Sam’s first thought when he opened his eyes was What the fuck just happened? He sat up, eyes blurry, shoulder’s sore, and absolutely no idea how he got there. He vaguely remembered they were talking to an alicorn named Princess Luna, but everything seemed to blur together after that point. As he continued blinking and clearing his eyes, he began to see more clearly and tried to sit up.

The first thing he noticed was that it was dark. Like very dark. It took him a minute before he realized that there was a pair of tinted sunglasses on his head. He slowly brought a hand to his face to take them off, before quickly slipping them back on when he realized how bright the room was when he took them off, “Augh!”

“Woah, Sam, slow down.” To his left, he could make out Nathan’s voice. “You knocked yourself out exiting the teleportation.” He offered Sam a drink, which he took in earnest, before continuing. “No permanent damage, but your eyes kept staring at the fireplace for a solid minute so we had to make sure you didn’t burn your eyes out.”

“I’ll be fine, Nate,” Sam chuckled. “It’s like those ‘staring at a lightbulb for 3 minutes’ things that Cortana did to test us or something.” After double-checking to make sure that his eyes were okay, he slowly pulled off the glasses and let his eyes adjust to the surroundings.

He immediately found that he was in what looked to be a medical room. He couldn't hear the tell-tale sign of doctors muttering incomprehensibly that would show he was in a hospital, but could easily see that there were medical supplies and machines all around him. He tried to get out of bed but was stopped by some braces on his legs.

“Oh yeah,” Nate spoke, seeing him trying to get out of bed, “Apparently, you suffered the most injuries between me, Sully, and you. Sully landed on some armor stand, and I landed next to the fireplace, but you crashed straight through a coffee table.”

“First stuck in a Panama jail for 15 years, then nearly died finding one of the world's oldest pirate treasures, then handicapped because I crashed through a table.” Sam chuckled to himself. “Maybe I should have taken up that offer to become a professor in Chicago instead.”

“Yeah, but where’s the fun in that?” Sam chuckled as well. “C’mon, Sully’s with the princess, and I don’t trust keeping him with her for any longer than I have to.” Nathan hoisted his older brother over his shoulder with surprising ease, then they both stumbled their way to the living room.

Sam was prepared to see a drunken scene entering the room, but surprisingly, that was not the case. Sitting in the middle looked to be Princess Luna, the same look she had when they resurrected her earlier. Opposite of her was Sully, a cigar in his mouth as always, and between them was a chessboard of all things. “Checkmate,” Sully muttered.

“What!” Luna yelled, “How art thou possible?!”

“David and Goliath move,” Sam called out. When he noticed the puzzled look of Luna, he elaborated, “You moved your king in between your pawns to get away from his rook, but you set yourself up to a diagonal checkmate by his pawn.” He pointed to the pawn that Sully had his fingers on.

“Ah, a king defeated by the lowest piece, a true David and Goliath move,” Luna acknowledged, before cleaning the board and extending her hoof to Sully, who took it in earnest, “Good game, Sir Sullivan.”

“Now, if you two don’t mind,” Sully called, getting the attention of the two brothers, “Sit down so we can explain to Luna why we just crashed into her living room. I don’t think she’s taking kindly to being beaten in chess 4 times in a row.”

“Hah, be grateful you were not playing my sister, Sir Sullivan,” Luna replied, “She would have wiped you faster than you may say ‘What the buck.’ ” When the group of adventurers took their seats, Luna began. “Sir Sullivan had chosen to make light on some of the aspects of why you came into my house, but I would like to hear more from you two.”

“So, where would you like to begin, your majesty?” Sam asked, flexing his leg to a better position.

“Let’s suppose at the top. Sullivan made light you talked to me already, and that is how you know my name, despite not being of this world. Yet how did you know me then?”

“Your future self, ma’am,” Sam answered.

Luna’s eyebrows rose, “Elaborate.”

“We were climbing a mountain, your majesty,” Sully replied, “When we came across what looked to be that castle up there,” Sully pointed to the castle on the horizon of the window.

“Canterlot Castle?” Luna said.

“Yes, ma’am,” Nathan interjected, “Where we came from, it was run-down, and severely damaged. From what we can tell, a wedding happened, but then an attack stopped it and killed everyone in attendance.”

“Wedding?” Luna mumbled, Nathan and Sam nodded, “That can’t be, the only wedding ever hosted at Canterlot Castle was…” Her eyes widened, “No!”

Luna immediately jumped out of her chair, knocking over the chess pieces in the process, “The wedding, was the mare in question an alicorn?”

“Mare?” Nathan asked, brows furrowing.

“The name of a female pony,” Sully answered, “And yes, your majesty, it was an alicorn.”

“For an ex-con, you do know a lot about equines, Sully,” Sam said, eyebrows raised.

“I studied to go undercover as a horse breeder in a scam I did a few years back,” Sully answered. “Anyways, your majesty, what’s so bad about this wedding?”

“...The only wedding to ever be hosted at Canterlot Castle,” Luna began somberly, “Is to be the one between the alicorn princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Captain Shining Armor of the Royal Guard, in three days!” Luna shouted.

“Three days?” Sam asked, “That's the time that Luna sent us back from the ‘end of Equestria’ or something.”

He watched as incredulous eyes locked onto him, “Oh, the wedding is the event, isn’t it?” He facepalmed.

With haste, Luna looked at Nate, “Sir Nathan, did future me tell you anything else?”

“Um, yeah.” Nate opened his bag and took out the teleportation scroll. “This was the teleportation scroll that future you wrote.” He handed the scroll to Luna, “She told us to give it to you, in case you didn’t believe us, to prove we aren’t lying, and then said for you to contact her three days in the future.”

Luna cast some spells on the scroll, then nodded, “This indeed was touched with my magic. Give me one second.” With a nod to the guard at the door, he closed it, then Luna began. With a grunt, she channeled magic onto the mirror above the fireplace. It levitated, before glowing a milky blue.

“Woah, what was that?” Nate asked.

“This,” Luna motioned to the mirror, “is a scrying mirror. It allows me to look at any place in Equestria, and talk with anybody with a mirror as well, similar to those ‘p-owns’ that Sir Sullivan had shown me.”

“With a little time magic,” She gestured to the mirror again, “This would allow me to look at the past and present as well. In theory, this would allow me to talk to future me, should she still have her scrying mirror as well.”

Luna then created a magic shield bubble between her and the treasure hunters, “This is for your own safety, as the ‘little magic’ I mentioned is enough to level a city if used improperly.” With a grunt of concentration, she shot a beam at the mirror. It shuddered and began vibrating. Within ten seconds, it looked like it was made of pure light, with light beams shooting out of cracks in the mirror, “Oh dear. GUARDS!”

Quickly, Luna called her guards, who lined up and added their magic to the shield spell, while Luna cast another shield spell around the mirror. Everyone believed that the mirror was going to blow up before a blast of light came out of it. When the light dimmed, they saw that the mirror, miraculously, still was in one piece.

“Guards!” Luna called to her guards, who lined up and saluted her, “Do not mention anything that transpires today to anyone outside your ranks, okay?” With a nod, the guards exited the room and closed the door. “Do not worry about them,” Luna said in response to Nate’s shocked look, “They are more disciplined than the Royal Guard or the Solar Guard, I have trust they won’t speak of what they saw.”

With a quick wave, Luna channeled her magic into the portal. On it, a holographic calendar showed she was accessing a scrying mirror in Canterlot Castle, three days into the future. With that, the mirror did some swirls, before it refocused into a room resembling what Nate, Sully, and Sam remembered as Luna’s room in the castle. When the mirror focused, they saw Princess Luna was in a duel with a changeling. The opening of the mirror seemed to have made a noise, as the changeling looked behind him to see what it was, before Luna’s sword was driven through his heart, green changeling blood spewing out.

“Hello, future me,” Luna called out.

“Hello, past me,” Future-Luna called out. Before Luna could say anything, her future self cut her off, “I know you have questions, I did as well, I mean, I’m your future self, I had this conversation already, and remember exactly what I’m supposed to talk about.” With that, Future Luna’s horn glowed, and an image of an alicorn not unlike the changeling Nate just saw, popped up. “Do you remember Queen Chrysalis?”

Luna nodded, “She took Princess Cadence hostage and left her in the caves below, and is masquerading as her in Canterlot Castle. On the wedding day, she is to let down the barrier Shining Armor has, and invade with her army.” This elicited a gasp from Luna and the treasure hunters.

“How is that possible?” Luna asked, “Does sister not have a spell to track where Cadence was all the time? Also, how does she let down the barrier, I thought only Shining Armor can do that?”

“She did,” Future Luna nodded, “But Chrysalis altered the spell to track her instead of the real Cadence. As for Shining Armor, she cast a mind-control spell on him to get him to do her bidding.”

“That is terrible!” Luna shouted, “And what of the Elements of Harmony? Shouldn’t Twilight and her friends have stopped them?”

Future Luna shook her head softly, “Twilight has left her friend group to die.” This elicited more of a shock from Luna, “During the wedding preparation, Twilight noticed that Cadence acted more off than she remembers, however when she tried to bring it up, her friends shrugged her off in favor of preparing for the wedding. It supposedly came to a head when she crashed the wedding rehearsal to bring attention to it, however, our sister didn’t believe her and banished her to the caves below. When she found an exit out with Cadence, the invasion had already begun. Instead of helping her friends, however, she decided to leave them as revenge for not listening to her. Last we saw of her, she went to the catacombs, however, we cannot find her.”

A *bang* came from Future Luna’s door, to which she raised her sword. “As far as I remember, that is all I’m supposed to tell you. Good luck!” Before Luna could say anything, the mirror was closed on the other end as Future Luna’s door came crashing down.

With heavy breathing, Luna faced Sam, Nate, and Sully, “Well, that just happened.”

As Luna paced her living room floor, the treasure hunters tried to busy themselves by playing poker. “Call,” Sully announced, before placing his cards face down and adding the last three cards, “Three of a kind,” He grinned as he flipped his cards over to show he had two 7’s, with one in the middle.

“Straight,” Nate announced, setting his cards to show 5, 6, with a 7, 8, and a 9 in the middle

Sam grinned, “Straight as well,” before showing he had a 10, and a jack.

“Goddamnit!” Nate yelled, as Sam laughed and took the pot.

“Right, that’s it.” Luna announced, pulling the adventuring trio out of their gambling state, as they both looked at her. “It seems, based on future me being there, I must be at Canterlot Castle as well during the fight in three days.” She turned to the adventuring group. “I must prepare my guards for the fight, but then that leaves you three.”

“Well, what do you suggest we do, your majesty?” Sam asked, Luna nodded, before casting a healing spell, speeding up Sam’s recovery of his leg. He pulled the cast off, then flexed his leg to make sure it still worked.

“I shall send you to the castle early. I need you to watch over Twilight while I am not there yet. You will need to supervise the wedding preparation as well, to make sure Chrysalis doesn’t do anything bad.”

She then cast another spell on the three, “This spell will give you the appearance of a pony to anyone that you don’t give permission to see the real you. This will allow you to run and walk as your normal selves, but won’t attract any suspicion. Do you understand what I am asking of you?”

Sam and Sully agreed while Nate raised his hand.

“Yes, Sir Nathan?” Luna asked.

“This is a wedding, correct?”

“Yes, what do you mean by it?” Luna asked with a raised eyebrow

He cleared his throat, then grinned, “We’re going to need some suits.”

Author's Note

Ey! Another one!

I’ve looked over my options, and have decided that I now know how to introduce the Star Wars character, and which character that is (Or rather, characters). Although that probably might be the last franchise I add into this story, as that brings my count up to 9 franchises I need to catch up on, and I’m already slamming my head on the table trying to make sense of the Skyrim universe.

Also, for dumb reasons, I’m in the process of making a THIRD story (Don’t judge me), so I’ve decided to work on an alternating schedule for To Forgive or Forget, The real Twilight, and the third story I have yet to name.

Alright, if I may, I now have to go over the plotline of Domino Squad now, so good day everybody!