Alex Rider: Universe Shift

Princess Luna sat quietly behind her desk, waiting patiently for her guest to arrive. Her gaze was fixed on the mirror and her assistant, Pikimania "Pinkie" Pie sighed, a bit worried about her employer. She had been fascinated with the mirror portal the entire morning, and she was waiting patiently for the two boys.

Luna was known as the Princess of the Night, of course, that was simply a cover. The Princess of the moon had long since given the title up to run Equestria's secret services, the Unicorn Pegasus Eatrhpony Defence -the UPED for short. She had been running it ever since her return from being Nightmare Moon.

Luna was an alicorn -having both wings and a horn- with a navy blue coat. Her main was long and misty, resembling the night sky, flowing constantly despite the lack of wind. Her cutie mark was a small crescent moon on a large black spot.

Pinkimania was second in command at the UPED, joining not long after it started. Despite her seemingly upbeat personality, he was actually extremely serious when she had to be. The young pony was also in charge of gadgets, which she was always creating in her spare time.

Pinkie was a bubble gum pink earth pony, with large puffy dark pink mane and tail. She had two yellow and one blue balloon -with alternate strings- for a cutie mark. Her eyes were large and sea blue, her normally happy expression long went, a stern glare had taken its place. This stern glare simply darkened when the two boys walked through the portal.

"Alex Rider and Yasha Gregorovitch, welcome to Canterlot. My name is Agent Luna, that is my assistant Ms Pie." Luna said a smile sketched on her face. "I hope you are both able to adjust to your new forms quickly, as you are going to be sent out right away."

"I hope so as well Mrs Moon," Alex nodded bowing lightly, his voice holding little emotion. "I would suppose that it would be normal for him to be unstable with his magic"- Alex nodded to Yasha,- "But extremely unusual if I couldn't fly."

Luna paused silently before nodding, quietly she walked around the two. Yasha could feel the blue ponies eye's scanning him, almost as if she was looking for something. His body tensed as she paused, eyes focusing on his neck. A small whimper escaped his lips as she moved onto Alex.

"Both of you are definitely special. Alex, where I want to place you, it would definitely make no sense for you to not be able to fly." Luna reported looking at the two. "I think it would make sense for you to be part of my personal night guard. At least temporarily. I know your cover."

"Alright then Princess, do you mind filling us in on it?" Alex sighed shaking his head lightly, "Because I really doubt that I'm going to like this."

Alex sighed, allowing his wings to unfold, gently wrapping his left around Yasha. "I hated being used as a child. I was fourteen when the MI6 recruited me. Did you know that? I thought I was done after I destroyed Scorpia's reputation. However, I couldn't drop the sense of guilt, and the kneed to do something. I joined the SAS for five years, where I learned to kill. I accepted that it was part of the job, no matter how hard it was."

Yasha turned to Alex, a small look of fear entering his eyes. He had never seen Alex so upset, nor had he known all that much about the boy. He had known his age, he could remember there first meeting clearly. Even when Alex had confronted him on the roof he hadn't held that much raw emotion, anger.

"Many of my guards are recovering from the Nightmare curse still. Everyone is recovering slowly, however, it would be a good cover to set the curse on you, and assist you in healing." Luna nodded dropping her head, walking up with a small sigh. "The young one besides you will not be harmed of course. It is my job to help ponies in need, mainly though there dreams. After the curse is gone, or at least mostly gone you will be transferred to Candace's guard."

"What exactly does this curse entail? Because if there is any chance at all of Yasha being hurt, I'm not doing it! I don't care if it's physical or emotional pain. We can come up with another plan if that is the case."

"No, I will make sure that Yassa is taken care of during the procedure, he will not witness a single thing. Ms Pie, will you lead Yasha out? I want to talk to Alex alone." Luna ordered nodding lightly, smiling as Pinkimnia walked up to Yasha. Luna watched them leave before turning to Alex, continuing. "Alright, I must warn you that it's going to hurt, a lot. Normal magic in this world magic is fairly harmless but this particular brand is quite dark and unforgiving. There is a chance that you will not fully recover, are you alright with this?"

There was a long pause as Alex thought, gently biting his lip. A small concerned look entering his eyes, as the possible dangers played out in his head. Admittedly, Alex didn't trust the Princess as much as he could as she had already given him reason to doubt.

"Look Princess, as much as I do want to help I don't trust you. When I first got here you instantly wanted to use Yasha in this mission, and really I cant trust you after something like that. Not to mention the fact that I may not ever fully heal, and that may hurt Yasha. I really don't know if I can go thru with that." -Alex shook his head sighing heavily- "Look, perhaps you could explain it further I would agree but under these circumstances, I don't think I can."

"I'm sorry Alex, but I really don't think there is another way." Luna huffed dropping her head lightly, letting out a small sigh. "This is really the only option Alex. You have to go thru with this. Look, I don't want to force you to do anything, however, we do kneed your help, Alex."

"You know what! I'm kind of over being used like this! There is an illusion of me having a choice, then that is taken away. But you know what, it doesn't matter! Just do it." Alex hissed shaking his head angerly. Taking a deep breath he shook his head angerly, glaring at Luna somewhat darkly.

Luna nodded, allowing her magic to surround Alex, who let out a scream of agony. Alex groaned as his entire body changed out of his control, his wings stretching thin into a more bat-like shape. Alex huffed as his skin rippled, eyes burning with a strange heat. When the light faded, Alex was much darker, his scars accented against his somewhat disfigured form. His wings were bat-like, with small claws on the tips, his eyes were a bright yellow with snake-like slits. His mind was foggy, not unlike the feeling he got after waking up after being knocked unconscious.

"Alex, are you quite alright my loyal subject?" Luna asked tilting her head as Alex whimpered, tears rolling down her face. "I apologize, the transformation back isn't going to be nice ei..." Luna paused watching as Alex stretched out his wings, groaning lightly before taking off. "Well, shit."