"Holy shit," Sully said with a wide-eyed look.

"Sully, language!" Nathan berated him, "don't make us look like fools in front of a Princess!"

"I'm with Sully, Nate," Sam began, "what the hell just happened?" Before the two brothers could get into a skirmish over proper manners and language, Sully pushed himself between them.

"Guys!" Sully started, "Don't start this in front of the lady!"

Suddenly remembering why they were even here in the first place, both Drake brothers turned their heads to find Princess Luna standing there, curious eyes affixed to them. She began to trot to them- "Ah buck!"

Luna suddenly did a double-take, before falling on her flanks and wincing in pain. Seeing this, Sully and Nathan rushed over while Sam got a first-aid kit. "Mrs. Luna, are you alright?" Nathan asked.

"I am fine Sir Nathan," Luna responded, her voice laced with pain, "It seems not all of my wounds have healed from my fight with Queen Chrysalis when you resurrected me." To prove her point, she brought her hoof up to show that one of her hooves was broken, and a long gash ran the length of her hooves. “Alas, it seems thy sword wielding changeling I fought before I died managed to get me fiRST!’ She winced in pain again when she tried to move it.

Sam came over to inspect the wound. “One second ma’am, it seems the sword cut a line straight down your veins, and there seems to be a piece of the sword embedded in your arm,” He points to a bit of a sword blade stuck in the pony equivalent of the wrist. “One sec, I took a medic class a few weeks ago.” He turned around, and pulled out a medic bag, before coming back to Luna. He first took a elastic band and wrapped it around the area above her elbow -“Need to stop the blood flow before I pull out the blade.”- Then, once he was sure that the blood circulation was stopped, he disinfected the open gash, then using some tweezers, he slowly pried out the sword blade shard, before taking some gauze and alcohol and applying it to her hooves, before applying a torquenet for good measure.

"Thank you, Sir Samuel," Luna said, moving her hoove to see if she can use it properly, "It seems that the blade attack Queen Chrysalis sent after my sister had hit me as well" Nathans mind started putting some pieces together, If she was the ruler of this kingdom with her sister, but her name isn't on the coins I found...

"Excuse me," Nathan cut her off, "Was your sister Princess Celestia?"

Luna nodded, "Why yes, how did you know?"

Nathan pulled out one of the coins he looted from the bodies, "I found these coins on the corpses of some horses—‘Ponies,’ Luna muttered under her breath—and it said 'In Celestia we Trust.' " He flipped a coin to Luna, who caught it with her magic.

"Very nice, although I will have to ask you to stop touching the corpses of my...deceased subjects now."

"As is the courtesy," Nate replied, shooting a glance at Sully, who began whistling nonchalantly.

"Now," Luna began, her horn charging up to show a slideshow full of pictures of Equestria, "what do you wish to know of my world?"

“Well, we can leave the finer details for later,” Nathan began, “So why don’t you just begin by telling us of your leadership?”

“Very well,” She began, “I am Princess Luna, Princess of the Moon and of the Night. My sister, as you know, was Princess Celestia, Princess of the Day and of the Sun. Together, we ruled in tandem the country of Equestria.”

Off to the side, and Luna began to explain Parliament and Cadence, he made a note, Matriarchy-We haven’t had one of those in awhile.

The throne room was now devoid of half of its occupants. Nathan had skipped out at the first-hour mark when he learned of the Royal Library and asked to go there and pick up some books. Sully had skipped out about an hour after that when Luna made an off-hand comment about how the wine in the castle was probably aged for Millennials and opted to find that instead, and Sam?

"But that's scientifically impossible!" Sam exclaimed, a notebook in his hand with equations written all over it. "The energy needed to move the Moon is almost FORTY-MILLION times what the energy output of Earth is, so how can you move it??"

Luna deadpanned with one word, "Magic."

"But that still doesn't make sense!" Sam exclaimed, "I cannot believe that a single Equine body can house enough energy to move a celestial body!"

"But," Luna replied, "You believe that your fellow 'Doom Guy' has gone to hell and back and used demon energy. You also believe that your friend 'Master Chief' has somehow survived the equivalent of several nuclear strikes on his position, so is it that far off to believe I could have raised the moon?"

Sam opened his mouth to respond, but then closed it, thought about it for a few minutes, then sighed. "Yeah, I guess you have a point."

As the two began to talk once more, an automatic bell signaled that it was the hour once more. Luna looked up, then her eyes widened in shock before darting back and forth. Sam, of course, had noticed.

"What is it, Princess Luna?" He said in alarm. She began pacing back and forth, muttering to herself. Sam could only make out about 3 things: 'no time', 'Shimmer', 'Twilight', before reeling his head back and Luna's head snapped up and she teleported our other 2 explorers back to the throne room. Nathan had seemed to be in the middle of a book, with about 5 more in his satchel, while Sully had been downing a bottle at the time, and had ended up choking on the thing.

"There is no time!" Luna yelled in the Canterlot Voice, before stopping to notice that her wings began dissolving into dust. "Argh! The spell is beginning to wear off! I have no time to explain what is currently happening, so I'll just tell you what I need you to do." She levitated the orb that Nathan had found in her room and handed it to Sam. "Sir Samuel, I need you to do something crucial. I'm going to give you a scroll," she said, producing said scroll and handing it to him. "This is a dimensional scroll, it will send you to the dimension and time I need you to be in," As she said this, her wings fully dissolved, and her flank began to dissolve as well.

"This will send you to about 3 days before the Wedding. I will need you to show this scroll to past me, she will check the magic and find that what you are saying is true. Should you get to this point, ask her to contact me 3 days into the future and I will tell her what needs to be done then and watch out for the green flame, they aren't who you think they are. Hurry, the time is running out!" Luna yelled before her body was split in two, and she dissolved into nothing more than ash and bones. The 3 adventurers looked at each other, then at the scroll, then at Luna.

it was Sully that broke the ice, "What the fuck just happened?"

Nathan blinked.

Sam blinked.

Sully downed a bottle of wine, and blinked.

None of the 3 adventures made a move. All 3 were still trying to process what just happened in front of them. Nathan began to think back to his adventure with the El Dorado treasure, and silently prayed he wouldn’t turn around to see a spanish inquisitor behind him.

Sam began to process whether or not this thing was an airborne virus and if they needed to leave.

Sully was downing his flask of Scotch.

After looking at each other awkwardly, then at the scroll which Sam put on Luna's Throne, Nathan began, "Soo..."

"So?" Sully replied.

"Are we going to do it?"

'What do you mean 'it' kid?"

"Follow Luna's request," Sam finished for him, before grabbing the scroll and his bag, "And my answer? I say we go for it."

"But kid," Sully began "We didn't even know this girl for barely a day. How can you just straight up trust her with whatever she's saying?"

"Because," Nathan replied, also packing his bag, "she was literally pleading with us to go do what she's asking, how can you deny a girl's request like that?"

"I can when I barely even know the girl."

"Yeah, but we're explorers," Sam replied, double-checking that his gun was loaded "It's kinda what we do when we're given obscure evidence to do something."

"...fine. But let the record show that if we die, I blame you."

"Duly noted." Nathan replied, before grabbing the scroll, "Everyone hold on tight." He said, before activating the scroll.

Nathan could barely explain the sensation he felt when he used Luna’s scroll. He had used portals before, it was the primary method of travel as well as the only method of travel between dimensions with the Group, however, this teleportation-and time travel-method Luna used was unlike anything he ever experienced. The moment he touched it, he began to dissolve and was sucked into the scroll. He couldn’t breathe, move, or do anything else besides watch. He felt transparent as if he was in reality but yet nothing could touch him. His head felt soft as he zoomed through what seems like several different universes. When he got to one in particular, he started slowing down, before coming to a planet, and a very specific castle. He began to speed up, as feelings began to creep up through his toes, and through his legs. When it reached his head, he finally was able to think clearly and see...he was on the roof.

He fell, crashing on the ornamental rug beneath him. His head hit the side of a fireplace, and he vaguely felt the slickness of blood snaking through his hair. He pulled himself up, before finding the wound and disinfecting it, and wrapping some bandages around the affected area. Finding the bleeding stopped, he pulled himself up further and analyzed the area around him.

To the left of him, Sam KO'd himself on a coffee table edge, luckily not bashing his head hard enough to cause bleeding. Further up, Nathan could hear the distinct sound of Sully groaning, and he flipped around to see that the older man had fallen on top of a suit of armor, "Goddamnit, my head feels like I've gotten off on six shots of Chardonnay."

His head clearing up, Nathan pulled himself up and grabbed the end of the table. He slumped over it, before seeing that his bag was on the opposite side of the room. As he lunged for it, he saw it was enveloped in a Navy Blue Aura, before it floated over to his hands, "What the fuck...?"

"Ahem." He turned around, seeing through blurred vision a blob of dark blue. He rubbed his eyes, letting them clear up, before settling down and noticing who the creature was. "Hello, my name is-"

"Princess Luna," Sully groaned out. "We know."

Author's Note

Yay! Another chapter! This one took a bit shorter time, mostly because I decided to skip some of Luna's explanation of Equestria. I will admit, I probably should flesh out the more finer details of the story (Like when Luna was dissolving or talking with Sam) and I'll try to incorporate them into the next chapter.

Side Note: By the request of Armageden, I'm going to add a Star War: The Clone Wars character. It will be further into the story (I mean, we haven't even gotten to the Wedding yet), but someone will be there. Comment down below who your favorite character is, and I'll take a poll of who commented.

Special thanks to CommanderApplejack for agreeing to proofreading this chapter and the rest of this story