than a minute ma’am.” Came the pilot’s voice.

Twilight pressed the putted on the wall. “Alright, thank you Skies.” She said to confirm she had heard.

Sure enough after a few minutes the gunship touched down and passengers undid their harnesses before Twilight opened the door and they climbed out and stretched, the gunships were made to be efficient, not comfortable and sitting in the same spot for so long was very uncomfortable.

The two were met by the security chief, a Pegasus, for the Facility and a few of the security forces. “Ma’am we weren’t expecting you to be arriving today.” He said with a salute.

“At ease Lighthooves, I decided to do a surprise inspection today.” Twilight told him.

“Ah I see, nobles getting to you again I take it?” Lighthooves said with a smirk.

“Seriously does everyone think that? I can’t do a random inspection of one of my own facilities without it having something to do with the nobles?” Twilight said waving her forehooves in the air.

“Of course you can ma’am.” The security chief said face returning to the stoic professionalism all EDF soldier wore when on active duty.

Twilight nodded. “Now then lead the way to whatever tests are being done today.” She said with a wave of her hoof and a neutral expression. Maybe coming the EMSD Facility all the time to escape the nobles wasn’t such a good idea.

Lighthooves lead the way into the Equestrian Military Science Division Facility as the officer followed behind. After a few elevator trips they arrived at one of the labs and the Security Chief swiped his ID card to unlock the door. With several loud clicks and the sound of rushing air the door opened lightly and the Chief pushed the door open and the group walked inside.

The lab looked like many of the EMSD labs throughout the facility in that it was large with many tables and scatterings of equipment and a few of the Computer that had been developed right in these vary labs, they were nowhere near the computer Twilight was used to and had been trained on but they were still a computer, just basic and improvements were being researched all the time.

What set this one apart was on the far side of the room within the test chamber part of the room was some sort of large machine that looked like a massive generator with researchers moving around it checking readouts and adjusting dials.

“Ahem” Lighthooves cleared his throat to get the research teams attention.

A dark blue unicorn mare looked up and blinked as she adjusted her glasses. “Oh my Commander! I wasn’t expecting to you be interested in my project.” She said as she set her clipboard to on a small table and made her way over.

“I take an interest in many projects Dr….”Twilight trailed off.

“Clear Mind Commander.” The Unicorn said with a smile. “I must say it is an honor to have one such as you taking an interest in my work.” She said and giggled nervously.

Twilight nodded. “Why don’t you tell me a little about your project?” Twilight prompted, truth be told she had no idea what the project was but there was no reason to tell Clear Mind that.

“Oh well I’m researching alternate forms of energy that will be cleaner and more powerful than our current generators.” Dr. Mind explained.

Twilight blinked. “That is very impressive if you have already reached testing stages.” She said looking at the large machine with interest.

The researcher nodded vigorously. “Yes we were just about to run the first test on the prototype, would you like to observe?”

“Absolutely.” Twilight said as she saw the rest of Clear Mind’s team clear the test chamber and seal the door behind them. The group passed out tinted goggled that were a requirement when testing do to an incident a few years back that resulted in an entire research team being permanently blinded when a test went wrong and exploded in a flash of light.

Once everyone in the room was properly protected Clear Mind started to type on one of the computers and a few moments alter the machine in the test chamber started to come to life. “Ok…reading good so far, entering stage two.” She said and hit a few more keys.

As the group observed stage to active the machine rumbled more and started to vibrate and a few moment alter the air in the room started to vibrate as well as the machine started to glow in some areas. “Doctor is that supposed to happen?” Twilight asked as she looked at the researcher.

“No, no it’s not, it’s reacting to something. “She looked at the group and her eyes widened. “Commander you’re glowing.”

“What?” Twilight looked down and saw she was wrapped in a yellow aura she was all too familiar with. “Shut it down!” She yelled at the doctor.

“Shutting down. “The mare said and started typing. “Attempting shut down.” She said as the machine started to fire off electricity around the test chamber. “It’s not…it’s not shutting down!” Clear Mind yelled over the alarms that started to blare.

“Everyone out now!” Twilight yelled and everyone started to head for the door a moment before the magically enforced glass of the test chamber shattered and bolt of magical electricity lanced out form the machine and struck the Commander and everyone looked on in a mix of shock and horror as she folded in on herself for with in a second and then vanished as the machine shuttered and then died as it released a puff of smoke.

The gathered ponies looked where the military leader had once stood till the Major sighed and ran a hoof down her face and said the one thing on her mind. “Not again.”

Author's Note

whelp the Commander has been flung to the far reaches of the Multi-verse and where she lands, who knows.

What sort of Adventures will the militarily Alicorn get into as she try's to return home?

what world will she visit?

what new skills will she learn?

who knows, all we know for sure is things just got a whole lot more interesting for the Commander.