Magic and Monkey

by HeartfireFirebrand

Chapter 55: Inquisition

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The week past fairly uneventfully with exception of one thing, the day after the wedding invitation was delivered. Gohan joined Goku B and Vegeta B on their way to their training using the Nimbus. He arrived after everyone else, Goku A approached Goku B “Come on, I just want to fight you once!”

Goku B shook his head “I told you no, what part of that don’t you understand.”

Gohan walked over with a frown “Goku, stop that right now.”

Goku turned around, his eyes widened as he looked at Gohan. Tears started to form in his eyes. “Grandpa... How are you here?”

Gohan frowned “I’m guessing your version of me died, from the Oozaru you became at the full moon I assume. Well I didn't die from that.” He then flicked him on the forehead “You need to learn some manners, not everyone wants to fight you.”

Goku complained “But I want to fight strong guys to get stronger.”

Gohan raised his hand “Martial Arts is about discipline and controlling oneself. Yet again if you only learned from Roshi then you may have some problems with that. He doesn’t have much of the second part.”

Vegeta A walked up to him “He is right Kakarot. Self-control is important, it’s what Whis has been trying to drill into you. You are too relaxed and carefree, you lack proper control and strictness in yourself.”

Whis B frowned “I know you are not my student but he is correct. You need to discipline yourself properly.”

After the week had past, Sunset was wearing a dress that flowed like flames down to her hooves. Vegeta was wearing a solid black tux with white undershirt and black bow tie. The two walked towards where the portal was located, Sunset frowned “We should really move this portal closer to the house and stick it to an object.”

Vegeta smiled “That can be done when we return.”

The pair stepped through the portal, they arrived in a room filled with high tech machines. The walls made out of a marble like structure shone brightly. The room was currently unoccupied save the two guards at the door. The guards politely let them through without a word.

They exited to see a huge marble hallway, bipedal ponies some with wings and some without wandering the halls all wearing extravagant dresses and suits. Celestia walked through the hall, all the ponies observing her as she walked towards Sunset and Vegeta.

Celestia smiled “Sunset, I’m glad you could come.”

Several of them seemed to freeze at the mention of her name. Sunset eyed several of them but they appeared normal. She then turned to Celestia with a smile “It is nice to be back here again even if I found a new home elsewhere. Now where is Cadence?”

Celesta gestured to the hallway, Cadence walked down the hallway in a light pink dress. Sunset gritted her teeth as Cadence’s form seemed to shimmer and split into two surrounded by a glowing green. Sunset clicked her fingers, her dress was now in one arm and she was wearing a suit of dark blue armour while holding a large horn.

Sunset handed it to Vegeta “It seems duty calls.” Sunset blew through the horn sending a loud bellowing sound throughout the halls. Hundreds of ponies wearing similar dark blue armour and wore dark blue hoods covering their faces appeared.

Vegeta frowned “What is going to happen?”

Sunset sent out a powerful wave of magic over the hall, they watched as Cadence’s form shifted to that of a black bipedal bug creature with a green web-like mane wearing a dark green dress. Sunset growled as the blue armoured figures surrounded the creature “Queen Chrysalis, you had a lot of guts to capture an Alicorn! You are now in the custody of the Changeling Inquisition for impersonation of an Alicorn. Now tell us where you hid her and you will be given some leniency!”

Chrysalis felt a chill run down her spine, these were the ponies had been opposing Changelings since before the age of Discord. She raised her arms “Princess Cadence is in the catacombs under the castle. She was such a potent supply of love that we needed to keep her close.”

Sunset raised her arm “Take her to the dungeons and keep a rotation of six guards at any one time in groups of two. You will meet up every ten minutes and check on one another.”

Six guards approached, one pulled a set of magical cuffs and pinned Chrysalis’ arms behind her back. They then began escorting her to the dungeons, Sunset then walked over to one of the armoured mares. She whispered “Fleur, I wish you to do a full sweep of the grounds and capture any stray changelings that are not in the registry.”

Sunset then stormed over to Celestia “How did you not figure out that it was not Cadence. You should know her well enough, how can you run Equestria if you can’t tell if someone close to you has been captured by a Changeling.”

Celestia frowned “I have an entire nation to run, I can’t always pay attention to everything.”

Sunset poked Celestia “You need to make time! Those nobles can handle their own problems for two seconds and you need to tell them that they are being stupid once in a while!”

A purple mare in what appeared to be a light blue blouse and long dark blue skirt walked up to her “You can’t talk to the Princess like that!”

Sunset turned to her “Who are you?”

The purple mare glared at her “I’m Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia’s personal student! That is not the point, you can’t criticise the Princess!”

Sunset frowned “A lesson to learn, no-one is perfect no matter how hard they try to be. No-one is without flaw, to say otherwise is foolish. You not a fool to be Celestia’s student so don’t act like one because that kind of devotion is not healthy for either of you. Now once we find the real Cadence the wedding can continue after her recovery.” Sunset walked away to join in the search, leaving Twilight and Celestia to stand there by themselves.


Author's Note

So Chrysalis has been captured, the Inquisition does it's job well.

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