Hope Restored
Pinkie POV
It was almost time for Anon's party. You noticed how he was feeling a bit down lately, so you decided to throw him a party to cheer him up. And of course you wanted to make sure he wasn't late.
He didn't leave his house much, so that is where you went to look for him. However, when you arrived at his house, his door was wide open. That was strange, he usually kept it shut. Walking over, you stepped on something. Looking down, you saw that you stepped on your invitation.
Oh good, he read it. You bounced up to the open door and looked inside.
"Oh Nooooonnnyyyyyy~" Silence was your only answer. "Nonny?" You walked in his house and looked around. Some cabinet doors were left opened, displaying their emptiness. The place looked overall, emptier. The last room you checked was his room.
"Anon?" He wasn't there. Once again, there were some open, empty drawers. Where could he be? He rarely left his house. You didn't see him anywhere in Ponyville. Then it hit you: the empty drawers, the open room, the lack of a human.
He's gone!
You ran as fast as Pinkiely possible back to Sugarcube corner. Slamming the doors open, you pretty much made everypony jump out of their coats. Twilight was the first one to recover.
"Pinkie what's wrong?" Your eyes darted around the room, still trying to cope with the situation.
"He's gone!" Large gasps filled the room.
"What do you mean gone?" Twilight was trying to get a grasp on your bad news.
"Gone! Absent! Not there!"
"Where did he go?" Tears were starting to fill your eyes.
"I d-don't know" You feel Cheese put his leg around you. Pulling yourself into his grasp, you melt into his shoulder. You can't believe he would just leave without saying goodbye. All the ponies put on somber faces. This was the worst party ever.
"Well I'm not about to stand by and let this happen! I'm going to look for him." Rainbow flew out of the store, followed by Soarin.
What did you do to drive him away? He may have lost his job, but he still had friends that cared about him.
So why did he leave?
The search for Anon went from hours, to days, to weeks. Rainbow ran herself ragged trying to find him. Being the Element of Loyalty, she took it harder than most. She kept beating herself up saying that she should have done something quicker or should have been there more for him. You were happy Soarin was there to help her.
The rest of you took it hard as well. Twilight became a bit more shut in. Applejack busied herself on the farm. Fluttershy was now taking care of more and more animals. Rarity consumed herself with fashion. And you were busy trying to make everypony smile again.
You knew it was a losing battle, but you knew you had to do it. Cheese made sure to help you by bringing a smile to your face. It was always nice to know you had a special somepony. In fact, all your friends were happy that they found one.
Well, almost all of your friends. Maybe that was why he left. Maybe he didn't feel loved.
It had been years since you last saw him. Starlight was starting her third year of school. But Twilight wasn't the only one to have a child. Rainbow and Soarin had one filly and one colt: Glider and Blitz. Applejack and Trenderhoof had a filly: Autumn Apple. Rarity and Fancy had a filly named Flawless. You even had a little colt yourself named Bubblegum.
Fluttershy had a rough time when it came to children. She and Big Mac tried to have kids on multiple occasions. When that didn't work, they went to see a doctor. You could still see the look on their faces when they came out.
It was cruel irony. The one out of your group that was most ready to be a mother, was the one that couldn't be one. You made sure to give them some hope by bringing them an adoption pamphlet. The smile on their faces assured you that you did the right thing.
They sent a letter to the agency in Fillydelphia asking for permission to adopt. So, the agency sent a representative to see if they would be suitable parents.
She gave your friends the green light to adopt. But that wasn't the only news you heard. The representative was inside Sugarcube Corner, talking with some pony about metal work.
"Yeah, I needed some repairs done to the bed frames for the little guys and you wouldn't believe who came over."
"Who?"
"It was- Oh thank you dear." You sat down a tray and refilled their drinks. Taking their empty plates, you walk back to the kitchen.
"It was some ape like creature named Anonymous." You dropped your tray, letting the plates smash on the ground. All the ponies jumped at the noise, and you ran back to the table.
"Who!?" The pony cowered a little.
"A-Anonymous."
"Where!?" You felt terrible about making a pony feel bad, but this was somthing you had to know.
"I-I'm sorry, but I need to know." When the pony recovered, she told you everything she knew. Apparently he ran away to Fillydelphia and works in a blacksmith's shop. Once she finished her tale, you thanked the pony and ran off to spread the news.
You found him.
When the other ponies heard the news, they were almost jumping with joy. Rainbow suggested to jump on the train and go kick his flank. All of you at least agreed to the train part.
Once you bought the tickets, your husbands opted to watch the kids while you were gone. This was an affair for just you six.
The train ride wasn't that long. Fillydelphia is only a few hours away. Once you got off the train, all of you looked around for a blacksmith shop. There was at least a whole section of the city dedicated to all the different kind of smiths. It was a bit intimidating seeing how large the section was, but you have come too far to quit now.
You asked many smiths if they have seen a human. At first, they had no clue what a human was. Once you explained what a human looked like, they directed you further and further down the streets.
All of you ended up towards the edge of the city, looking at a shop. Well, it looked more like a shack than a shop. Twilight was the one who walked up and pushed the door open. When you looked inside you saw your old friend.
Or, what was left of him.
Standing over an anvil, hammer held high, was a one legged human. His face was covered in hair and his clothes were torn and worn down. Most importantly of all, he was missing a leg. In its place was a wooden prosthetic.
"I'm busy today. Come back tomorrow." His voice sounded deeper and... empty.
"A-Anon... It's us." He stopped his hammering and looked at your group. Maybe you could get him to come back and get his life back.
"Go home." He turned back to his work. You and your friend's jaws dropped to the floor. You came all this way to take him back... and he just told you to leave.
"W-what do you mean?" Twilight asked him what you were all thinking. He sighed and stuck the metal in some water.
"Exactly what I said. Go home." Rainbow stomped her hoof.
"Not without you we won't!" Anon's empty face turned into a frown.
"Yes you are." He turned around and tried to walk into a different “room”, only to be stopped by Twilight. She lit up her horn in case he tried to run… on his one leg.
"Please at least tell us why" Not seeing a way out, he slumped his shoulders.
"I couldn't stand it."
"Couldn't stand what?" You built up the courage to say something.
"Watching other people's happiness and failing in my own." Twilight's magic stopped and you lowered your gaze.
"What do you mean 'failed happiness'? Weren't we enough!?" All of you looked over to Rainbow. She was taking it as a personal attack. That is when Anon turned around and looked straight in her eyes.
"Tell me. How do you feel with Soarin?"
“What?” Rainbow, along with the rest of you, raised an eyebrow. Out of nowhere, Anon kicked over the anvil he was working on.
“TELL ME!” Anon shouted right into her face. Rainbow all but turned white at the outburst.
"I-I feel h-h-happy and l-loved." You could agree with her, feeling the same for Cheese.
"Now how do you feel around your friends." Anon eased off her.
"I feel happy and loved." Rainbow slowly gained some courage. She did make a good point though. Anon, however, brought a hand to his face.
"But it's different. Isn't it?" She couldn't come up with any more arguments, so she nodded. "Now imagine having to watch everyone you know find that love that you would never get in return. How would that feel?" Rainbow scuffed her hoof on the ground, not meeting his gaze. "How would it feel to watch others talk about finding their perfect match, raising a family, and living their lives to the fullest, while you are still stuck without anyone to hold you close and love you more than anything in the world?"
You couldn't meet him in the eyes either. Your whole life you have been making ponies smile, but you never once thought how showing happiness could be a bad thing.
"Didn't think so. So please, just go home." He walked into the other room, if you could call it that. The only separation was a thin curtain. You and your friends slowly turned around and headed for a hotel. It was too late to get a train back to Ponyville. Applejack found a nice place to stay near the tracks. The whole walk back was in silence. Never in your life would you have thought smiling could make people frown. It just wasn’t right, and you didn’t know what to do.
When you arrived at the hotel, Twilight paid for a room big enough to accommodate all of you. You walked to your room and sat down on the floor. Once you all found a spot, Fluttershy spoke up.
"Is it our fault?" All of you looked at her. "Is it our fault that he was driven away." Rarity gave her a supporting hug.
"It's nopony's fault dear. He just couldn't handle what he already had."
"Then why did he leave?" Your attention went to Twilight. "If friendship is supposed to be everything we need, why are we all married?" Rarity didn't have any argument. "I can't help but feel like we neglected him for so long. We all moved on with our lives, but he was stuck in his place. I heard he was shot down from multiple mares, but I didn't think they all would turn him down."
"Wait just a second. Ya KNEW he was goin through this?" Twilight nodded at Applejacks accusation. "Why didn't ya say anythin!?" Twilight recoiled a bit.
"I didn't think this would happen. I just got caught up with Flash and..."
"It's not your fault Twilight. We all should have seen the signs: the drinking, the lack of getting out, his face when we would tell him about our husbands. But we didn't, we ignored it and thought friendship would be enough. Now look at him. He is worse than ever: poor, lonely, and crippled." You gave your two cents. The rest of the mares lowered their heads. "I just want everypony to be happy." All of you fell silent until Dash spoke up.
"So what do we do now?" You looked to Twilight. She would know what to do. She always knew what to do.
"I... don't know girls. He won't go back on his own, or with us. I don't want to put him through any more pain, but he won't last long living in the condition he is."
"What if we found him a mare?" Twilight shook her head at Rarity.
"I don't know about any of you, but I don't know any single mares."
"I think I may know one." Rarity levitated a flier that was sitting on the nightstand over to Twilight. Once Twilight took it in her own magic, she slammed it down.
"No! Absolutely not! I wouldn't do that to anypony, let alone Anon."
"Twilight, what choice do we have? I don't want to see him living that way any more than you do." Twilight looked back down at the flier.
"But her? I don't think she would be a good match for him. She would probably push him away more than ever." Rarity walked over and sat by Twilight.
"Do you want to be the pony that does nothing and loses him or the pony that tried everything she could to save her friend?" Twilight gave a sigh of defeat.
"I guess not." Rarity hugged her close.
"Good, now lets get some sleep. We will have a busy day tomorrow." Rarity walked back to her bed. You, Rainbow, and Applejack walked up to see who they were talking about. The flier read 'Come and see, for one night only, The Great and Powerful Trixie!'
Suddenly, you weren't too sure about Rarity's decision.
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I see you brought this story back. I just hope u will continue writing for it.
Hmm...
Welp.
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Except that she didn't bring him back, even in canon. Flash existed in equestria and EQG's universe, just like the rest of them... except twilight for some reason.
Is it that much of a stretch to pretend that she met him while fighting Sombra?
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Sorry, but this was the first song that came to my mind when I saw this.
A huge drifting fan here.
Looking at character tags, its seems that the possible choices is either Cadance or Luna. But both characters have their 'possible' and 'not possible' factors, so wat?
...The main deviance from the story actually lost a limb,And is broken as all shit?....This...shows promise.
this story really got to me bad and made me cry
all of the pain he must have felt and the thought that he knew that he could not turn back to his old life. it's like watching a close friend become a homeless man
Love it. more NOW
...please
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... You realize Cadence is married. And this doesn't seem to be a "Human marries immortal monarch" story.
I remember this. I still have a link to a pastebin with this in it.
Great Story.
Much Love.
4947260 As I just said, now wat?
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Why would you even mention Cadence, though? @_@
"OH MY FRIGGIN GOD!!!" you scream in horror and despair. "THIS RAINBOW SPARKLE NIGHTMARE WORLD G-RATED MY JOHNSON OFF!! I AIN'T GOT ONE NO MORE!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
And so, you kill yourself.
Why not a changeling? They could probably turn into a human or something.
4947550 Hi have we meet?
*ahem* Let me sum this up:
"WHAAAAI'MSOALONEPITYME"
Seriously, emo McAnon here was grating on my nerves from chapter one. Hey, buddy - you lonely? Get out of your house on your little lonesome - that means without your clinging fucking friends - and go to a bar ... and get someone you schmuck! But no, he'd rather wallow in self pity. But hey, I can dig that, sometimes you just want to feel bad I guess! But then the 'reunion' here happens where the pity party kicks it up to eleven and drops whatever bass and spaghetti it had all over the floor. This chapter is when you roll your eyes and leave the one legged man to his one handed task - if you know what I mean. Twilight should have said 'well fuck you too' and gone home. Asshole doesn't want help, fuck him.
I know it's some big set-up to get Trixie and Anon together or something but it could have been set-up better. If you're doing this from a greentext story (which I assume you are what with background!Applejack in full effect), well ... you're kinda stuck with the set-up you have. It just kinda sucks. Too much self-pity going on and the confrontation between Anon and the Main 6 made me want to punch this douche (and that's coming from me).
Mechanically, you're ... eh. A bit of 'telling' but what gets me are the really awkward sentences.
Why ... have that last part in there at all? After I was satisfied with the sentence, I stopped typing. It's a fake resolution to a situation that didn't even need to be resolved. After I was satisfied with the sentence, I stopped typing. It really doesn't even need to be there because the assumption most readers would make at the line 'She ran right into town to spread the news' would be 'she let him go' as an unvoiced part of that entire thing. After I was satisfied with - you get the idea. This is just an example of some of the really awkward bits that are sprinkled here and there.
There are tense changes, missing punctuation, misspellings ... it's not AWFUL with them but there are enough to be noticeable. Run this through some sort of editor and maybe a pre-reader. You might not want to sink so much time into an AiE story though. It's not the worst AiE I've read but it's not ... great. Low end of average because of the mechanical errors. That and the pity-party Anon here is wallowing in.
4947491 She's tagged in the story.
DA BURR!!!
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I don't know why, but your icon makes me want to kick something.
Completely unrelated, but I just realized I've never informed you of this before.
Ah men! it was really THAT necessary to take away one of his legs? men seeing him like that it makes me think he is like in his 50, just please tell me there is really some way to make his leg grow back or something, but its a very tricky spell or a really advance one that only a princess could perform like Celestia and Luna
……yeah that could work, also…Trixie? they want him to cheer him up by bringing him to a performance? Geez now I wonder why Twilight, haven't talk to Cadence this IS her area of expertise THIS is what she is know for, why won't she talk to her?
Oh well I blame that they were just to depress.
And I still wish for his leg back, please, do me that favor at least on the end of the story
4947694 It's weird but I agree with you and disagree with you to a point. I don't think he's fully doing the "I'm so lonely, pity me." bit as he hasn't bitched and whined about it to anyone else, and he did set off on his own to try and find a way to change it so at least he did something. They also mention that he was turned down by a lot of mares but that's where I kinda start to agree with you. We haven't seen any of the rejection that the character goes through so we can't really feel for him. This is the only mention of him being rejected so he was inadvertently built up as a guy that had a problem but did nothing to resolve it properly until now and I think that's where the main issue is, we need to see the rejection he's been through and how much he's tried to properly feel for him. I also agree that the reunion bit is rather dickish. Again, with out seeing what he went through, it's hard to understand how he got to this level of aggression towards the ones he cared about.
what season are we in?
pinkie never met him either,
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Or in this universe she meet him after her adventure on earth and Flash was a guard at the moment and they bump, don't give it too much though she is just a unicorn in this universe simple as that
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Well he say he doesn't want to bring anyone down with him, so after some rejection we saw in this chapter is normal he stop trying because it was to much pain he couldn't take it anymore, and this 'dick like reunion'? Well…yeah it was cold but think of it he try numerous times, to get with mares only to be turn down his friends were more and more happy, now with children, that mean each day the pain was becoming more and more unbearable, and now he do the ultimate escape, its looks like things turn for the worse now that the same happen AND he is cripple yeah…you are asking a kid to smile after he had to shoot his ravish puppy.
At least that its how I see it
My leg?
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... I hate having side conversations on story pages but you can't say something like that and not explain it. Why does it make you want to kick something?
4947694
Some people are really awkward when it comes to things like a hug. You ever see a person freeze up when they get a hug out of the blue?
Agreed about too much self pity, Plus I don't think the Great and Powerful Trixie would go for the one legged monkey...
Trixie is best POne
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Unless Trixie actually is having a dating site and is actually working helping other find that special someone as part of some company Cadence owns
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...Sorry...
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And no one cared Spike was dead............
4947694 I get what you're saying, but what is he supposed to feel? Get a heart of stone and simply suck it up? Everyone holds the right to be a little selfish, to want for something and feel negative when they can't have it. We can't all be Pinkie Pie and always be happy about everything/anything. He could've done something about it but when you get into a dark spot it's hard to see your options.
Sure he could've gone to a bar to find a mare but (and I know I don't speak for everyone about this) some people just aren't physically attracted to ponies. I'm not shallow enough to love simply for looks but I am certainly not swimming in the deep end of the pool to completely ignore their looks.
And really, can you see Twilight Sparkle the Princess of Friendship simply saying 'Fuck you and your emo train that you rode in on' and go home? Friends don't give up on friends even when they given up on themselves.
Sometimes other people's happiness can make you sadder. Trust me I know
4957253 unfortunately yes
4947694 They said at the end of the chapter that he was shot down by many mares. Maybe he just done, figures no one wants a human. Also, while he is being a little emo, it's not like he isn't doing something that humans do. Comments like this make it sound like no one is like this, and no one deals with depression that feels unbeatable.
A nice chapter, i like it, i am not Happy with every pairing, i don´t know why but i think it is because i just don´t like them and didn´t know how it happend. i just like to read about the moment when someone got their special somepony i think.
But i don´t mid the pairings that much. I don´t know why, but i liked Flash at the start, but somehow i learned to not like him.
4947694 i wonder how would your character from oh to be old again would react to this.
I sympathize fully with this.
4947550 ...is it wrong that I want to see a story about that? I'd be perfectly fine with a one-off!
From the 1st chapter, I thought to myself, If he's so lonely, why don't he ask some girls out instead of wallowing in his own unhappiness. Then it was addressed here that he was shot down many times. I wished he tried in the first chapter before thinking he created his own self- pity party. That he failed to find someone before running and losing his damn leg!
Still interesting and wondering what would happen next.
And Trixie? Are they gonna pay her to date Anon? Or playing match maker?