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// Realization and regret 
// Story: We will catch you if we can 
// by proto-alpha 
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Fernando looked around, searching for the owner of the voice. Thanks to the light from his stones, he spotted her under a random tree, and she slowly started to walk to him. She was giving him a small smile, and he wasn't sure how to feel about it.
"That smiles seems friendly... but somehow... forced" he thought.
"How have you been? Are you okay, you're not hurt, are you?" as she was saying this with what seemed concern. When she got even closer, Fernando noticed some lines under her cartoonish eyes that made her look a little strange.
"Hey, aren't those the lines that appear when a character is tired or... insane?" he asked himself. His suspicions grew stronger when he noted that she wasn't blinking and "was that a twitch on her eye?"
"Now that you're here, why don't you meet your whole new family?" she said this while standing on her hind legs and extending the front as if she was showing something. When she said that, a lot of tiny creatures started to walk out of the alley, the same that had assaulted Fernando some minutes ago. They also came from some nearby bushes and a lot of birds came too. They all stood in a circle around him, and they made their own sounds as a greet to the human. Some of them were very happy at the thought of having a new friend, but others had a look of pity for him, that has brought to life something they thought death. "Now come with me to my home. You don't have to go with the princesses or Discord. You'll be mine, forever" she emphasized the word forever and mouthed it slowly, and a lightning was seen behind her.
"That's it, I'm leaving" he thought before starting to run and jumping above the animals around him. He was running in direction of the Everfree forest, even if he knew the risks. He wasn't even close when a bear appeared and snatched him from the ground, leaving him hanging from one led. Fluttershy walked until she was next to the bear while moving her head in a disapproving manner.
"Now that's not how you treat family. You're supposed to embrace it and love it" Fluttershy was saying this with an upset tone, but what disturbed Fernando was that she had still the same expression on her face. "Now I have to give you a punishment" she told him. 
Fernando gulped. He didn't like how that sounded, and he was squirming as mad to get himself free, but t no avail.
"Harry," she told to the bear "hold him down". He did so and soon Fernando was in the ground, without any kind of possible movement. Fluttershy stood next to him, and Fernando could only wonder what kind of torture he would receive. Fluttershy extended one of her front hoofs and put it on top of Fernando, and started to run it from head to toe several times. This was rewarded with an extremely confused looking human and some of the animals ran away from the place. They knew what she was about to do, and some had experimented it, namely Angel, who closed his eyes and covered his ears but didn't leave.
After a little over ten times of repeating the motion, Fluttershy stopped in an specific spot. Fernando didn't know what she was about to do, but soon he was in extreme pain.
"Pressure points! Why those darned things!" he thought in despair as he experimented the worst pain of his life, and worst of all, Fluttershy was barely making pressure.
"You don't like it, do you?" she asked, but now with a sadistic smile "Now what about this?" now instead of just putting her hoof there, he was taping that spot.
The pain intensified and he was now crying in pain. If he could, he would beg her to stop, but he couldn't.

From some distance, Discord could not stand it anymore and flew away.
"If he gets out of this one, I'll at least give him the safe way through the forest" he said to himself, feeling bad for Fernando for the second time in less than twenty four hours.

Back at the ground, Fluttershy was now ramming her hoof on him, making him make motions of screaming, but unable to produce any audible sounds
"So now you learned your lesson. Nopony leaves Fluttershy, not when she is even better than New Fluttershy" the pegasus said, starting to talk in third person by accident. From when she started, she saw how Fernando's face showed pain, and she wanted to stop, but she was unable to stop herself, and by the end, she was completely distracted, and when she was about to give the hardest of the hits, let's just say that she missed a little from where she was hitting. It didn't help that the pressure point was on his leg, and when she missed, it went to that part of a man.
Now Fernando's face was fixed in what could be comparable to the face of a banshee screaming, and his voice would have gone some octaves up, but the effect with his voice like it was occasioned some other effects. All of the bats in a one hundred meter radius fell to the floor, knocked out, and all of the windows and mirrors of Ponyville were now on the floor as tiny shattered parts, and if you concentrated just enough, you could hear the howl of a dog coming from Sweet Apple Acres. 
From the hit, Fernando got an adrenaline rush, enough to shake off the bear and to accidentally give a hit Fluttershy on the head. The hit got Fluttershy very dizzy, and thankfully for every world and dimension, she was back to normal, having received a little of amnesia.
"Wh-what happened?" she asked, not remembering anything from the past day. "I remember using the 'stare' with that creature, and then nothing" she looked around her and gasped soundly when she saw Fernando on a fetal position, in extreme pain. "Oh my gosh, what happened to you? Can I help you?" she approached him, but he noticed her and tried to move away.
The feeling of rejection made Fluttershy remember how she had acted for the past hours, and she immediately tried to say that she's sorry
"I'm sorry, please forgive me, I don't know what came over me, but please, please, please..." she started to say please each time more quietly and starting to cry a little over what she had done. Fernando, for his part, still was in pain, but he could at least see how she had indeed changed. She didn't had anymore that look on her face, nor she had the lines under her eyes, and now her emotions looked real.
"At least she's not sadistic anymore, I just hope that showing her 'acceptance' can calm her from now on" he thought in pain before making his best on standing up. He walked slowly up to her, and she noticed him. She feared that he would make some kind of revenge, but she really believed that she deserved any kind of pain now. She closed her eyes and braced herself when he extended one hand, but instead of a hit or anything, he gave her two pats on the head before taking his two glowing stones that he dropped when the bear lifted him, and walking in a funny way, still in pain, to the Everfree forest.
For her part, Fluttershy stood there and said quietly
"So, you forgive me?"

Fernando pocketed the stones, so Fluttershy couldn't see were he was, and when he decided that he was out of any possible sight, he dropped to the floor and sighed in relief of this day coming to an end. It was then when Discord appeared, but applauding.
"Why so cheery?" Fernando thought, not wanting to deal with other living being that had a screw lost. 
"After seeing something that not even I, Discord, can deal with, I must give you an award" Discord's answer caught Fernando's attention for two reasons.
"You were watching and didn't do anything, you son of a..." he took in a deep breath to calm himself and continued "What do you mean by award?". At the question, Discord took a piece of parchment from under his sleeve and showed it to Fernando
"This is a map of the safest path through the Everfree forest, and it's your reward" Fernando took the map, ignoring that Discord took it from under his skin, and saw that it was in blank, but at the same time there were painted on the floor a series of white glowing marks.
"How can I trust you?" he asked him, not wanting to go through another problem when he just left one
"Look, I don't know exactly what happened, but the sound of an entire town having it's windows and mirrors broken sure calls the attention, not mentioning that one of my wings," Discord pointed to his bat wing "fell numb at the same time. I connected two and two and the only other being chaotic enough to do something like that after being tortured was you"
"Well, unless I want to go back to the military camp, it's my only option with that thought, he set on his path, being followed by Discord.
"By the way, how did you manage to do that... and why are you walking funny?" the draconequus asked. Fernando cringed and one of his eyes twitched and responded
"I... prefer not to talk about it"

Fluttershy was standing still on the same place while watching Fernando disappear in the darkness. Not to long after, Rainbow Dash arrived at the place with a lantern and landed next to Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy, what happened? I saw a bunch of your animals running away scared and came here immediately" Fluttershy turned to her, and Rainbow Dash noticed that she didn't have a psycho look anymore, she also noticed that she had been crying.
"We-well, did you notice how I had been acting a little strange for the past few days?" Fluttershy asked, and Rainbow nodded "I-I think those animals ran away because they saw what I was doing". Rainbow Dash could only wondered what could she do that scared those animals, but then remembered what happened at the gala
"Yeah, that must be it" she thought. "Anyway," she started to say "do you at least know now where the human is?"
"Ye-yes, he went to the Everfree forest" at this, Rainbow Dash had a victorious grin on her face
"Really? That practically solves all of our problems! The thing will surely find a good home there, so now let's ge back for the party that Pinkie will probably do!" she didn't wait for a reply from Fluttershy, and took dragged her along as she flew back to the town to report the success.

"We still can't call it a success" said Twilight when Rainbow found her and told her what had just happened. Rainbow Dash stared at her in a way that said that she wanted her to elaborate. "Look, we need to communicate this to the princess, and after that we need to find Discord and reseal him".	Rainbow sighed and thought of how she would lose too many nap times. "But the other ponies of Ponyville should know so they can return to their normal lives" the unicorn added.

When all of the ponies were at outside the town hall, Twilight started to tell them the situation.
"The creature wasn't captured, but it is now in the Everfree forest, so it shouldn't be a problem anymore!". Cheers rose from the crowd when she said that, but when they died down, one pony asked
"What was supposed to be the creature?" some other ponies wanted to know too, since not too many of them actually saw Fernando.
"It was a human that Discord brought from somewhere" responded Twilight, and when she mentioned the name of the species, every sound ceased to exist in Ponyville.
"Wasn't that the animal that you were hunting some days ago?" another pony asked. The mane six looked very confused. All they remembered from the past days was... they got even more surprised when they discovered they didn't know what had happened for the past days. Lyra, who stood to one side of the group of friends also wondered why she couldn't remember anything.
"It was, we saw it!" said Rose from the middle of the crowd. This made all of the ponies start to make questions at the same time, and the seven of them looked between themselves to see if anypony had an answer to this new mystery.