Canterlot Castle, 2 hours later

All the Canterlot Royal Guard is, for lack of a better term, flabbergasted, seeing his omnipresent ruler, God for some of the present ponies, being carried like a doll, alongside two strange humanoid beings, by her prized student into the castle. Fortunately for her highness Princess Celestia Ordea, the excavation site entrance was inside the castle, so this incident's witnesses are probably all the palace staff and Royal Guard on duty by now.

Anyways, she is unable to hide the blush on her cheeks the entire way into the throne room.

For Haken and Aschen, on the otherhoof, the ride went smoothly, but still they didn't say a word for fear it could possibly make their dire situation worse, and in fact enjoying the face of discomfort the princess was giving them.

"Twilight ?" the white mare asks politely.

"Yes, your highness ?"

"Might you be kind enough to let me and our... guests go ?" Celestia stated, giving a wary look to a passing lunar guard, which promptly turned around and began galloping to the other end of the corridor where the four of them were. Also eliciting a little snort from Haken, as well as a bemused look from Aschen.

"OH MY GOSH YOUR HIGHNESS IM SOSORRYIOVERSTEPMYBOUNDARIESBUTYOU..." stammers the little purple unicorn, quicky speeding up,in mild panic.

"Twilight, please..."

"ANDWHENYOUAREMADYOUUSUALLYDONTLISTENTOANYREASONSSOITHINK..."

"Twilight!!"

"PLEASEDONTPUNISHMEORBANISHMEORPUNISHMEINTHESITEYOU..."

TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!! Celestia shouts, granting a loud squeak and the field suddenly vanishing sending the human, android, and herself to the floor. Instinctively Celestia spread her wings to gain some balance, and the girl somehow stabilizes herself, but for Haken, the floor and his face became intimate with a loud thud and a curse.

"Damn it!!!"

"Hehe" Twilight giggles "sorry about that."

"Its OK" the tall man mutters, with a slightly nasal tone, "not your fault that you stop me for beating Snow White here."

"Do you realize that I was winning" Celestia chimes in, with a little mocking tone "besides your bravado, do you realize that I'm an immortal alicorn and you cannot beat me ?."

"Sooo... besides the fact that you are a tall winged unicorn..." begins the man.

"Alicorn" quickly corrects Twilight.

"Whatever... besides the fact you are an Alicorn, you're saying that you are immortal?" asks Haken.

"Yes" Simply answers Celestia, "and i think you were a little rude with that magic trick of yours, honestly, making cards explode. you'll need to do something more harsh if you want to hurt me."

"Hey Snow White, you hit us first, besides, that wasn't a magic trick, those cards are covered in a explosive cellulose that will go off after a short period of time when they're tossed."

"Interesting" mutters Celestia.

In that moment, a little battalion of lunar guards appears from the far side of the hall. Commanded by Princess Luna, and one white unicorn stallion in purple and gold armor, clutching a broadsword as tall as he is. All of them were weilding various spears, and crossbows, and the Lunar Diarch herself is carrying a couple of moon shaped battle blades, firmly held in a dark blue aura.

"THOU SHALT NOT PASS!!!" the black alicorn yells, causing some of her guards to flinch.

"Luna... they are no threat, and you are using old equish again" Celestia calmly states, "anyhow, they easily can hurt or worse, KILL our little ponies, and their weapons are far more advanced than ours, so I do not think it is wise to disturb them."

"Well Snow White, finally you say something that can benefit us. However, we did not come to conquer, or fight with you. We come here with a mission of search and possible rescue, one individual from our world disappeared in the Mai Terra, and us..." began Haken, slightly annoyed by the constant interruptions.

"What, pray tell, is a Mai Terra" the dark alicorn asks.

"Ok, now, I think we started off on the wrong hoof" Celestia stated, turning around and observing the weapons that Haken has, also the heavy knuckles that Aschen is wearing on her hands. "I think we can discuss all the issues that we have, starting with how you appeared in the excavation site, and why are you heavily armed in a peaceful land."

"So, no more lightbeams ?" Haken asked, a hint of hope in his voice.

"No, no more lightbeams, if you agree to leave your weapons. I think we both jumped to conclusions, and began attacking each other without reason."

"As nice as she sounds, captain" states Aschen, " I strongly recommend to you, not to follow her advice, we don't wanna start an inter-dimensional conflict for omitting basic etiquette. However I also think being fully unarmed is an invitation for trouble. I'm basing my judgment on that "Snow White" here was the first to attack us while we are finishing our transportation from the Cross Gate."

"I think I have a solution for that" Twilight suddenly pipes up "how about you enter with all your gear, and the princesses picks the best of their guard to attend this meeting."

"I like that idea, horse lady" Haken states, winning an unnerving glare from the purple armored stallion "but how do we know that all of you aren't deceiving us?"

"Because" the white stallion states, "she is one of the bearers of the elements of harmony, and my little sister. So if you don't like it, we still can kick your flank back to that portal."

"Shining Armor, that is not the way to address some possible allies on their first visit to this universe" Twilight almost screams, mortified at her brother.

"Yeah kid, besides, it'd be easy to kick YOUR ass before you even reached mine." Haken boasted around, gaining some amused stares from both princesses, a warning (and almost imperceptible) glare from Aschen, and a snort and a little laugh from somewhere above him.

"Dude, I love your attitude, and that's something I don't say to everypony" says a tomboyish voice. Suddenly, a cyan pegasus with a rainbow colored mane lands in front of both groups.

"Rainbow Dash" Twilight quickly asks "Why in the name of Celestia are you here?"

"Heya egghead, Princess Luna sent an emergency scroll saying something about some monsters who have her sister and our favorite librarian as hostages and we all came here in 20 seconds flat, but seeing this one chewing out to your brother like that, I'll say he's cool" the stuntmare and aspiring wonderbolt explains.

"So that means all the girls are here?" quickly asks Twilight, beginning to cower behind a statue.

"Yeah... oh wait, they're new so..." began the multicolored mare.

"Ok whats the problem being new in this universe?" Haken quickly asked, beginning to worry, seeing all the present ponies ducking for covering

“SURPRISE!!!”

"..."

"..."

"Next time, i don't ask."

Author's Note

As always any feedback is appreciated, i am going to update an special chapter describing all the characters in this story, besides the obvious ones, so you can get a better idea of the other characters