Chapter 3
LET ME OUT
'Here goes nothing.' Applejack opened the door to Peter's room. It was dark, like a nightmare. "Peter, dinners ready." Peter didn't respond with his usual grumbling. Instead, he didn't respond at all. "Peter, are you okay?" Peter didn't respond. Applejack became worried. 'Did something happen?' "Peter-"
"Spike gave ya something." Applejack froze. It wasn't a question, it was a statement. Like Peter knew what had happened that day. Applejack didn't want to answer Peter's question, instead she blocked that question out of her mind.
"Dinner is ready. Now come down here and eat." Peter didn't move. Applejack sighed. She looked into the darkness. "Apple Bloom's here Pete. She wants to see you."
"Apple Bloom?" the way he said it, sounded like he hadn't heard that name in years. Peter got off his bed and walked over to the light. Peter's mane was messy, he had a scar above his right eye, that started from his eyebrow and stopped under his eye. The scar was easily visible, to everypony who looked at Peter. "Then let's not keep her waiting." Peter said with a smile. Applejack stopped him though. "What?" Peter asked.
"Your beard, don't you want to shave it?" Peter looked at his sister annoyingly.
"No."
Dinner wasn't any different. It was the same thing they've been eating, for the past...three years. Peter was back in his room, sitting next to his window. He looked down at the farm. 'Who's that?' Peter noticed two figures walking over to his window. Is that...Spike and Twilight? What are they doing here?'
Twilight and Spike began throwing things at Peter's window. "Do you think we have his attention?" Twilight asked Spike.
"Oh I know we have his attention. Twilight some soldiers will be here in a few minuets. I don't want them to hurt you." Twilight nodded her head, dropped the junk on the floor, and headed back home. Spike continued throwing things at Peter's window. "Come on!!!! You told me to not lose hope, that you heroes will come back, but you know what?! You guys never came back!!!! Why are you hiding your true self?! Why do you hide behind a mask?! Come on and break free!!!!"
"Sir, we're going to give you to the count of three to stop this. One...two-" the soldier never made it to the count of three. Spike punched the soldier in the face. Another soldier came galloping over to Spike, knocking him down with a swift kick to the head. Spike fell to his knees, screaming for the spider inside his friend to take back control! The two soldiers began to beat down on Spike. Spike felt his nose go soft and his arm being popped out of place. "You through?" One of the soldiers asked. Spike's vision was blurred. His head was leaking blood. He smiled.
"Is that all you got?"
'Poor Spike. He gonna be beaten to death. All over a dead hero.'
"Dead you say?" Peter felt a chill run down his spine. He knew that voice. "Are ya going to just sit there and let Spike die?!"
'I don't want him to die, but-'
"But what?!"
'I can't go back out there. They'll kill me!!!!' The voice in Peter's head grew silent. Peter could hear the clanging of shackles in the back of his mind.
"Do y'all honestly think this will hold me???" Peter didn't answer. His body was beginning to shake, as goosebumps rolled over him. "Speechless? When was I ever speechless???" Peter didn't answer, the sounds of the shackles became louder. "Let me out."
'No.'
"Let me out!" Peter wrapped his hooves around his head, the pain becoming unbearable. "LET ME OUT!!!!" Peter's mind suddenly became silent. He trotted over to the bag that he had taken from Applejack's room. He levitated a canister out of the bag, the black liquid inside of it seemed to be alive.
Spike took another punch to the face. Spike's blood had stained the soldiers hooves. "I'm...I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what. throwing garbage at somepony's property?" One soldier said.
"Or for attacking a soldier?" the second one said. Spike ignored the two soldiers.
"I'm sorry for bringing you out!!!" the soldiers became confused on Spike's statement.
"Leave him alone." a dark voice sent chills down the soldiers spines. It sounded as if a demon was talking to them. The two soldiers turned around, to see a figure in black, perched on top of the Apple families house. "Remember me?" the dark figure said. His voice echoed in the ears of the two soldiers.