//------------------------------// // 4. It is something necessary // Story: Traitor(s) // by Jhonn //------------------------------// "Thanks for taking off your armor, I do not want to be banished to you too" - said Cadence in a sarcastic tone. "It's not funny Cadence" - said Twilight. "You know, you should feel more happy, dad could return in less than a week, at least you could show more enthusiasm, in addition, Discord is also back" - Cadence said as she hugged her sister with her wing. "..... sigh, it's not that I'm not happy, I'm just afraid, what will he think when he sees us ?, and ..... them ..." - Twilight finished, as she stopped to snuggle up her sister . "We both know it will not be easy, dad has never held a grudge, not even for his enemies, and I doubt that his family is the first" - Cadence defended. "Yes, but his enemies were not his wives ..." - Twilight whispered, making Cadence feel a small chill, although it is true that his father suffered because of his enemies, they were that, enemies, not his family, Discord do not mention anything else about his health, but ... would it be right to return him home? Was it still his house for him ?, Cadence kept these questions until she managed to speak with Alternative. "We will cross that bridge when we arrive, but first ..." - said Cadence, while they stopped at the entrance to Luna's bedroom- "we have to convince some princesses" - Cadence finished, as she entered with her sister. After Alternative showed Isabell his trunk, it was time to return to the lab, not before Isabell convinced his father to take his ring for a moment, claiming he wanted to check his materials. "You know, daughter, I was hoping to give you the ring for the time of your wedding, I guess I'll have to settle for this" - finished Alternative. "I do not have time for those things dad, and less now, besides, it's your ring, should not you keep it?" - asked Isabell. "Well, I had planned to hide it and that it would be lost with time, but I just could not, and less to sell it, besides, it is very ... attached to me, in more ways than one" - ended Alternative. "I promise that it will not be damaged dad, I just want to pass it through a scanner and ..." - tried to finish Isabell, when Alternative interrupted her. "Yes, it's okay, I'm not an egghead like your daughter" - finished Alternative, making Isabell look at him furious and with a red face. "God, give me patience" - Isabell whispered. "Do not sponge, daughter, now, what do we expect from these blood tests, to be different from the others?" - Alternative asked, making his daughter sigh. "Well, for you to understand, I am looking for something defined in your blood, that is not natural, poisoning of some kind or some disease, in addition, a part is separating, isolating the plasma and others in different sections for a better analysis, even separating metals "- said Isabell. "Wow, I should have taken you out more" - finished Alternative. "Dad !!!" - Isabell shouted, as they entered the laboratory. "Even so, lonely and everything, are you lovely, what happened to that boy ?, your fellow investigator ?, I swear to the gods he was interested." - Alternative asked, making Isabell blush. "W-well, he's doing his research in Japan, so it's not possible, besides, it was only for a while, we did not go out or anything, and, now he has a partner" - Isabell finished. "Hell, I'm sorry, daughter, someday the right one will come, I'm sure" - said Alternative, just before listening to his daughter gasp in surprise. "Dad, I think your secrets exceed you, look at this" - said Isabell. Right in front of them, were the separate components of the blood samples, all normal, but except for a container of a clearly anitnatural color, at least for Isabell, surprised, almost ran to the data analysis. "this is ..... I do not know what this is, it does not belong to any known element, it's more, it seems a type of plasma at high temperature, solid energy ?, or maybe ..." - Isabell continued to digress, ignoring completely to his father, who quietly went to the show. "You are such an amazing daughter, that I can hardly believe that you are not my blood and flesh" - said Alternative while looking at the sample "Dad, can you explain this?" Isabell asked, clearly tired of so many secrets revealed in so few days, it might have been good for her father to tell her a few over the years, and not a bomb. "Well, believe it or not, this is raw magic, for a long time I did not see it, besides, it is not supposed to exist here" - Temrino Alternative with a more serious tone. "Wait, magic?" Isabell asked, clearly disgusted by her father's supposed joke. "This is a blasphemy for you, right Isabell ?, let me show you" - said Alternative while taking some drops from the bag, watering them in a small sample of land that Isabell had for his research. "Dad, what are you ..." - Isabell did not finish saying, when her father closed his eyes, and concentrated his hand up where he left the sample, then immediately, see something that she would swear is an illusion, slowly, a seed that she planted, grew and grew, until forming a beautiful flower, an orchid. "But what, when?" - said Isabell, stunned. "You can call it an energy, but in itself, it's magic, in this place it does not exist for any reason, and I only have it in my blood, but ..." - said Alternative, but then, the orchid began to wither, but it seemed that black sarcillos wrapped like veins, clearly showing that they were the causes of which it began to wither. "... more questions right?" - asked Alternative. "Many more questions" - confirmed Isabell. Canterlot "Luna, we found it" - said Twilight, direct and to the point, causing Cadence to massage her head for the subtlety that the news should have been. When they entered Luna's room, they saw a lot of scattered scientific equipment, where the bed should be, it was a kind of mirror, like Twilight, and in the middle of some papers, was Luna, clearly the same or more emaciated than Twilight, trying to bring her husband back, she and Twilight had started working almost at the same time, but separated, for the convenience of Twilight. "Wait ... what did you say Twilight?" Luna asked, in clear and well justified shock. "What she wants to say, is that our uncle came back, and he found it, but we need help to bring him back, more precisely, your ring" - said Cadence, making Luna's eyes begin to moisten, and at the same time time, levitating a ring clearly damaged, but united, from his neck, from under his wing. "Are you sure that ..." - she could not finish when Twilight interrupted her. "No, the ring is clearly necessary, so you'd better deliver it" - spat Twhilight, when that happened, and the innocence of Alternative, Luna's heart broke into many pieces, not only because she had betrayed her husband, she lost the love of his daughters, in a few months, everything that mattered to her was destroyed by a single pony, only by Celestia's grace and surprisingly Cadence, they managed to save Sombra from a very dreadful death. "... whatever is necessary, I suppose you also need Celestia's?" - asked Luna. "Yes, but ..." - Cadence whispered. "She is more reluctant to leave the ring, it will be somewhat difficult, but if it is to bring it, she will accept" - Luna said with determination. "What else do you need?" Luna asked. "...he will be back possibly in a week, but I think ... it would be good to prepare for ..." - said Cadence, clearly uncomfortable to finish the sentence. "I know ..." - Luna finished.