The first thing I did in the morning was wake up, wow, that’s hilarious. The next thing I did was head for where Twilight and the rest of the girls were staying. They were staying in the guest hall of the Crystal Palace after I visited the kitchens. I have ice cream cake that I had requested to be made for this specific hour. It’s right before Celly has to go raise the Sun. I know she’s doing just a little bit better, but I wanted to hammer that good mood that Celly was returning to, to the ground. She’s still asleep, so I have her breakfast, along with the slice of ice cream cake, being carted. A small smile grew on my face as I approached.

When I knocked Twilight’s door, the mare herself opened it.

“Celly awake yet?” I asked.

“Source, you’re scarily good with the timing today; Princess Celestia needs to get up in exactly two minutes to raise the Sun.”

“Good, right on time,” I bowed. “May I come in?” I asked.

Twilight giggled and did a theatrical bow. “Of course, my dear husband-”

“Twi,” I chuckled. “Man, you’ve changed a lot in the last year; you’re a pleasure to hangout with now.”

“Yeah…” Twilight chuckled. “I know that, when I was a shut in, I was a bit of…”

“A dick,” I said flatly as I walked past Twilight.

“...For a lack of a better word, yes. I was a dick,” she nodded. “I’m a lot better now, if you’re saying it at least.”

“Yeah, proper bro material,” I hugged her. “You’re a good mare, Twilight.”

Twilight started blushing. “Uh…” She giggled awkwardly. “Thank you, Source.”

“D’aw, can't you handle a compliment?” I asked.

Twilight rolled her eyes and swatted me with her tail. “Just go greet your wife, Source. Before I toss you out the window.”

“You wouldn’t do that, a year ago, you would.” I walked past her to see… Celly just as she was waking up. This was perfect. I left the cart by the door, as I could just levitate everything to me as needed. Right as my Sun had woken up, she looked around and blinked; she probably forgot that she went to sleep in Twilight’s room rather than our room. Her eyes fell on me and her smile grew. I said nothing as I tiptoed over and sat down in front of her.

“Hey Celly,” I greeted. “You feelin’ better?” I asked.

“Source, I felt better since your little talk with me yesterday,” Celly said. She was being truthful. Celly, when she’s in wife mode, is always honest with me. “Why have you spent all of yesterday and this morning trying to ‘cheer me up’? You should be better at reading me by now,” she said as I prepped her favorite tea right in front of her.

“Okay so, I may have brought you out of your funk, but when have you felt exceptionally good? I know being hugged by that colt yesterday made you happier, Button winning first place yesterday? Made ya happier. I know you felt a twinge of pride when you watched Twilight open up so hard in her magic-show performance that she made everyone else give up, and I know that you were even happier when she asked to read with you until you both passed out. It was a pleasure when my family all piled on you with snuggles. So as a final whammy, in ‘making my wife smile plan’, I brought you breakfast in bed. Served with your favorite tea; goldenrod tea!” I offered her the cup. “Nice and steamy, as you like it, dear.”

Tia examined the tea, before taking a sip. “Two sugars…” She looked up at me. “Are you serving me ice cream cake with eggs and toast?” She asked as I moved the cart over with my magic. It rattled and creaked on the way over and came to a stop when it gently bumped against the bed. Unlike Celly’s bed, which was more like a large, flat cushion on the floor, Twilight’s bed was more akinned to that of a human bed, just made to accommodate a pony better than a human… as in it was shorter.

“Why not?” I asked. “I see your butt wiggling in anticipation; you wanna wolf down your breakfast and try out the cake.”

“...Okay, maybe this does put a smile on my face,” Celly giggled and planted a kiss on my cheek. “Thank you, Source. You didn’t have to, but thank you.”

“Bitch, I had to. I’m your husband, what did I promise when I married ya on our wedding day?” I asked, letting my accent grow thicker. “Was it… love, cherish, and comfort you until the day we die? As far as we both know, we’ll be around for a while; I’ve got time to do all of that, and I’m choosing to do all of that right now. Your little butt wiggle while you try and not inhale your breakfast’s dessert right now is adorable; it’s somethin’ I’m gonna cherish forever. And I’m gonna love ya right feckin’ now; I’m gonna groom the ever living fuck out of you while you eat.”

Celly ‘oh’d when I started preening her wings.

Twilight had long since grabbed Spike and moved to the guest room next to hers; Apple Jack. Apple Jack should be awake by now, and was also on the plan; her room was just somewhere Spike and Twi could go while I pleasure my wife with food and cuddles and stuff. Despite our almost flirty interactions, Twilight still sees Celly as a second mother; seeing us go ‘at it’ even though we wouldn’t was still kinda weird for her.

“Say,” I hummed. “What happened to Gramps?” I asked.

“Do you mean Scripted Tale?” Celly asked. “He’s at the convention this year; he’s just taking a backseat to a student teacher that will be taking over his position in a few years. Why do you ask?”

“I’ve not spoken with him since the last convention; I kinda feel bad for not inviting him to our wedding.”

“He didn’t even know… that we got married. Source, he is going to tease you so much.”

“feck.”

When we made it down to the dining hall, I noted just how similar it was to the dining hall back home, except it was sparkly and made of crystals.It wasn’t as big, or grand, or fancy as the dining hall typically used for dignitaries back in Canterlot, but this was essentially where Cadance and Shining Armor ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday. I looked around and hummed. Cadance was sitting where Celly usually sat, at the head of the table, with Lulu and my wife sitting next to her on opposite sides. Shining Armor sat on the end opposite from his wife, with Pharynx and Thorax right next to him on both sides.

Everyone here, Twilight, her friends, me, my family, were in between them.

I sat between Katie and Celly, Ma was sitting next to Luna. Tale would be sitting next to Lulu, but that’s where Ma was, and Tale’s a little scared of Ma. It’s because Luna is literally the strongest mare that Tale knew of, and Ma manhandled her during that party once, while Tale watched from the other side of the room. Dan was sitting next to Ma, Dave and Button were sharing a seat across from Katie, and Tale was across from Dan. Twilight was on my side of the table, then it went Dashie, Pinkie and then Thorax. On Ma’s side it went, after Tale, Fluttershy Rarity, Apple Jack, and then Pharynx.

Our plates and cutlery were also sparkly and made of gems.

“So,” Ma said, a mouth full of food. “What’re the rules for the tournament? I know me and Twilight Sparkle are on a team and all, but what…”

“So while it’s not encouraged, you can just walk up to your opponent, slap their shit, and win based on that. Though it’s a magic competition, so your main attacks should be magic-based, or magically enhanced physical strikes.”

A portal opened up where the doorway was, and everyone screamed… Only for Fruit Punch to walk out of it with a cup of coffee and Chrysalis… who looked way different from this world’s Chrysalis. She looked… not old, but she had reading glasses on, and her mane was longer and looked very well-taken care of. Her tail was roughly the same, and she had less holes in her legs; her wings looked shinier. He looked around and blinked. “I am on time, right? I was hoping to watch this unicorn thingy, as it doesn’t occur in other timelines besides the ones Source is in, assuming Source didn’t go evil in those timelines, which is almost all of them.”

Rarity was the first to stand. “WHAT THE BUCK!?” She asked. “MY EX-”

“Rarity, watch your volume,” Fruit warned. “It’s bad for your throat to be yellin’ like that at this our,” Fruit said as he rubbed the inside of his ears.

Rarity took a deep breath. “Fruit, it is a pleasure to see you, even if we ended up not being compatible, but why did you just walk out of a portal with Queen Chrysalis?” Two changelings stood at his flanks, besides Chrysalis. Both had nametags… Skitter and Scatter. “And who are those two?”

“Oh,” Fruit chuckled. “So uh, I was from another Equestria, but also from Earth like Source is, just a different part of Earth called New York Fucking City,” he explained. “I cut our relationship off, and I’m sorry for leading you on, because of this,” he nuzzled his Chrysalis. “Is my wife. These two,” he pointed to his changeling friends. “Are my guards and best friends. Third and fourth in command after Pharynx, though in other timelines they don’t exist, or don’t really speak.” Both changelings saluted our Pharynx, before sitting like cats.

Chrysalis, Fruit’s Chrysalis spoke. “It’s a pleasure to greet you all. I take it this timeline is a little far behind other timelines… According to Fruit.” She nodded to me. “Greetings; I’ve had to deal with an evil version of you and it was not fun. You seem like a pleasant gentlecolt in this timeline, however.” The room was big enough for this Chrysalis to summon a table big enough for herself, her husband, and their guards.

“Wait, what?” Ma asked. “There’s multiple Sources?”

“Oh yeah,” Fruit chuckled. “This timeline’s an anomaly,” his expression dropped. “Usually the fork begins during the Summer Sun Celebration, Mrs. Gaime. Sometimes it happens later on. Either Celestia withheld information here or there, or lied about the facts behind the magical accident that Source was in when he came to Equestria. It doesn’t matter; Source goes evil in most timelines and he either gets killed, or goes on a rampage that not even Celestia herself could stop. Like he made the Legion of Doom seem like a bunch of pussies.”

“The… fuck?” Ma asked.

“Don’t ask,” Fruit shrugged. “Timelines are fucking weird. It took both me and Chrysalis to take down an Evil Source, and he wasn’t an alicorn in any of the timelines he became evil in.”

“Ah shit,” I chuckled. “I can’t imagine that it was fun.”

“Yeah, no shit,” Chrysalis growled. “Damn near killed us too, but no matter the timeline, you’re a bit scrawny, so Fruit just kicked your shit in… Well, not your shit in. I don’t think you’ve a mean bone in your body.”

“Uh… not sure about that; I’m not a saint-”

“By this point in the timeline, you would’ve burnt Canterlot to the ground. In this specific timeline, you’re a good pony.” Chrysalis nodded to Celestia. “Probably because she has been transparent with you since day one, and kept you read in on what's been going on since the Summer Sun Celebration.”

Everyone slowly turned to me. “So…” I chuckled. “We’re essentially in the Pacifist Run of Undertale in this one?” I asked.

“Basically,” Fruit nodded.

Luna hummed. “We’ve gone way off topic. We were just discussing what the magic competition for today would be. Source’s mother and Twilight are competing this year on the same team and I’ve a feeling that they’re gonna win.” She side eyed me. “And by the way, since our match never had a winner, some of the professors wanted us to have another exhibition match. Just you and me; they claimed that I was worn out after fighting Cadance and you took advantage of that.”

…

“The. Fuck.”

“I know, you hate exhibition matches,” Luna nodded.

“I know… Didn’t they watch me and Celly while we were fighting? We weren’t actually hurting each other, not in any meaningful capacity, and we both hated all of that. We know we have to spar, and we hate just doing that.” I cuddled into Celly’s side. “You know how much less fun it was to hit my wife’s belly with a Stun mixed with a Blast, than it is to sneak under there and do this-” I slipped my hoof under Celly’s foreleg and she ‘oh’d. And I rubbed her belly with my hoof.

“Oh…” Celly giggled. “That does feel nice… But yes, I hated every moment during that exhibition match; I know how to fight Lulu and I know I can beat Cadance in a raw fight. Source was the biggest threat present and he’s my husband. I slammed a fake into the ground and I hated doing that. It was only a little worse that Source hopped on my back like we were playing around…” She planted a kiss on me. “But… there is an overwhelming amount of ponies requesting that you and Luna have a rematch.”

“...I hate fighting, Celly.” I pouted. “I don’t wanna hurt Lulu.”

“...Is that a challenge?” Luna asked.

“Lulu, you know what I mean. You know, it’s way more fun to use you as a pillow than to fight you. You’re family, and I hate pointing this,” I pointed at my horn. “At my family when I’ve got a spell charged up.”

“You could tell everypony to shut the fuck up,” Fruit suggested. “I told Twilight to do that once and everyone was so shocked at her being vulgar that they had to listen to her and… shut the fuck up.” We all ignore that comment. Except Twilight; she went over to Fruit to ask him about that. He gave her a vague, non-answer that only pissed her off.

“...We’re still having that exhibition match,” Luna sighed. “Source, I apologize, but some of the organizers said they’d veto the competition today unless it opened up with us sparring.”

“Can we have a healthy dose of cuddles before and after the fight?” I asked. “I really hate the idea of fighting you again, Luna. I’ve been there, done that, and…”

Me and Ma swapped seats. Me and Lulu were cuddling now.

“Be careful,” Tale whispered. “She had cheese sticks last night and is a little gassy.”

“Dear,” Lulu said, looking down at her consort. “You’re sleeping on the couch tonight.”

Tale’s ears shot up. “Shit.” He started snickering. Luna started trying to punch his shoulder without punching me. It wasn’t fun.

Fucking hell. This is fucking bullshit. Me and Luna were having a dany ol’ time, cuddlin’ and snugglin’ and happily having the weirdass relationship of ‘older sibling depending on the circumstance’ and then when we walked out into the convention today, we were basically pressed into each other’s side, because Luna force me to walk pressed up into her side, having pressed me into her side with a wing. It was a great time, I’ll be honest.

Get your dirty mind out of the gutter, you pervert, me and Luna have said we aren’t interested in each other and are basically surrogate siblings. Stop thinking we’re going to have sex.

And no, you will not see inside the bedroom when me and Celly have sex, you fucking pervert.

Now, we were standing in an open field, with Shining Armor’s shield over us, because ‘hur dur, you two didn’t fight hur hur’. We were standing on opposite ends, Luna had removed her regalia so that it wouldn’t get damaged, while I kept on my Mage Suit, and sat on my haunches as the time started counting down. Luna was standing tall and regally as the bell rang. I remained in my spot, knowing I had no plan, and I had no idea how I was going to actually fight Luna. I kept a Light Shield active and decided to shoot a fireball to probe at Luna.

Of course she grounded that into nothing before she shot a lightning bolt my way.

I sidestepped that; no point in wasting the magic on a single spell I could just dodge.

After a moment of thinking, I ran in, with a DragonFire, and tried to blitz Moonbutt. Lulu looked shocked at my sudden advancement and I came to a halt as I saw a dead look in her eyes… Just in time for Light Shield to keep me from getting knocked on my ass by a telekinetic blast. I stared ahead, at Luna. She’s alive, Source, she’s fine Source. You physically cannot hurt her, Source. Kodi, GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF! I blocked another spell and made no effort to counter. I simply blocked a lightning bolt with a regular Shield Spell and stood there.

Why is this something I had to do today?

“Source?” Luna asked, stopping right in front of me. “Are… you alright?” She asked. She tapped me on the nose. “You looked like you saw a ghost…”

I shook my head. “Fuck…” I chuckled. “Just when I thought I was beginning to think I was okay again,” I giggled and sat on my ass. “Shit. You had the same look that… that other Luna had when she died for a second there.” I shivered. “It’s different, y’know? I didn’t look anyone else in the eyes but her, and…” I shivered and grabbed my head with my hooves. “Can I forfeit? I already don’t enjoy fighting if I don’t have to.” I looked Lulu in the eyes. “I don’t care if anyone boos or gets mad about this outcome. I don’t give a shit; please do not make me fight you, or Celly, or Cadance ever again. I can’t stand the thought of attacking you guys.”

Lulu took a deep breath and sighed. “Source…” She looked a little teary eyed. “I… I am sorry for asking you to do this. I should’ve noticed how much you hate fighting me, or Tia, or Cadance after you stuck to my sister like velcro after you ‘struck your wife’.” Luna bowed. “I forfeit if you will as well.”

“I gave up the second I stopped attacking, Luna.” I took a long, deep breath.

“Hey,” Lulu wrapped a wing around me. “On the bright side, you blocked one of my spells without realizing it! Your Shield has certainly improved in stability.” That brought a small smile to my face. “I would like to apologize, everypony, but my brother in law really hates fighting, and can barely keep his… head in the game. We shall step aside and let all the young mages take part in their tournament this year.” Luna gave me a small smile. “Come now, brother! I’m certain that laying against my sister’s belly will lighten your mood.”

The crowd didn’t dare admonish us for ending our sparring match early.

When we got to our seat, the first fight had begun. Ma and Twilight were opening up in the tag team tournament today.

The two of them were going up against two students from Manehattan Bay Area’s School For Gifted Unicorns.

The two students were apparently twins, and thus had perfect team work. A stallion and mare duo. Two siblings. They were green and yellow, though the mare had a green coat and yellow mane, the stallion had a yellow coat and green mane. They seemed to be silently communicating. Ma just sat there, cracking her shoulders while Twilight went over a plan with her.

Once the buzzer had gone off, the twins both brought up a shield over themselves… a single shield. They had knowing grins; they thought they had a chance.

Maeve

“And that’s my plan,” Twilight said matter of factly. “You and I are both very powerful, Maeve, so as long as we both…”

“That’s cool, Sparkle, but I have an idea. Source said shields don’t stop Levitate.”

“Oh no…” Twilight shook her head. “He taught you something exploitable!”

“And…” My horn lit up, grabbing both of our opponents by the head. Clud. Their heads sounded like a pair of coconuts hitting each other when I smacked their heads together and knocked them out. “I can just do that, and end our fight immediately.” I had pointed out. “I was hopin’ for more of a fight, but why did they decide to make a shield large enough to fit both of them? That sounds like a solid way to get your ass whooped if you asked me.”

“...Because most would assume you wouldn’t use their partner as a weapon?” We both looked up at the stands, where Kodi was. My son was laughing his arse off, pounding the seat he was laying on while Celly and Luna had small grins on their faces; they found that funny as did everyone else in the crowd. “Maeve, next time, please follow the plan.” Twilight sighed.

“I will. I just thought your plan, this time around, took way more energy than we needed to use in that scenario.”

“...Fair enough. Just when we get to my brother, let me handle him; I doubt you’ll be able to get through his shield.”

“alright.”

Back with my boy.

So every time Ma went on stage, a lot of stallions started cheering for some reason. It could be because Twilight’s there too, and Twilight’s apparently pretty attractive, but then some ponies actually started calling out Ma's name. And every time she went and struck out and anypony, because she has zero subtly in with her attacks, she usually blasted apart any shields, and often most ponies were left with having to dodge… given that most of the ponies were confident with their shields, they weren’t expecting to dodge.

Ma was a force to be reckoned with, because unlike Twilight who’s holding herself back, Ma is aiming to win.

Shining Armor and Pharynx, with the changeling under disguise, actually were having a similar effect, with Shiny clearly being the powerhouse of the two, Pharynx was fucking fast at slinging spells and was fast. He was kinda hard to hit. It was kinda fun, seeing a changeling, a fucking changeling wipe the grins off some of these cocky assholes’ faces. Changelings can fly, and they can do magic, and they usually weren’t very good at either.

Pharynx was limited by not being able to use his wings and he was still slinging spells. His shields were something to be desired, but he was a lot like I was when it came to using shields; use it to parry attacks rather than take them head on. For stronger attacks, Pharynx fucking teleports behind Shiny, who’s shields are definitely a force to be reckoned with; nobody can get past it save for Twilight.

Pharynx was using Python, by the way. I could tell that he probably had some help, from Shiny, to finely tune it to changeling magic, but he was using my spell system.

That filled me up with a little pride.

“You know,” Celly smiled as she watched Ma beat the shit out of a poor mare that actually scored a hit on her. “Your mother is fucking terrifying.”

“EAT A DICK!” Ma shouted at the, now, unconscious mare from Baltimare.

“I don’t think I’ve seen anypony take a spell, dead on, without a shield, and get right back up with no sign of slowing down.”

“It’s how Ma is; she's half Australian.” I hummed. “For reference, Australia would make the Everfree Forest look like the Royal Gardens.”

“...How?”

“There’s just a fish that swims on the shores of Australia, not fully sure where, that looks like a rock, yeah?” I chuckled as Celly nodded, she was excited to learn something new from Earth. “It’s the most poisonous thing on the planet.”

“...What the fuck-”

“The spiders are the size of your face.”

“What the actual fuck is wrong with Earth?”

“Pfft, it’s called mother nature’s a cunt and she wants to kill everything.” I chuckled. “So anyways, Ma grew up in that hell hole and got bit by a snake. She broke its neck before being taken to the hospital.”

Ma grabbed the stallion that was hounding Twilight, in her magic, and then was surprised when the stallion brought a shield up. The shield was then engulfed in flames and the round was over. “Ma’s got a good grasp on fire magic.”

Luna shivered. “I fear for my nephew’s well-being. Shining Armor is going to be feeling it in the morning.”

“Nah, Ma won’t hurt Shiny too bad; she likes him.” I chuckled.

The finals came, it was Ma and Twilight against Pharynx and Shiny. The two teams stood face to face and as soon as the match began, both sides started trading spells. Ma tanked a blast from motherfucking Shining Armor, got back up after bouncing off the shield, and cracked her neck. “Okay Shiny, yer feckin’ strong,” my mother started strolling forward. “Hit like a truck, and stuff. Pretty tough.”

“Why is my mum such a freak of nature in Equestria? That shit woulda left me blasted to shit and a puddle of blood."

“Uh… Mrs. Code, I don’t like that look.” Shiny was smart enough to bring a shield up, and Pharynx decided to just not even try hiding behind his Dad. Instead, he got between Ma and Shiny… Only for Ma to use Dragonfire and tunnel underground… She came up under Shiny’s shield. “Top of the mornin’ to ya laddies!” Ma announced her presence and hit my guy in the face with a telekinetic blast; he had no time to react because he was shitting himself. Pharynx sat there, bug eyed, staring at Ma in pure, unfiltered fear.

“...I fear for the next pony to attack our family, if Maeve ever finds out,” Celly chuckled. “Because I’ll have to save them.”

“Yeah…” I chuckled as Pharynx just flopped over, playing dead. Luckily, Ma was much nicer to him; she just picked him up, set the poor changeling on her back, and grabbing Shining Armor. “Okay, we won, Twilight. Let’s get yer brother in the infirmary so I can leave a ‘get well soon’ card… and an apology for making him shit himself.”

Twilight was left, sputtering and trying to find words, and air. The fight literally consisted of seven spells in total. The first four spells that were traded, Shiny’s shield, and then Ma’s DragonFire and final attack. I think, like everyone else in the crowd, she was trying to figure out how Ma tanked Shining Fucking Armor’s attack and was walking just fine.

“Hey Celly, who are the big threats left that you’re gonna have Twilight beat up?” I asked.

“I feel as though their fates will be sealed if they attack your mother.”

Author's Note

So, it's on the shorter side, but honestly, there wasn't much to say. it's pretty hard to write 'so and so got ass blasted by Source's Ma' six different times. Fruit also let us know how rare it is, for a timeline like Source's, to exist without Source becoming evil. Source is also still not okay, but that's okay. Luna noticed and removed him from the situation.