With Big Key in hands, he inserts it into the big door, gives it a twist, causing the lock to fall off and its chains crumbling into dust. With the combined effect of two and a half hylians and six ponies, they force the door open. What they found inside greatly disturbed them. The walls were made of flesh, alive and pulsing. In the middle of the room floated the boss Barinade with some of its wounds healed up. There binded against the wall, was Princess Skystar, looking weak and paler in color. Seeing her in this condition made his heart drop as a memory of Tempest in the same position flashed across his mind, both were in a weaken state and bounded.

“...I’m going to kill it.” A gentle, ice cold fury coats Smooth Edge’s mental state and body all the same. Unbuckling her battle axe her muscles seem to start passively bulge out as she walks over to the boss in the middle of the room.

“Guess this fight’s gonna get messy, Least there’s no water to slow down our weapons.” Michael said, popping his neck and forelegs ready to punch the hell out of Barinade. “Seeing the Princess like that kinda makes me want to try out a possession of mine.” He states.

“Try whatever you must, as long as this monstrosity goes down for harming the youth.” Elegant Crease starts unraveling her new whip with a strangely neutral demeanor.

“I’m glad we came to the unanimous agreement on killing this thing for what it did to the princess.” Mikau, without fail, starts walking behind Smooth Edge, as do Elegant Crease, FireForge, and Snow Leap do as well.

Jeff drew out his bow, however something was different about him, especially his stance and the way he was carrying himself, his courage was channeling Farore’s orb into his arrow; filling it with crackling energy. Jeff lets it loose as it lands true, causing Barinade to light up in green electricity being shocked by a magic power that wasn’t its own.

Both twin brothers are silent the entire time as they walk towards the now injured Barinade, both horns crackling with dark red and silvery white auras. The Barinade’s tentacles now start to go lose, in an angle directed to its intruders with an invisible glare of hatred. Immediately it releases its Jellyfish which begin to spin like a carousel around it, linking to the Barniade itself with electricity. The tendrils start firing off raw blasts of now-plasma, at the group, causing everyone to move out the way.

“I’ll kill this thing…” Smooth Edge mumbles, still unconsciously dodging the blasts of lightning and near-thunderous like blasts.

“Emerald, you’re with me, Jeff… Sorry but you’ll probably be with Elegant this time.” Silver Bullet says as he readies his sword in his magical grasp as he leaps backwards from a stray Jellyfish spinning at him.

“On your word, I’ll destroy every last jellyfish so it doesn’t have any defenses.” Michael said ready to rush in.

“Good, lets bucking kill this son of a diamond dog.” Loosening his joints, Silver Bullet creates a small pathway with only two feet long squared barriers above the Jellyfish and putting his hooves together, ready to boost Emerald up. “Now, reck these things so that they won’t even be able to cry about it later!” He shouts out. And as he does, Mikau sends out three boomerang fins towards a Jellyfish that was about to hit Silver Bullet, knocking it off course.

“He he, this’ll be fun.” Michael said slamming both forelegs down on a jellyfish making it explode into mush.

Laughing maniacally, Silver Bullet stares up at the still standing barriers and looks directly at Emerald as he does it. “Now this is fun.” Putting some strain on his mind, Silver Bullet forces all of the barriers to turn into tiny spikes which fall on two unsuspecting Jellyfish who get pincushioned underneath the pressure.

Jeff decides to try out his hookclaw shots, taking one out and using it to quickly zip off to the left as Barinade tried to shock him with its electricity. When his claw clang onto the fleshy wall, the whole room vibrated, letting out an inhuman yet bubbly screech. The sound was also coming from the jellyfish host, as if this thing had bonded itself with the whole cavern. With a height advantage, Jeff aims his other clawhook shot, allowing it to grip Barinade’s tentacle limb, Elegant Crease smirks and flies near Jeff’s position and wraps her new whip into another tendril to pull it into a different direction, yanking them both away and preventing it from shooting at Emerald. With the claw still attached, Jeff channels Farore’s orb, unleashing an electric shock of Farore’s power through the chain and into Barinade.

As Jeff does that a small *boom* is heard from them all. Turning over to see the source of the noise, they all see Mikau and Smooth Edge standing on a ice platform from the ground up. Mikau and Smooth Edge sled down from it going separate ways as the Barinade fired a plasmic-like blast at the ice-manifestation, leaping from the ice platform and twirling from it, sending out five fin blades from his blurred state, two at a Jellyfish and three at the Barinade with scary accuracy. While Smooth Edge also creates a gigantic shockwave on the ground to disrupt the Barinade’s coordination. Snow Leap is standing on a freshly made ice pillar he made himself, huffing and puffing before firing two medium sized icicles at the two remaining Jellyfish.

No words are exchanged from the brothers but yet they still have an understanding, FireForge charges up his horn before releasing a constant torrent of flames at the Barinade, electing a large shriek from it.

“You’re seeing this right? It’s not just me who thinks this battle is a Tartarus crazy dance, right?” Silver Bullet asks as he watches Elegant Crease tear her whip away, ripping off some of the skin of the Barinade and causing the wound to gush blood.

“Time for the coup de grâce!” Michael shouts.

“It’s showtime then! I’ll support your move!” Silver Bullet says with a bout of excitement, his horn continuously glowing and surrounding Emerald Sword’s hooves in a silvery aura, small but sharp bumps appear on them like gauntlets.

Michael quickly speeds up next to Barinade and with a swift motion punches two medium sized holes into its body earning a loud screech. The Barinade starts trying to zap everything with its still grappled, damaged, and free tendril, making more blood come from the damaged one and shocking Elegant Crease out of the air, who quickly rolls backwards to soft the blow to the ground. And even manages to hit Mikau with the undamaged one, making him stumble backwards. The torching fire that’s continuously hitting, flaking away some of its skin is dying down as FireForge shakily backs away in exhaustion.

“Jeff! Finish it with one clean slash dude!” Michael shouts as he backs away from barinade forelegs covered in blood.

“P-please finish this sir Jeff, We’re starting to run out of fuel!” Elegant Crease grunts.

“Right! Bucking finish this by the goddesses strength!” Silver Bullet adds on.

With a mighty yell, leaps off of the wall and comes plunged toward Barinade; his red cloak flapping wildly. With a powerful thrust, Jeff pushes his silver sword deep into Barinade's body. Suddenly, the boss's body starts to rapidly swell up, causing Jeff to leap away. Its whole body explodes in a gorey mess, flinging jelly meat all around the room. With its death, Jeff slices the air, flinging the green blood off before twirling it around and sheathing it with a mighty ‘shing’.

Michael walks up to the main pile of ‘meat’ and chuckles. “Oh they’re gonna hafta glue you back together, IN HELL!” He smashes a large chunk of ‘meat’ and starts laughing. “Oh man, I’ve wanted to use that line since the first time I heard it.”

“Damn… *cough* Horseapples that was brutal.” Silver Bullet comments as he dusts himself off.

Among the messy remains of the boss, Jeff sees both a Heart Bead and a Blue Orb, which Jeff assumes is Nayru’s Orb. Quickly, Jeff eagerly takes the bead and slides it into his necklace. All five hearts beads flash brightly, quickly restore its red glow and healing all injuries, Jeff reaches over and grabs the orb, placing it into his pouch. The other three silently ponies start to walk back over, sheathing their weapons once more.

“So heart beads, nice collectable.” Michael said, trying to shake off the blood in his coat.

The rest of the room rumbles loudly as the flesh walls start to peel off and burn away. Jeff lets out a yelp as he comes running to catch Princess Skystar into his arms as the wall lets go of her. “...We need to get her back as soon as possible, she’s breathing faintly.” Jeff said as he began walking out of the room before anypony can respond.

“Get yer suits on girls, we gotta evac ASAP!” Michael said quickly following Jeff.

“Ah, hopefully this will be the last time I have to put this damn thing on.” Elegant Crease comments as she puts on the Mermaid suit. Smooth Edge says nothing in response, only putting on her Mermaid suit.

The Solar Six, a disguised hylian, the accompanied zora, and a weakened princess rush into the throne room. “Is there a room for healing?!” Jeff asked in desperation and urgency.

“Y-you’re all back already? Wait Skystar! Dammit, there’s an emergency medical block a few rooms down.” A panicking seapony swims through and takes Princess Skystar out of Jeff’s hands and rushes out of the throne room to the right.

The Queen’s fear is replaced with a strange anger. “Did you kill it… The thing that did this, did you kill it?”

“Yes Queen Novo. The Barinade has been slain. Righteously so.” Elegant Crease answers.

Smooth Edge nods her head. “Yeah, the damn thing is deader than a doornail. Wish I could’ve done more but what’s done is done.”

Mikau places a hand on his chest in slight despair. “We apologize, your majesty, we couldn’t have gotten there any faster.”

“Thank you heroes.” The Queen wipes away at their face, despite being under water she can still feel those tears streaming down her face. “Please, enjoy yourselves for the coming Full Moon Celebration as a reward. This shall truly be a day to commemorate!”

“That sounds like a relaxing idea, Thank you, Queen Novo.” Michael said with a bow still holding his nearly healed wound.

“The Full Moon Celebration?” Jeff asked curiously.

“Yes. The Full Moon Celebration. When tides are the highest and protected our ancestors from other sea creatures that would attempt to invade our land. The great goddess Nayru blessed us with such aquatic occasions.” The Queen explained.

“We’d be thankful to join Queen Novo. My team will gladly accept this offer.” Snow Leap said, weakly smiling.

Silver Bullet almost collapses on the floor after hearing this. “Oh thank Celestia. A break from all this crazy stuff that’s been going on. Hope they’ve got a bar or something like that going on.”

“Well if they do then I’m not going with Smooth. Every single time we all go out together some crazy thing happens and we all end up in ridiculous positions.” FireForge told no-pony in particular while nursing his horn.

“So, Mikau, you an’ the Indiego-gos gonna play somethin’ for the celebration?” Michael asked the zora.

“You’re a fan too? Well to answer your question yea, we actually will be. And with this new heroic feeling and mission we’ve had, I’ll make sure to give it two hundred percent!” Mikau grinned, putting both his hands on his hips.

“Sweet, it’s gonna be a blast.” Michael said with an enthusiastic smile.

“If you play as good as you fight then I’m definitely coming.” Smooth Edge chuckles, putting a hoof in the air.

“Oh, trust me, this guys pretty good at it, especially the main singer.” Jeff said as he points with a thumb toward Mikau.

“We might have to restrain Smooth then if she ends up going. She does act like a mad beast most of the time.” Elegant Crease comments.

“No the buck I don’t.” Smooth Edge silently responds.

“Whatever, I’m gonna go check out this festival when it pops off.” Snow Leap finally cools down and starts to chill.

“Oh, that reminds me..” Jeff began as he pulled out Nayru’s orb, however Novo raises her fin to object.

“No… Jeff I believe you should keep it. You and your companions have proven to be more than worthy enough to keep Nayru’s orb.”

“Are you sure?” Jeff said, earning a gentle nod from Novo. With that confirmation, Jeff puts the orb into his pouches.

“Yes, so please do not make me regret this decision, self-proclaimed hero. Never lose sight of your true ideals.” Queen Novo firmly answers.

“Sweet, you’ve got another orb. What exactly does that one do anyways?” Silver Bullet curiously asks.

“Since it’s related to the goddess of water I can only imagine it has some type of defensive capabilities.” Elegant Crease assumed.

“I’ll need to seek out another Great Fairy then.” Jeff said with a nod.

“A Great Fairy hm? Sadly I don’t actually know where any are. Sorry bro.” Mikau apologetically answers. “And as much as I’d love to sit and chit-chat, I’ve got a whole band to get back to, the guy’s have been waiting for me and I won’t let ‘em wait any longer.”

“Alright, Mikau see ya later dude, so when is this celebration happenin’?” Michael asked.

“The celebration will be taking place within ten minutes from now. I had it postponed because I wanted to wait for you all a little while longer so I could know my sweet angel would be safe.” Queen Novo says.

‘Alright, cool… you got like a rag or something’ I couldn’t get this gross blood outta my coat on the way here.” Michael said, his forelegs were still covered in a bit of monster blood.

“Actually I have a trick for that, here just get close to me.” Silver Bullet says. “My little cousin would always play in mud and hurt himself from time to time. So I took a magic course for cleaning.” Trotting closer to Emerald Sword, Silver Bullet leans down and uses his magic to make small bubbles that encase Emerald Sword’s forelegs and begins sanitizing them, flaking the blood off until it all disappears.

“I’d kill for magic like that Silver, never forget that blessing you have.” Smooth Edge sarcastically says.

Jeff heads on over to one of the many glowing orbs that gives warmth to the palace, raising his hands to get them warmed. “I have a feeling you five and the rest will be seeing alot of this sort of stuff as I have. Monsters you didn’t expect, weird races, weird magic..” Jeff pauses to replay what he’s seen since arriving in Equestria.

“And if we do face ‘em? We’ll be ready to kick major flank then, for friendship!” FireForge happily says.

“For protecting the world we love!” Silver Bullet shouts.

“For comedic effect!” Smooth Edge jokingly says.

“For the sake of knowledge.” Elegant Crease adds.

“For family and those we care about.” Snow Leap, seemingly going with the flow.

Jeff couldn’t help but burst out laughing at the things they were exclaiming. “You’re all goofs, but lovely goofs.” Jeff said as he goes to ruffle up their manes, some of them approving it, others not so much.

“You guys do work well together I’ll admit.” Michael said with a nod. “Keep up the good work.” He said as he swam past the group and up to a glowing orb.

“Did you really have to muss up our manes like that when we’re in front of royalty?” Elegant Crease questioned with a scrunched up snout.

“Don’t let me get in the way of you all acting as if you’d normally act.” Queen Novo cheekily says. Much to Elegant Crease’s slight displeasure.

“I’m glad we’re all like family now. And as a family, we’re all gonna go see that celebration and make it one Tartarus of a time.” Snow Leap softly announces.

“This cultural experience will be something to take note of for later. Sure, and perhaps it shall be normal for once?” Elegant Crease seemingly asks the universe.

“Elegant… C’mon you know that’s never happening.” Silver Bullet plainly told her.

“Consider this a time to relax and have fun, I just hope the celebration isn’t hard to celebrate for us non-seaponies.” Jeff said as he rubs his hands together now that his body is all warmed up.

“Here’s to hoping big guy, here’s to hoping.” Smooth Edge said as she swim upwards out of the group huddle with her forelegs crossed. “Let's go and hang out till this festival, celebration or whatever it was called, starts up. We’re gonna be having lots of fun tonight everypony!” Pumping a hoof in the air she manages to get a cheer out of the group.

“If there’s games I need to get somethin’ for Twilight.” Michael says thinking of what would be good. “And maybe Spike too…” He says lost in thought.

“Hold up, do you have enough rupees though?” Jeff asked in concern.

Michael snaps back to reality as he nonchalantly reaches behind himself and pulls a Child Rupee wallet out of thin air. “Hang on…” He reaches into the wallet and after rummaging around a bit, he sighs. “Thirteen rupees… damn…”

“What… That’s about the fifth or fourth time today where you’ve made me question reality. How exactly did you do that?” FireForge asks.

“Hmm?” Michael looks at the five solar guards and nervously laughed. “How’d you like my magic trick, been practicing my sleight of hand…” He said with a fake smile.

“Nah don’t… Don’t do that, I know how you did that, I know what you are on the inside!” Smooth Edge shouts from above. “Plus I was floating up here, how’d you expect anypony to not notice that?”

At a loss for words Michael just continues staring back at the solar guards figuratively sweating bullets.

Snow Leap swims an inch forward. “You know, originally I was going to wait until we arrived back at Canterlot but my brother and Smooth make a good point. Ever since you, Smooth, Elegant, and Jeff left that room together, Smooth seemed like she was stooped out of her mind, like the time she saw an new battle airship for the first time. Why is that?”

“...I mean why question this when you’ve seen me kind of do the same thing?” Jeff asked as he reached into his pouch, soon pulling out his Hero’s Bow, which grew to its full size.

“But that’s the thing… Only a Hylian like you could do something like that, which can only make me assume one thing…” Snow Leap says with a squint of his eyes.

“That he’s incredibly homosexual-” Silver Bullet slaps Smooth Edge over the head.

“Wha- no, that he’s also a Hylian. Smooth what the buck did you think I was going to- you know what it’s best not to even ask.” Snow Leap tiredly says. “So am I at least a little close?” The snow white stallion asks.

“Ok… Can we do this… somewhere else… enough figurative weapons are being pointed at me and I’d like privacy to explain i guess…” He says looking around at the multitude of seapony guards and Queen Novo herself who all are staring curiously at the group.

“That might be for the best…” Elegant Crease said with some doubt.

“Ah.. Right! Let’s go see what the Full Moon Celebration has to offer.” Jeff said as he starts walking out, feeling awkward how he got a little caught up in the moment.

“Yeah, yeah, Full Moon Celebration, let’s a go.” Michael quickly pulled his rupee savings out of his wallet and put it away then followed Jeff.

All of the pony, and hylian(s) left the throne room, swimming out with a small lurking question in their heads except for a select few. But one thing was for certain. Jeff’s first days with his new family were and already are, weird.

With twenty one rupees in hand, Jeff wonders the town of Seaquestria. Many of the celebrators had set up their stands, ranging between mini games, shops, and places to eat. There were quite a array of colorful seaponies swimming to and fro the streets. To Jeff's curiosity, many of the zora's sporting their whites and blue, not one red among them much like the queen.

"Come stand right up! Try your luck at the diving mini game! Rush through the thicker waters, collect the rupees, and win a special prize!" A voice shouted out, drawing Jeff's attention. "Five rupees per play!" the voice shouted as Jeff got near. What the hylian saw, was some kind of pool, except inside was a much deeper and thicker shade of blue despite they were under the ocean.

"Hiya hylian! Been years since I last your kind, what do you say, wanna give it a try?" The Zora asked.

"Sure." Jeff said as he handed the Zora his red rupee, and got a Yellow rupee and a Blue rupee as change.

"Three two one, go!" The Zora announced as Jeff dove into the deep blue of the pool. At first, Jeff had a hard time seeing everything, that is untill he saw the gleaming of the rupees shining through. One push at a time from the pool's floor as the Zora watched his Stop Watch counting down, the hylian went for the closest Green ones first, earning him extra seconds to get the rest, each step he took pushing him through the dark blue waters. At the last second, Jeff managed to grab the very last rupee, much to his relief.

"...I'll be a son of a Nayru.. You're the first to dive so well! here's your prize!" The Zora said as he held out his hands. Jeff blinked in surprise as he was handed a beautiful silver zora scale, with it in hand, he felt the pressure of the ocean somewhat lift itself over him, allowing him to walk a little smoother, Jeff puts the Zora Scale into his pouches.

"Wanna go again and see if you can set a record? Fastest time is four seconds by Mikau!" The Zora said, earning a surprised look from Jeff.

"A-ah, no, that's ok.. i'm good." Jeff said as he held up his hands.

"Suit yourself." The Zora said with a shrug of his arms. With a wave of his hand, Jeff resumes walking through Seaquestria. Alot of the food stands didn't look all that appealing due to how weird the foods looked. "..Wait, is that an Octorok?" Jeff mentally said as he saw what looked to be a fried octoroc on a stick. Jeff snorted in amusement as he remembered CDi Link's words of being so hungry they'd eat an octorok.

After a bit more wondering, Jeff's pointed ears caught someone telling a story. Out of curiousity, Jeff found what looked to be an elder seapony talking to a group of kid seaponies about the Full Moon Celebration.

"Long ago, a goddess in seapony form descend from the heavens known as Nayru, over the years when she used to live among us, she became revered for her grace and wisdom. She was known for her kindness and love for the creatures of the sea, especially when she gave the moon its power to protect the underwater kingdom of Seaquestria from all danger. With the monsters kept at bay, she returned to the heavens.,

Once a year during a full moon, the inhabitants of Seaquestria would gather to celebrate the beauty and power of the goddess, who had blessed them with a symbol of her protection. Over the years, the full moon celebration has become a staple event in the kingdom, and it is still celebrated today." The elder pony said

"But why didn't it save us this time?" a young seapony asked

"Ah, but it did by sending a hero. As you can see, Barinade was slain by a Jeff and his friends, and tonight is the full moon celebration, just in time." the elder seapony explained.

Not wanting to disrupt the group, Jeff quiet walked away to check out the rest of the celebration. After many hours of excitement, Jeff is heading back up to his room for one final moment of peace.

Michael is spotted exiting Jeff and his shared room with a fearful look on his muzzle. “How am I gonna do this…” He says deep in thought.

“Oh hey, Mike, thought you were still out enjoying yourself.” Jeff said with surprise.

“Oh… Hey, Jeff… I was out there but I had to put the thing I got from winning a game… figured I might do it away from others… for once…” He said with a sigh.

“Ah, well, before you head back out, there’s something I need to discuss with you.” Jeff said as he pats Mike’s pony shoulder, then walks past him into the room.

“Oh yeah? What’s eating at your mind?” Michael asked as he followed Jeff into the room.

“About this token business, remind me again how you do it?” Jeff asked curiously as he sat down onto the seabed.

“As I said yesterday, Find your token, I could be anything significant, and prepare to be exhausted.” Michael started explaining. “I made my token by concentrating on my Fairy Ocarina as I held it in my hands. I poured all of my energy into the Ocarina and it cloned itself, I said my summoning message and it disappeared into the void between realms.”

“But how do you pour your energy into it? Is it done by mental focus or…” Jeff pauses to allow Mike to answer.

“Honest to whatever deity watches over us, I just closed my eyes and thought really hard about making a token and It happened.” He said honestly.

Jeff blinked in confusion of how simple it was to do in comparison to everything he’s learned that required something to make it happen, like the orb of Farore requiring him to have Courage. The hylian raises his hand and stares at it, then closes his eyes to mentally think about it. At first, the green energy of Farore started to manifest into his hands, but then his mind drifts off think about the Twili magic that Midna used, then slowly his mind drifted off to the Pirate’s Charm from Windwaker. After much focus, out of no where Twili magic energy started to fly in all directions as if he had found a fused shadow. Within the palm of his hand was a black and green floating Howling Stone on a tied piece of string being very close to his previous time incarnation’s token. Jeff opened his eyes as he stared down in surprise at his token.

“Holy crap… you did it!” Michael said with excitement. “Now speak your summon message, if you want one of course, not sure if it’s required.” Michael says, scratching his head.

“I am Jeff, the hero incarnation of Link. Repeat this song that resonates from the stone’s eye as it will be a reflection of your heart. Afterwards you will be brought into a plain of existence to speak in private with me, I need to make sure you are of a pure heart and not that of a wicked one.” Jeff said, and with those words spoken, a twili portal manifested out of thin air, pulled his token in and soon vanished, however moments later it returned his Howling Stone, then vanished quickly. “..What exactly happened?” Jeff asked in confusion.

“That's different from what happened to mine but I assume it was just transported to other Equestrias.” Michael said with an ounce of skepticism. “Though it might be a while before it gets to any other Equestrias, mine took nearly a month.” He said with a shrug. Suddenly, Mike feels a sudden vibration around his neck.

“..What just happened? Felt like everything paused for a split second..” Jeff said as he shook his head. Michael quickly closed his eyes and a split second later the Howling stone necklace was gone from around his neck.

“You did it, you made a token.” Michael said playing off the time jump. “Good job, you might wanna eat somethin’ to recover stamina.”

“Feels like I went swimming in the pool for two hours and I feel like I still am.. You know that feeling right where your limbs are moving but they’re not?” Jeff explained.

“Oh yeah bud, I passed out when I made my token, thank god I was on my bed when I did it.” Michael admits.

Jeff quickly shakes his body to get rid of the weird feeling. “I just hope I placed enough safeguards.” Jeff said with a nod. The hylian looks out the window and gazes at the flickering of moonlight of the ocean surface in a attempt to judge the time of night.

“So we leaving for canterlot or we gonna stay one final night?” Michael asked, turning back to the door to the room. “I’ll tell the squad whichever one you choose.”

“...Think i’ll take a shortcut with them, come on.” Jeff said as he got up off the bed and started head out of the castle; his eyes flicking around looking for something. Upon leaving the entrance, he spots an Owl Statue overgrown with seaweed. “Perfect.” Jeff said as he gives its a strike with his sword, causing it to glow a bright white before causing its stone wings to spread out with a flourish.

“You know… I saw that earlier and was wrackin my brain trying to remember what it was.” Michael said.

“..The Owl Stone, you know? Majora’s Mask?” Jeff said as he gesture with his hand toward it.

“OH! Yeah, you’re right I guess all that seaweed confused me, I guess I was tired.” Mike shrugged.

“That’s one way to get high on seaweed.” Jeff said jokingly with a playful smirk.

“... I’ll let that one slide… Just know it wasn’t very good, and I’m still stressing about the guards.” Michael said with a sigh.

“It was worth a shot though.” Jeff said with a shrug as he sat down, waiting for the rest of the crew to get back from the festitive.

And right on cue, five different ponys walked in, noticeably two of them were bruised. Smooth Edge and Silver Bullet refused to acknowledge their injuries however and instead admired their hard faucet Seaquestrian drip.

“..What in the name of the Dark Sacred Realms did you guys get into? Some kind of contest of who can beat someone in a ring?” Jeff asked with a frown.

“Huh?” Smooth Edge looks up from one of their bracelets made of seashells. “I’ve got no idea what you’re talking about dude.”

FireForge can only pinch their snout in disappointment. “These two had drank too much hard cider together, decided that since seaponies have no hooves they could take a group in a fight since they were escalating a situation and both nearly lost instead of deescalating it themselves. Which we then had to pull them out of the cold ocean water and then dunk them both back in to sober them up. That being said we all need to leave because we have some local authority coming for us.”

“...Hylia damnit.” Jeff said as he pulled out his ocarina. “I”m doing this once, but you’d best report to Celestia, because no doubt Novo will tell her, grab onto my cloak.” Jeff said as he quickly placed the mouth piece to his lips.

Everypony puts a hoof on Jeff in preparation, silently making prayers in their heads. Each of them being something different.

Playing the song of soaring, a pair of silver white wings sprout behind Jeff, wrapped around the whole group, and with a flurry of feathers, teleported them out of Seaquestria.

A ball of energy flies out from above the sky, soon placing the group onto the grounds of the Canterlot Gardens.

“Phew, we’re all safe now and back at home, now I can permanently take this sucka off.” Smooth Edge happily throws off their Mermaid suit with a dopey smile before dry huffing.

“I guess that teleportation takes a little to get used to.” Michael says holding his head dizzy from the spinning.

“Jeez, now I’ve got a killer headache… Buck I’m probably gonna go to sleep.” Silver Bullet says, swaying from side to side.

“And that’s what you two get for drinking while still technically being on the job.” Elegant Crease holds up their snout, feeling superior in a way to them both.

“I’ll allow you all to go to our barrack. I’ll go… Report to Celestia myself.” Snow Leap says.

Jeff raises a hand. “Actually if you don’t mind, Emerald and I will go report to Celestia.”

“Why would you wanna do that exactly? And you both still haven’t really explained what Emerald really is to the others. Not that I actually care.” Smooth Edge told Jeff.

“Actually… I think revealing myself to everyone would be the right thing to do, especially with Celestia here as well.” Michael said with a sigh. “I don’t want her freaking out when she doesn’t find an ‘Emerald Sword’ in Ponyville.”

“Why are you choosing to reveal yourself now all of a sudden? You could’ve left and nopony would really be indifferent… Unless we were sent by Princess Celestia herself to investigate you.” FireForge asked.

“That’s exactly why, so Celestia doesn't burden anypony with trying to find ‘Jeff’s first friend outside canterlot’,” Mike answered.

“Mike has a point though, something tells me she’d keep asking me how Emerald Sword is doing.” Jeff pointed out.

“Suit yourself, Smooth I can already see it on your muzzle and Elegant is physically holding you back right now, so just do whatever it was that you were going to do.” In the background, Elegant Crease is or rather was holding onto Smooth Edge who seemed to be going berserk, akin to a spoiled child that some person would find in a mall. As she was let go she happily trots up to Emerald Sword and with no amount of enthusiasm spared said this.

“Finally, I’ll get to reveal who you really are on the inside!” Putting her hoof onto his face she yanks back with her grip… And only accomplishes tugging on Emerald Sword’s snout. “Ah why won’t this bucking thing come off?” She yanks even harder on Emerald’s muzzle.

“Ahh, stop that hurts!” Michael yelped as tears started forming in his eyes. “I’ll do it myself, STOP!” He tries to push Smooth away.

“Okay this is going too far, bro help me get her off of him!” Snow Leap uses his magic to try and pull Smooth Edge off of Emerald Sword’s face which only causes more surface tension for him. Her earth pony strength seems unwaivering until FireForge uses his magic to yank Smooth Edge way, tossing her backwards and crashing into the both of them.

“Could you ponies shut up for like three seconds.” Silver Bullet says while sprawled out on the ground and nursing their raging headache. “Sometimes I wonder how we all haven’t been kicked out of every library imaginable.”

“Its a magical mask, damnit, not costume.” Jeff said as he goes to slap Smooth Edge’s wrist.

“Owie, you guys always bully me for no reason. I’m nothing but a perfect angel and you all treat me like this.” Smooth Edge says in a childish tone of voice.

Elegant Crease looks at Smooth Edge, on the verge of an aneurysm. “I will strangle you Smooth if you ever say something as stupid as that ever again.”

“You know… with all this noise, I’m surprised Celestia ain’t out here already.” Michael says rubbing his muzzle trying to make the pain go away.

“Oh I am my little pony, but you all are far too entertaining for me to butt in so soon.” A silky voice says from above.

“How the Flying Pot are you so silent?” Jeff asked with a frown.

“Silencing spell, quite nifty when you had a little sis- I mean, several students in the past who would try and sneak around.” The monarch responded with a smile. “So I assume your mission was successful?”

“For the most part, a couple of close calls, and there were moments we had some disagreements.” Jeff explained.

“Excellent, that sounds simply excellent Jeff! Oh how I’m glad to hear that everything went as good as it could get for you all. However I can only hope that in the future none of you will be bruised like Lance Corporal Silver Bullet and Sergeant Smooth Edge… Oh and you there, poor Emerald, you seem to have a cut on yourself. Let me take care of it.” Flying down to their level, Celestia puts her horn on Emerald Sword’s injury and mends it. “All better now.”

“Oh right, thank you, Princess, but there’s actually something I need to talk to you about, along with the solar guards here.” Michael said.

“It’s the fact that you aren’t a pony, right?” The princess asked. “That arguing about showing everypony here and I quote “who you really are” while trying to take away your face only for Jeff to say it’s a magical mask really tells it all. So then, tell me and everypony else. Who are you?”

Michael clears his throat. “Here goes nothin’...” He reaches up his forelegs to the side of his muzzle and a bright light fills the area. The light fades and there before everypony is Michael’s true form, a hylian just like Jeff. “This is who I truly am, I am a hylian, specifically i’m an incarnation of the hero Link, but of a different age.” He said with a bow. “Please forgive me for lying to you all about my identity.” He apologized.

“You’re… You’re Link then? I… I’m at a loss for words, it’s no wonder why your cutiemark was so peculiar, how ready you were to do militaristic tasks, and make friends with Jeff who has been a little reclusive in his first days of Canterlot.”

“To be more specific, Celestia, he’s from a whole different world separate from our own.” Jeff said to clear up some confusion. The hylian then pulls out Mike’s Fairy Ocarina. “I summoned him to our world, it's a long story.” Jeff said with a nod.

“Jeff and I are what is known as Displaced, People ripped from our home world, forced into a multitude of possible Equestrias, and changed by the one that forced us here.” Michael said standing up straight again. “What Jeff holds now is a token, a means of summoning other Displaced to your Equestria to help.”

“In my case, some goddess ripped me from my world and made me what I am now, or at least from what the Golden Wolf told me back in the Everfree, not to be confused with the timberwolf named Everfree.” Jeff explained.

“I bought an item from an evil entity known as the merchant, and was thrown into my own Equestria, though my world is not as yours is, there are major differences, too many to explain within’ a reasonable time frame though.” Michael said.

“The… merchant? World differences? So you’re from both an alternate universe and perhaps even an alternate timeline as well?” Princess Celestia questioned.

“You can think of it like that.” Michael chuckled.

“Dudddde, when I first saw you like this I thought there were just more hylians out there. But you’re basically a whole alien?! Ah that’s sick!” Smooth Edge gets up closer to Michael, even more curious than before.

“Alien… I don’t like that but it’s more true than I would like…” Michael said with a frown. “OH!” Michael reached under his shield and pulled out his Rupee wallet. “That thing you saw me do before was how my inventory works, like Jeff's pouches but invisible.” He smiled. “Come in real handy, though I couldn’t use all my items as a pony, I’m kinda surprised no one noticed that ‘Emerald Sword’ didn’t carry a sword…” He said with air quotes.

A large thump is heard on the ground as Silver Bullet’s head could no longer be supported and he fully falls asleep. “Well then that sports a few questions. Number one, you’ve showcased this inventory ability in the past which basically allows you to pull something from nothing, is that some sort of spacial magic? Number two, these ‘displaced’ as you call them, are they all just incarnations of Link? If not then give out some examples of what a displaced person could be?” Elegant Crease inquired, moving over to pick up Silver Bullet on her withers.

“...Come to think of it, what exactly is restricting you from using your stuff?” Jeff asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Welp, you might not believe or understand but, I have game mechanics… Jeff you would know about them but the ponies in the area are probably thinking board games.” Michael starts explaining. “I can only use items that the hylian or pony would be able to use without changing things, take my bow for example.” He quickly puts away his wallet and retrieves his bow. “It’s made for my true form, pretty hard to use a full size bow as a pony.”

“Sounds like a pain..” Jeff said with a shake of his head.

“Worst part is I have hearts.” He removes his left gauntlet and shows a small HUD on his wrist like a tattoo.

“That’s even worse, three hits and you’d be out..” Jeff said as he felt sorry for Mike

“So this boon does not come without flaws then? And these ‘game mechanics’ are the source of this strange magic.” Elegant Crease said.

“There’s definitely flaws, I can’t take very much damage without dying, for a lack of a better term. That spear that pierced my arm, nearly killed me.” Michael explained putting his gauntlet back on. “If you noticed after that hit I started to look exhausted suddenly.”

“That sounds so very tempting to have as a power. But it’s not for me, and I can say that with certainy. But you still didn’t answer Elegant’s question, are all displaced simply Links from different eras and incarnations?” Snow Leap pressed.

“Oh right, Displaced are most definitely not just more Links, not everyone on my home world are like him, they would probably be forced here as other heroes from other worlds, or maybe even some villains…” Michael says with a bit of uncertainty.

“I apologize for interjecting my litt- I mean Michael. But have you encountered any other displaced besides Jeff that could be used as examples?” The solar monarch asked.

“Sadly I’ve only encountered another Link, so I can’t give another example, sorry.” Michael said with a frown.

“Well other than me, of course.” Jeff said with a shrug as he leaned against the nearby pillar.

“Now, I feel my time here is coming to an end, Jeff remember, call me anytime bud, I’ll always help if you need it, ready to send me back home?” Mike said with a smile. Jeff raises his leather gauntlet covered fist up in a gesture of an offered fist bump. “See you again sometime bro,” Mike said with a chuckle as he put his fist up and they bumped, making their triforce pieces glow for a moment.

“By the way, How do I send you back? Give the ocarina a toot?” Jeff asked.

“All you gotta do is say this phrase, ‘thank you for your help, Hero of Time, you may return to your world’, and play another note of the Fairy Ocarina.” Mike answered.

“I’ll do one better for you. Hero Of Time, you may return to your world.” Jeff said before placing the Fairy Ocarina’s tip to his mouth, however instead of playing one note, he played Zelda’s Lullaby, making a familiar reminder to Mike’s mind.

A blue cylinder of light appeared around Michael lifting him off the ground. “That worked? Alright see ya later dude!” He shouted as the pillar of light flew him into the sky and made him vanish with a flash of light.

With Mike gone from his world, Jeff places the Fairy Ocarina into his pouch. “Good to know I’m not the only one.” Jeff said with relief thanks to Mike clearing up alot of Jeff’s questions.

“Guess you’ve got another brother in your life then, and a brother of Jeff’s is always gonna be a family member of ours. Except maybe for Smooth, she’s weird.” FireForge blatantly pointed out.

“Dammit I’m not weird you guys…” Smooth Edge said in her defense

“..A brother, ha, I suppose that makes sense.” Jeff said as both he and Mike were given bodies of the fabled heroes

Princess Celestia’s wings flap with joy. “My little ponies, you’ve all done something amazing this day. Once you rest I hope to you all that there are only sweet dreams in your minds. Have a goddess blessed night.” The princess smiles as she trots away, back inside and having her mind finally cleared.

Author's Note

A small reminder that despite you read Jeff making his token, I promise you won't be reading anymore cross-overs in this story. I'll be keeping them separated from the main story. Small note, the little story told by the Elder Seapony, I'm not 100% happy with, so it is subjected to change later on.