P.O.V. Drake, who is dreaming.

After we talked for a bit we all went to Sunset's place because literally everyone else's was consumed by the invading worlds. So I'm currently sleeping on the couch however my dream is pleasant... ish.

I'm sitting in a lawn chair drinking sweet tea. I'm by a familiar beach. It reminds me of home...

"Mind if I sit beside you?" I hear a beautiful voice say.

I look where the voice came from and I see an old friend from the first universe I managed to get trapped in way before Equestria.

A tall woman, a brunette with long hair, a decent sized chest, and the most beautiful emerald green eyes.

"Hey, Moni, yeah go ahead. Are you part of the dream or are you, you?" I ask.

"I'm manifesting myself within your dreamscape and making sure you're nightmarish memories don't ruin the mood." She replies.

"Right, so you're kinda here." I say understanding only parts of what she said.

"If that's how you understand it." She replies shaking her head.

"So what brings you by early? If I remember correctly your odd powers usually need about six months to recover after visiting me and it's only been maybe a month." I ask.

"Well it seems the walls within the multiverse are breaking down where you're located and I wanted to warn you that the others and I will be arriving within a few hours." Moni replies.

"You mean you're bringing Nats, Yuri, and Sayori? How?" I ask.

"The walls of the multiverse are so fragile where you're at that I can actually manage to get all of us there without a significant risk to our health. And don't worry I have a plan to explain our arrival to your current company." She replies

"Uhhh... English please?" I ask confused

"The area in the multiverse you're located has walls that I can break without breaking us." She says

"Oh."

"Now I remember why I hated explaining stuff to you." She says with a sigh.

"But you still loved me right?" I reply

"Once, a long time ago I did." She says solemnly.

"It's not my fault what happened." I reply glumly.

"I couldn't agree more, Bone-head." She says with a smirk.

"Of course, Your Highness." I get up and bow in front of her while smirking.

"I thought we agreed you'd never do that again." She says.

"I still remember when you were drunk and said "bow to your highness and say my name" in front of all of your friends. I only complied because I knew someone would take a picture." I say getting up.

"And I still don't understand why." She says as she also stands up.

"You never will either." I say finishing my tea.

"Well I'd say we've had our fun but you'll be waking up soon and it seems the others and I will be there in an hour. Be sure to check your phone." She says.

"I will Moni. For you I always will." I say smiling.

She laughs as I am abruptly awoken by RD straddling me holding a uncapped sharpie.

"Morning." I say scaring the daylight out of her.

P.O.V. Coral, who thinks it's too damn early, and is right.

I wake to the sound of someone screaming like a bitch. A shrill ear piercing sound that I've hear far too many times... just never so damn early in the morning.

I check the time on my phone only to realize how right I am, it's seven thirty in the morning, the sun hasn't had the proper time to to get past the horizon yet. I grumble as I walk down the stairs. As I reach the bottom I notice Rainbow Dash flat on her ass and Drake stretching as he clearly woke up.

"Mornin'." Drake says almost to quietly to hear, still stretching.

"Which one of you screamed like a bitch?" I ask with annoyance.

"Her." Drake replies as he stands up and walks towards the kitchen.

Rainbow Dash looks some combination of confused and scared as she gets up grabbing a sharpie with no cap. I raise an eyebrow at her as she looks at me sheepishly as she scurries away.

I hear Drake whistle a tune in the kitchen as I decide to sit on the couch. I look to the side as I see something out of the corner of my eye happen out the window.

"What the fuck?" I ask quietly as I see the empty field across from us shimmering and warping strangely with different colors warping in and out.

Drake walks back and flops down on the couch somehow not spilling any of his coffee.

He glances to the side then turns on the television in front of the couch we're sitting on.

"Not very subtle, Monika." I hear him say barely audible.

Before I can ask what or who monika is I hear a loud groan come from the stairs as Sunset shambles down tiredly.

I stop looking at the warped reality across from us as it starts to glitch much like a game.

"You drink coffee, kid?" Drake asks.

"Only if it's decaf." I reply looking at him now.

He shrugs then sips his coffee.

"So how do you like yours?" I ask hoping to get a good conversation with Drake going so maybe I can understand him better.

"Black double sweet. Makes it bittersweet." He says as he sips again.

He says nothing for another thirty seconds before he asks "Why do you care, kid? I'm sure you don't actually care about what coffee I drink."

"Fine. You got me. I'm more interested in you. When we first met you seemed grumpy and unhappy, yet when trouble popped up you snuck away and went right to it to stop it. Why?" I reply knowing lying would do no good.

He raises an eyebrow while looking at me. He then chugs the rest of his coffee, which is still steaming mind you, then slams the coffee mug down on the coffee table, surprisingly not breaking either of the objects.

"You'll wait and learn with the rest of them, kid." He says.

His phone goes off not one second later, his alarm being string of piano notes. He looks at his phone and smiles.

"Whelp I'll be outside if you need me." He says loudly then he leans close to my ear and whispers, "if anyone asks I'm taking a piss." He then walks out the door closing it behind him.

Sunset walks back from the kitchen with a coffee cup that has less coffee in it than Drake's did before he drank it all.

"Jackass, got three fourths of the fuckin' coffee." Grumbled Sunset.

"How'd you sleep?" I ask.

"Great until Rainbow burst in. I'm surprised nobody else got up." Sunset says.

The door then opens as Applejack comes in dragging Drake behind her.

"I saw him tryin' ta sneak off." Applejack says picking up Drake setting him in front of us.

"And I would've gotten away with it if you weren't outside." Drake replies.

"Besides I wasn't leaving. I was investigating." Drake says.

"Bullshit, you were headed towards Canterlot!" AJ practically yells.

"You don't know that." Drake says crossing his arms and turning his head away from everyone.

"Hmph."

I sigh and facepalm while Sunset grumbles.

I hear the sound of footsteps coming from the stairs and see the other girls have all woken up, with the exception of Rainbow who was already up, and are walking downstairs to see all of the commotion.

Once everyone is seated, be it on the couch or the floor we start discussing what we should do, with the exception of Drake who was quiet and more focused on his phone.

"We can't just sit here and do nothing!" Rainbow practically screeches.

"I'm inclined to disagree darling, there's no telling what an adventure of this sort would do to my wardrobe." Rarity replies.

"It'll be fun!" Pinkie Pie yells happily while throwing confetti everywhere.

"Ahm sick and tired of dealin' with magic I say let this all blow over." Applejack chimes in.

Before anyone else says a damn thing Drake stands up and walks out the door not once looking at any of us.

P.O.V. Drake, who is actually very stressed.

I look over at the house that now resides where there once was an empty field. I breathe in deeply. Then breathe out. I check my phone and read the message.

"We're here." it reads.

I continue to stare waiting. A breeze blows and footsteps are heard behind me.

"You know, Coral, I'd appreciate some time to myself." I say not taking my eyes off the house.

"Well everyone else would like your input on where to go because we're all divided and your thoughts would be appreciated." She states.

"Tell them we wait until tomorrow. I'll have a plan by then." I reply.

"They aren't going to like that."

"If it's my input they want then that's my answer."

My phone goes off. I check it and see a new message.

"Meet us at KFC. Don't be late."

I smile as I put my phone away.

"I'm going for a walk don't follow me." I say as I walk off.

P.O.V. Coral, not long after Drake left.

"... then he left, so I came back in and told you what he said." I finish explaining to an agitated Sunset.

"You let him walk off without giving you a location!" Sunset says back.

"As far as he's concerned he answers to no one." I reply.

"He can't be trusted!" Sunset replies back.

"I trust him more than you. All I've been hearing is you badmouthing him without reason" I say slowly getting more agitated myself.

The others, while also displeased, didn't voice their thoughts on the matter and were more accepting of Drake's rather odd actions.

"He could be working to further the destruction of the world." Sunset says.

"Prove it." I say.

"What?" Sunset replies angrily

"Prove to me that he's trying to destroy the world." I say with such seriousness that the others look up from whatever they were doing.

P.O.V. Drake, with a bucket of chicken.

NOM.

"Seriously? You're eating now?" Asks the short pink haired girl known as Natsuki standing in front on me.

"I'm hungry and I have a bucket of chicken what do you expect?" I reply back with a lot of sass.

She just stares at me trying to formulate a response that's appropriate.

"So where's the others? It was implied that everyone else would be here." I ask in between bites of chicken.

"Yuri went to the bathroom, Sayori went to go pet a puppy, and Monika disappeared right before you bumped into me." Natsuki replies.

"Sounds about right." I say eating another chicken leg.

"And just what is that supposed to mean?" I hear from right behind me.

I turn around to see Monika standing about six feet away from me with an unamused look on her face. I take another bite of chicken as I stare at her blankly, waiting for her to break the near silence between us. We continue to stare for another thirty seconds before Natsuki speaks.

"Hey Yuri, guess who showed up?"

"Did he really show up or are you pulling my leg?" I hear a quiet yet refined voice say as I take a rather large bite out of the chicken leg I'm holding.

I swallow the chicken in my mouth very loudly as I reply with a smirk "Do we get to finish the book we were reading or are you still rather grumpy that I borrowed your knife without asking?"

"So you did take my knife!" Yuri yells as I turn to face her.

Her face turns red and she looks away mortified.

"I-I'm s-sorry I don't know what c-came over me." Yuri replies meekly.

"It's fine. I'm used to women yelling at me for doing things even if I didn't actually do them. Besides that was probably loud enough to attract the attention of..."

SLAM!!

"Ow!" I yelp loudly as someone slams into me, knocking me to the ground.

I manage to save the bucket of chicken before it hits the ground. Somehow none of the chicken actually left the bucket.

"Ooooooow!" I hear someone say.

"Hey Sayori." I say still lying on the ground.

P.O.V. Coral, who's still unhappy.

"So you can't prove it." I say.

"Look I only know what I was told through the princess." Sunset snarks at me.

"And so you're going off the account of a princess that writes to you every now and then instead of giving him a chance." I say.

"..."

"See my point?" I ask.

Sunset continues to bitch at me but I tune it out, mostly because I don't actually care, and start thinking about my options with the current situation involving the other worlds that appear to be creeping in. I can't do anything alone I know that much, it's too dangerous and there are many unknown variables. However getting help from anyone seems unlikely, except Drake, but he's nothing but a wild card that much I do understand.

Author's Note

Guess who's back? (from hell if anyone's concerned) It is I! Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. Life has been a pain this last little while but I assure you there will be more chapters coming (hopefully sooner rather than later but we'll see.) Don't worry though as I am in a much better mental state than I was and thus this story should continue as planned.