Several weeks later armor finally sent out the letters to all of those that are being invited to the wedding… armor decided to give me the final test… survive in the Everfree forest for two days… without my armor and only my sword and shield. I had survived and armor had met me at the edge of the forest where I was supposed to meet him.

As we teleported back into the room we scared mom and immediately… I could tell it wasn't her.

"Adam and I are home cadence." Armor said as she looked unsure of me but it quickly went away before armor could notice.

"glad to see you both back home safe and sound… now armor you and I got a few things to talk about the wedding… alone." He only nodded as they walked into the bedroom as I sat down to read once more after reequipping my armor to see if it still fit.

Armor was worried that my armor might be a little big for me after the test but it still fit perfectly. As I continued to make sure everything moved the right way armor eventually walked out of the bedroom and out of the room, probably back towards the barracks to check on the guards and to renew the shield.

He had to put a shield over Canterlot to protect it against anypony that wanted to get through. Turns out that there had been threats so he was asked to do extra protection but at a cost of not being able to deliver his sisters invitation by hoof. Eventually mom walked out of the room and I thought I noticed her eyes flash green quickly.

"Adam…" she said.

"Yeah mom?"

"You need to leave." She said with a serious tone.

"What do you mean mom? I just got back." I told her unsure of what was happening.

"You… are a liability to my plans… so I must dispose of you… permanently…" and with that her eyes turned green as her horn lit up with a green aura… she radiated lots of rage… I knew I felt something off when I got back… I didn't feel love coming off her when armor was here… it was lust. Before I could react I was surrounded by a green and black dome as it slowly went into the ground. As it went down my shield and sword fell into it due to me pounding it and creating a few small shakes on the table… and then I was gone.

"Adam?" I heard as I slowly opened my eyes to find fake cadence over me with a look of concern. As I quickly stood back up I jumped on her as we rolled on the ground until I ended up on top of her with a knife against her throat.

"Adam! What's gotten into you?!" she yelled with a few tears in her eyes.

"You're not my mom!" I yelled in her face as I prepared to slit her throat.

"At least give me the chance to show you that I'm who I say I am!" she said.

"Fine… one chance." I told her with rage in my voice as I got off her and she got up.

"Your mother was killed by your own father… and you were almost drowned if I hadn't shown up…" she said with a few tears in her eyes… I then realized something… I could feel her love for me flowing off of her… she was real.

"Mom… I'm so sorry." I told her but she only smiled as she hugged me and I hugged her back.

"It's alright Adam… I'm just glad you're safe…" she said with tears in her eyes. After a few minutes or so she let go.

"How long have you been down here?" I asked her.

"Ever since you left… I woke up down here. I know I fell asleep in my bed." She said.

"Well when I got back I had my suspicions that the other you wasn't the real you…" I said crossing my arms.

"Meaning?" she asked.

"She looked very confused when she saw me… but it changed so quick that armor didn't notice. Luckily I saw it in time. She had confronted me when armor left and then I ended up down here. In fact where are my sword and shield?" I asked sheathing my knife as I looked around and eventually spotted them on the ground.

As I walked over and picked them up and put the sword into its sheath at my waist level and put my shield back onto my back. "Where are we anyway?" I asked.

"We are in the crystal caverns." She told me.

"Isn't that the place that's far beneath Canterlot?" she nodded.

"Why us…" I muttered as she smiled. "Whelp… we might as well start trying to find a way out of here." She nodded as we started to walk.

As we walked and walked I couldn't help but think… "Hey mom…" she looked at me. "Can I tell you something?" she smiled.

"Of course you can Adam… what do you want to talk about?" she asked.

"well… when my hair gained the highlights and the specks appeared in my eyes… it was like I could feel the rage and love coming from everything near me… it was like I could see the love coming off of you mom…" she put on a look like she was thinking. "But before I came down here it was like I could sense the lust inside the fake you…" I then stopped as she as well.

"What's happening to me…?" I said with a few tears in my eyes as I stared at my gauntlet covered hands. I then saw a hoof put onto my hand and I turned to see mom smiling at me.

"Whatever it is Adam… well go through this together." I smiled as I wiped away the tears and we started to walk once more until I started to hear talking… I then started to hear small explosions coming from the wall to our right. As I pulled out my sword and shield soon the wall exploded as the dust cleared… to reveal a purple unicorn? And she had on a face of rage when she saw mom… shit…

As the unicorn pounced at my mom I wasn't quick enough to react as they rolled on the ground and mom ended up on the bottom. "Get off of her!" I yelled as I charged her only for her to turn her head and send a large blast of magic at me. "Shit!" and with that I was hit by the magic causing me to drop my sword and as I hit the wall I blacked out.