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// VIII 
// Story: Our Love is Iron 
// by Krovgor Warhawk 
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Begin Again


"Here you go dearie, one cupcake with pink frosting and sprinkles."

"Thank you miss, here's the money."

"Thank you, have a pleasant day."

"You as well."

After the events of last night, Warhawk was determined to make things right with Pinkie and her friends. To do this, he figured the best approach was to purchase Pinkie a cupcake, or an apology cupcake as it were. She seemed like the kind of girl that would be receptive to that. So, after purchasing a cupcake from the appropriately named, Mrs. Cake, he went about his journey to school.

The drive would have been his normal routine of driving and listening to whatever cd's that struck his interest, were it not for the fact that he was going to face a girl he had hurt and her friends. He tried to tell himself to not be nervous, but he just couldn't shake that feeling.

Finally he made it to the school, and after entering the building, he only had one thing to say.

"Oh fuck me."

"Sure, but only if you buy me dinner first."

Warhawk turned to the direction of the familiar voice and saw Adagio, wearing her trademark grin, Aria, and Sonata.

"I thought you were saving yourself for Daemon?" 

That got Adagio to blush a bit but she quickly regained her composure, "Theirs nothing going on between me and Daemon, and besides; I can still have some fun."

Warhawk shook his head, "So I take it that you three are here for moral support?"

"No, we just wanted to watch you fail at saying sorry to cotton candy head," said Aria.

"But I thought that we agreed to be with Jon when he said he was sorry?"

Both Aria and Adagio stared half-eyed at their dimwitted sister while Warhawk raised an eyebrow and said, "I believe she was being sarcastic Sonata."

Sonata looked confused and asked, "What's sarcasm?"

Warhawk was surprised by this and turned to Adagio and Aria, "You never taught your sister sarcasm?!"

"Have you met our sister? It's not our fault she's the worst," said Aria.

"You are!" said Sonata.

As the two sister's glared at each other, Warhawk saw Adagio put a hand to her head.

"So this is what you have to put up with on a daily basis?"

"Such is my fate," Adagio answered wearily.

"You have my pity."

"Oh it could be worse I suppose. I could have Asperger's."

"Heh, I suppose you could."

Both Warhawk and Adagio laughed at the little jab while Aria and Sonata finally stopped glaring at each other. Warhawk then took a breath and said, "Well, I guess I better find Pinkie and apologize before classes start. Don't want a repeat of what happened the last time a big apology was made."

The girls nodded as Warhawk turned toward the hallway's. They were filling up with students, some of whom were at the party last night and were giving Warhawk dirty looks.

"Just got to wade through this sea of filth first."

"Theirs no sea, just hallways filled with angry students giving you dirty looks about what happened last night."

Warhawk turned to Sonata and stared for a moment, "Okay, Sarcasm, and Expressions. I will teach you both of these one day."

"Tch, good luck with that," said Aria.

"Thanks for the vote of confidence."

With all that said, Warhawk and the Dazzlings made their way through the angry students and towards Pinkie's locker; and with each step, Warhawk began to feel more and more nervous, but was reassured with his new friends by his side.





If sorrow and depression had a physical appearance, it would be in the shape of Pinkie Pie. Ever since last night, she hasn't so much as attempted to turn her lips upwards. Her hair had lost all of it's curl, her eyes had no sparkle of happiness, and her even her bright pink color had lost it's luster.

Yes, it was as if she was emitting a perpetual aura of sadness, and everyone around her felt it. Indeed, where once people would look upon the ever smiling Pinkie Pie and feel the urge to smile and laugh no matter how sad they might have been, now they couldn't help but feel sad along with her. And none felt this more than her friends.

"Come on sugar cube, cheer up," asked Applejack.

"Yeah Pinks, this isn't like you," said Rainbow.

Despite her friends best efforts to cheer her up, Pinkie would not smile. In fact the more she was told to forget about last night, the sadder she felt.

While this was going on, Artemis and the rest of the boys made their own comments about the situation.

"Poor Pinkie," said Swift, "I wish their was something I could do."

"Same here," said Arrow.

"I still can't believe what Warhawk did last night," said Zero, "I mean, Pinkie goes out of her way to be his friend and help him open up, and he yells at her. What kind of person does that!"

"I hear ya Zero," said Punk, "But Warhawk did say he wanted to be left alone, and he did tell Pinkie 'no' many times before. I hate to say it, but this was probably destined to happen."

"I get what you're saying Punk but still."

"Well theirs not much we can do about it," said Daemon.

As the guys continued to have their conversation, the girls still tried to make the party girl smile.

"Pinkie dear, you simply must try to lift yourself out of this funk. All this frowning cannot be good for you face," said Rarity.

"Yeah, it's not your fault Warhawk is an insensitive jerk!"

"Rainbow!" chided Sunset.

"What? He is!"

"We already agreed that we shouldn't entirely blame Warhawk on this," said Applejack.

"Especially since he looked stressed and hurt last night," said Fluttershy.

Before Rainbow could respond, the sound of sniffling drew their attention.

"*sniff* I'm sorry girls," Pinkie said in a depressed.

"Oh Pinkie," comforted Fluttershy, "You don't have to apologize to us."

"Yeah Warhawk's the one who should apologize to you," said Rainbow.

Before her friends could say anything, Pinkie beat her to it, "No, he shouldn't."

That took the group by surprise. Then Pinkie turned to Sunset and said, "You were right Sunset, I should have listened to you. I just wanted to make Warhawk smile; but I should have done it in a better way that intrude on his privacy, He told me that he wasn't interested in my parties so many times, but I didn't listen."

Pinkie looked down in growing sadness as she continued to open up to her friends, "I thought I could make him like my parties, but I was an idiot. And now he hates me."

That caused her friends to gasp, leading to Sunset to place her hand on Pinkie's shoulder and say, "You're not an idiot Pinkie Pie, you just made a mistake. I'm sure that if you go to Warhawk and tell him how you feel, he'll forgive you and apologize to you in turn."

Pinkie just shook her heard and walked away, letting Sunset's hand slip from her shoulder. Then she turned around to her disappointed friends and said, "Thanks girls, I really appreciated what you're trying to do. But right now, I just wish Warhawk and I could start over, but I cant. Warhawk hates me, and that's never gonna change. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go find a corner to cry in."

With that, Pinkie turned around only to stop to find Warhawk himself was right behind her. Next to him stood the Dazzlings. Warhawk himself looked sad and remorseful as he saw the tears in Pinkie's eyes, her dulled color, and her straight, flat hair. 

The other girls were surprised to see Warhawk, but Rainbow was filled with rage and immediately went to him and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, taking him by surprise.

"You!" She said, "Haven't you done enough?!"

Before Warhawk could respond, Aria grabbed Rainbow by her shirt and slammed her into the nearby lockers. She got close to her face with a glare that could bore holes into her skull and said, "You ever get in his face like that again, and I'll tear you a new one bigger than the Mariana Trench."

Whatever anger Rainbow felt was swiftly replaced by fear and slight confusion, "Mariana Trench?"

Aria scoffed, rolled her eyes and said, "It's the deepest part of the ocean you moron, read a book besides Daring Doo."

Aria then let Rainbow go and went back to join Warhawk and the others, as a crowd of students began to gather.

A bit of awkward silence followed until Warhawk broke the ice, "I got this for you." Warhawk than presented a cupcake with pink frosting with multi-colored sprinkles. Pinkie took the confection and eyed it for a moment before returning her gaze to Warhawk. "Don't worry, I didn't lace to give you the runs, heh."

More awkward silence followed until Warhawk tried again, "You know, your hair actually isn't bad like that? You should consider getting you hair straightened out more often, heh, heh."

Seeing that his attempt at humor failed as Pinkie remained sad and slightly confused, Warhawk sighed and spoke in a somber tone, "Pinkie I'm really sorry about last night."

That got Pinkie to be taken aback.

"I was...... I was so tired, and with my injury. I... I know that's no excuse for what I did but,"

Warhawk stopped in order to try to find the right words as Pinkie just kept quiet and listened.

"I just..... I know that we've never really gotten along and I know that you mean well but, ....... do you think that maybe we could, ... start over? *sigh* I don't expect you to forgive me, and I wouldn't blame you. I just, wanted you to know that I'm sorry."

More silence followed as everyone waited to see what would happen next. Then, slowly but surely, Pinkie began to smile a bit, her color brightened a bit, and her hair began to curly as she said, "Hello."

"Huh?' replied Warhawk.

"My name is Pinkie Pie. My favorite color is pink, I grew up on a rock farm with three sisters," as Pinkie spoke, telling more facts about herself, more of her smile, color, and curly hair began to return, much to everyone's surprise, especially Warhawk.

"I love to throw parties, bake all kinds of sweet things, and most importantly, I love to see my friends smile. So what's your name?"

Warhawk still looked confused and unsure of himself. Then he noticed Sonata and her sisters out of the corner of his eye, giving him encouraging looks with Adagio gesturing to him saying 'go on.'

Warhawk turned his head back to face Pinkie's smiling face and said slowly, "My name is, Jon Warhawk. I enjoy reading fantasy books, listening to heavy metal music, playing role-play video games, and I have Asperger's."

Pinkie laughed for a bit and asked, "You have butt burgers?"

Before Warhawk could explain, Sonata stepped up and said, "No silly, it's mental condition that basically means that Warhawk see's to world differently and thinks differently."

Pinkie opened her mouth to say, "Ooohhhh, kind of like me!"

Warhawk smiled a bit and said, "Yeah, I guess that's true."

Pinkie gasped for a bit, then smiled and said, "I did it, I got you to smile!"

Warhawk was rather amused by her display, "Got me their."

Soon they began to converse on various things with Pinkie's friends and Aria and Sonata joining in. Sunset herself looked on at the sight with a warm smile, Then she noticed Adagio walking up to her and turned around to watch the scene before them.

"You know, I never thought that we would ever be standing together and watch something like this," said Sunset.

"I never thought that getting banished would lead us to finding true friends," said Adagio.

Sunset turned to her and smirked, "Really?"

Adagio rolled her eyes and admitted,"Yes really."

They turned back to see Warhawk chatting with the others, wearing a smile on his face.

"My sisters and I really are lucky to have met him," said Adagio.

"I think we're all lucky to have met him," said Sunset.

Adagio then noticed Swift and said to Sunset, "If you'll excuse me Sunset, I need to have a little talk with Swift over there," then before Sunset could say anything, Adagio was already on her way to speak with Swift.

"Hello, Swift right?"

Swift was caught off guard and was unnerved to see Adagio speaking with him, before he could say anything Adagio said, "I heard what you did last night to Warhawk."

That made Swift even more nervous as he tried to speak, "Uh, look about that-"

"it's fine," Adagio interrupted, taking Swift by surprise, "Warhawk doesn't blame you and I certainly don't blame you for hitting him."

That got Swift to breath out a sigh of relive.

"However."

That got Swift's attention again.

"If you ever hit Warhawk like that again, you will cease being able to use that hand," Adagio spoke softly in a calm one, "Do I make myself clear?"

Swift nodded as sweat poured from his face.

"Good."

Adagio than lightly smacked him on the bottom, getting him to seize up.

"I'm glad we had this talk."

Adagio then walked away as Swift nearly passed out.