“Prince Solaris, Prince Selene, we found an intruder on the premises,” a mare Unicorn guard said as she entered a throne room.

The room was pretty much barren with the exception of two Alicorn brother Princes sitting in separate thrones side by side; some torn flags hanging from the ceiling; a few pieces of a torn royal carpet that used to run along the length of the room; and lastly eight guards, two behind the princes, two along each of the sides of the room, and the final two on either side of the entrance, all mares.

“Get rid of them,” Prince Solaris boomed in a rough voice. His almost Black coat, Vibrant Blue sun talent mark, and flowing Crimson, Cobalt and Emerald mane and tail made him seem more intimidating than he truly was.

“Sir, the intruder bears your trophy mark as well as Prince Selene’s,” she stammered.

Instantly the brothers looked at each other in shock. “Take her to our room,” Prince Selene said in a guff voice. His Bright Red coat, almost White flank with a Black crescent moon talent mark, and flowing Light Red mane and tail made him seem much less intimidating than his brother.

“Sir, it’s a hermaphrodite,” she replied. “Also, it’s a Draconic Alicorn, a foal, and our magic doesn’t affect it.”

“What number does it’s dog tags read?” Solaris asked as he arched a brow.

“Number twenty-four dash eleven dash zero-three dash sixty-five, Sir,” she replied.

“Bring it in, posthaste,” Selene said in a near thundering voice.

“Yes, Sir,” she saluted before running out. “Why would they pick a hermaphrodite to be their trophy?” the mare wondered as she made he way through the almost empty castle. “Hardly seems it would be fair to have a half male-half female trophy while everypony else has trophies of only one gender.

She made her way down a flight of stairs and into the dungeon. All the cells were empty except one. It contained a monochrome Draconic Alicorn foal laying on the ground with shackles around each leg keeping it positioned in the middle of the room.

It’s coat and horns were Slate Grey, and the coat had patches of Black and White scales here and there and it had no talent mark. It’s mane was Black with White stripes, and it’s tail was longer than a normal pony’s and covered mostly in it’s hide with a Black and White tuft at the end of it. It’s wings had alternating Black and White primaries and secondaries. It’s eyes were of different colours, the left eye being entirely Black while the right was entirely White. It had small markings on each of it’s cheeks, one of a Vibrant Blue sun and one of a Black crescent moon. It wore two collars on its neck, one of solid gold and the other being solid gold with a crescent moon shaped Cobalt Gem. And lastly, it wore four solid gold leg rings, one around each leg, and two solid gold rings around the middle of it’s tail.

“Get up you wretched thing,” the guard said before kicking the cell door. It then rose and looked at the guard. “I’m coming in,” she started, “one wrong move and I’ll stab you.” As she finished her sentence a hidden blade came out of, and subsequently went back into, the gauntlet she wore on her front left hoof. It nodded then closed it’s eyes and stood perfectly still as the guard came in and removed the shackles. “Follow me,” she said.

They made their way through the dungeon and up the stairs. There, at the top of the staircase, three more guards joined them. The group made its way through the castle stopping before the door to the throne room.

The first guard knocked on the throne room door in a specific pattern and after five seconds it opened.

“Come in, we’ve been expecting you,” Prince Selene said with a dark smile as the guards brought it to the stairs in front of the Princes.

“Zi ehi ryd kyurk dy bciemohi ayo dnum duli, Prince Selene,” the Draconic Alicorn said in a double voice. The double voice consisted of a colt’s and a filly’s voices, they were previously known as the Metamagica Twins.

“Guards, leave us,” Solaris said before all the guards left the room.

“Contact, why will you not pleasure us? You’ve never objected to it before?” Selene asked as his voice began turning serious.

“We have come to finish a challenge proposed to us by our physical creators,” Contact replied. “Also, you know what the collars on our neck mean. We don’t think you’d violate such a promise.”

“Times have changed, Contact,” Solaris said. “We made sure that in this era there would be nothing stopping us from doing you.”

“You cannot do us without our consent and you know that,” Contact said as they struck a defensive pose.

“We know our magic is incomparable to yours,” Selene started, “but we aren’t the ones going to wear you out to the point of helplessness.”

“Then who are you going to use?” Contact asked as they lowered their defenses slightly.

“Us,” two voices said from behind them, one of a stallion and one of a mare.
The mare’s voice was familiar and instantly recognized as Chia, the Djinn. The stallion’s was not completely unfamiliar to them as they had heard it twice once before. They looked behind them to see Chia and a Draconic Alicorn stallion.

The Draconic Alicorn had a White mane with a Cobalt stripe. His coat and horns were Grey, and his caot had tiny patches of White and Cobalt scales here and there. The tuft of his tail was White and Cobalt. His eyes were Cobalt, his wings had alternating White and Cobalt primaries and secondaries. And, lastly, his cutie mark was of a lunar eclipse made by a gem shaped sun and planet.

“Chia, Lunair, why would you do this for them?” Contact asked.

“As the only one with power comparable to yours, I was selected to wear you down,” Chia said as she and Lunair came nearer to them.

“As leading researcher for the Arcane Faction, the process of the fourth most powerful creature being weakened appeals to my interests,” Lunair said.
“We’re not going to let you defile us,” Contact said before they flung a ring off their tail and into the air. The ring had a swirling purple void appear in it and it grew larger as it flew. It finally reached the size that a pony could pass through it as it began descending. It was about to land on Lunair before it froze in midair.

“I’ll not let you send him there,” Chia said as she held her front left hoof toward the ring. “Lunair, get back.”

“We can and will send him,” they said before jump-spinning and sending all the rings on them into the air. They all repeated the process the first ring underwent with the only difference being their approach to Lunair. They came at him from various angles. From the left, the right, the front, the back, and below; encasing him in an almost cube shaped trap.

“Either you leave us alone or we’ll send him to the Tech Faction Front,” they said upon landing. “We aren’t as violent as we used to be, but we will fight for our- Gah!” they said before being hit in the back of the head with a shock baton and falling to the floor unconscious. The rings around Lunair lost their power and returned to their normal size and state.

“Stupid foal,” Chia said as she looked down at them.

“Good work, Chia,” Solaris said as he rose from his throne. “You have now been promoted to Colonel.”

“Thank you, Sir,” she said.

“Ugh,” Contact groaned while they tried to awaken.

“This is very interesting,” Lunair said as he summoned a clipboard and pencil with Chaos Magic by snapping his claw. “It refers to itself in the plural and has a double voice. It can control those rings it wears without any visible signs of magic use. And it seems to be trying to force itself awake as if it were two minds inhabiting the same body,” he stated while making notes on the clipboard. “This is truly a scientific marvel!”

“Study while you can, Lunair, we’re on our way down,” Selene said as he and his brother made their way down.

“Ugh… I won’t… let that… happen!” Control said in their female voice. It then jolted up and opened it’s eyes to look at the princes. It’s eyes were now a different set of colours, the left now being Crimson and the right being Cobalt. The rings gained their power back, returned to their void like appearances, and their size increased to a size large enough to fit even Tirek of the normal dimension.

“Be gone!” Contact yelled in both anger and their double voice. The rings began flying toward each of the other four in the room, however, the only pony to disappear was Lunair. The other rings stopped above their targets. “You either leave us alone or we’ll send you three to the real void,” they said as the tension rose.

“Fine, you get what you wish for, so long as you return Lunair to the castle,” Solaris said as he and Selene backed away from them.

“We cannot bring Lunair back on account that our body’s existence hinges on him being taken prisoner by the Tech Faction,” Contact said in a slightly calmer tone.

“You will bring him back or I swear I’ll kill you!” Chia said in anger. The area around her began distorting as if her anger could twist reality itself.

“We cannot, as we told you-”

“You will!” she yelled as she charged at them.

The ring that was above her quickly dropped down on her causing her to disappear.

“We thought you were smart, Chia,” Contact said as they looked back in the direction of the fallen ring.

“And just where did you send her?” Selene asked as he looked at them.

“To a form of Varidia,” Contact said as the rings returned to them and their eyes returned to their monochrome state.

“Why? What do you have against her personally?” he asked.

“She doesn’t know it yet but you do,” Contact said as they looked directly at Prince Selene.

“The fact she will one day attempt to recreate the world into one of peace certainly is disturbing, but to take it personally is on another level entirely,” Solaris said as he looked at them.

“This is our world to protect when nopony else has the power to defend it,” they said in a slightly angered tone.

“Don’t start with us,” Selene said as he came nearer to them raising a hoof to hit them. When he swung they caught his hoof in their claw.

“You know not to get us mad,” they said as they twisted his hoof causing him much displeasure.

“Fine, I give, just don’t get mad again,” he said as he bowed his head.

“Forgiven, this time, don’t do it again,” they said as they let him go.

“Disgraceful,” Chia said as she came up behind Contact. “A Prince bowing to his trophy. You aren’t fit to lead a herd of cattle if that is the case.”

“Chia! What are you doing back here so soon?” Selene stammered nervously.

“If you think something that peaceful will throw my concentration for more than a minute you really are unfit to lead a herd of cattle,” she said.

“I just-”

“I know what you thought, there’s no use in trying to hide it,” she said.

“Enough arguing!” Contact yelled. “We know it’s this dimension’s natural law but still, something as small as a thought has no reason to be argued,” they said ending in a normal tone.

“Alright, but nopony should bow down to their trophy,” she said as she sneered at them.

“Duly noted,” they replied. “Now, Chia, do you want to see Lunair ever again?”

“Yes, but I’m not going to risk getting captured,” she replied.

“Fine, if he’s killed it’s not our fault,” they said. “We trust our room is available?” they asked as they looked at Solaris.

“Yes, it’s been ready since we built the place,” he replied before they began to walk away.

“Wait!” Chia called as she came near to them. “What must I do to get Lunair back?” she asked as she looked them in the eyes.

“…Get captured yourself,” they replied before resuming their walk to their room.

“How do you expect me to save him if I get captured myself?” she said. “If you are the fourth most powerful creature in the world, then you of all ponies should know they have been working on a serum to nullify my ability to concentrate.”

“We know,” they replied as they continued walking away.

“If they rape me I’m blaming you,” she yelled in anger at them.

“It wouldn’t be the first time somepony blamed us for something somepony else did to them,” they yelled back as they exited the throne room.

“What do you think you’re doing?” a guard said as she ran up on Contact with her hidden blade extended.

“Going to our room,” they said as they grabbed the mare’s hoof and removed the gauntlet with blinding speed.

“How did you…?!”

They continued their trek, and as they did, they passed several doors with socks on their nobs. The sounds coming out of those rooms were best left in them.

“Damn it. Why did they have to do this to us, Sol?” Lulu’s mind thought as they continued walking.

“Stay calm, you’re not the only one of us feeling hot,” Sol’s mind thought.

“We’re a walking ‘heat’ sync! How the Viridia do you expect me to keep calm?!” she replied.

“We’ll pleasure ourself when we get to our room,” Sol started. “Until then, try to keep your parts of our body under control.”

They continued down the hallway for a good thirty seconds before stopping in front of a door that was half Crimson and half Cobalt.

“Good, we’re here,” Lulu thought.

“Wait… I sense somepony,” Sol thought as they froze with their claw on the door handle. After a few seconds they burst into the room.

“We know what you’re going to say,” Chia said as she looked at them with what appeared to be a set of hoofcuffs in her hoof.

“And we’re not here to play,” Prysme said as he set a small whip down on the dresser across the room from the door.

“Then why are you here?” they asked as they walked over to the bed.

“This peaceful resolution bores us,” Chia started.

“We’d hoped you’d do some fighting for us,” Prysme finished.

“You said it yourselves, you’d rather settle this without violence,” they replied.

“What we said is we would not fight you,” Chia began again.

“And that is exactly what we’ll do,” Prysme continued.

“Fighting you now would break our word.”

“And during the fight, nature’s balance would be deterred.”

“So you would rather us go and fight for the Arcane Faction?” they asked.

“To that we say ‘yes’.”

“We advise you do your best.”

“Fine, but promise us this, we will not be violated.”

“You have our word.”

“Your collars’ promises will not be hurt.”

When they finished that last sentence, they disappeared in a flash of light.

“Great, now we literally have a war on our claws,” they mumbled to themself.

“Solair, Lunair, can you hear me?” a familiar voice resounded in their head.

“We hear you, Tia, what is it?” they thought as they looked upward.

“We just wanted you to know that today is Pipsqueak’s birthday,” Tia said.

“We wish him a happy birthday and Lulu wishes she was there with him on this occasion,” they started, “there is a gift for him under the bed we used while we lived with Twilight. Please give it to him with an expression of our happiness.”

“I will,” Tia said. “Don’t worry, the half year will pass faster the less you think about it.”

“Tia, we exist in and out of time,” they started, “Not thinking about time passing is impossible.”

“Just try not to let it bother you then,” she said. “I must go, the party starts in an hour. Take care you two.”

Author's Note

Two things:
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Second:
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This chapter only has one sentence that needs translated to be understood. In the future, you might not be so lucky.