//------------------------------// // Confrontations // Story: 1000 Years Later // by DekaSkittalz //------------------------------// The room was deathly silent. I could feel all eyes on me. I’m still a bit disoriented from being able to move my own eyes, still in pain from moving at all in a thousand years, and I surprised even myself when I blasted the doors down, but at this point I’m rolling with the flow. Celestia has the gall to look calm, the guards look to be a mix of either pissed or terrified; none in between. The six regular looking ponies that are in the room have a mix of various expressions. This quick survey of the room also tells me a few interesting things. Those six regular looking ponies aren’t normal; They each represent one of the elements of harmony apparently… what happened Celestia? God, just thinking that name pisses me off… Then one of the guards does something stupid. “You’ll not harm our Princess!” he yells as he charges me, a spear aimed right at me. Snapping my vision to him, I knock him away with a blast from my eye, he goes flying and hits the wall with a thud that reverberates around the room, his spear impaling itself inches from his head. Skill shot! My eye hurts a bit from doing this, but I shake it off. Turning my attention back to the rest of the room, I smile at them. Must have been a creepy smile, because the six ponies start to back away slightly. “Anyone else wanna try something stupid!? This is between me and that bitch right there!” I say pointing at Celestia. She remains silent and watches me carefully, her hooves and wings twitching in anticipation of anything I might do. The blue one decides to pipe up. “Oh yeah?! You’ll have to get through us first!” Ignoring her, I continue to glare at Celestia. Her silence is starting to piss me off. Blasting a chunk of the wall by her head, causing debris to explode from her doesn’t even phase her. “FUCKING SAY SOMETHING! All these years, and you’ve got nothing to say!? Well listen here bitch, I’ve got quite a bit!” blasting the spot just in front of her throne still doesn’t phase her. The guards all rush me and I back up a bit and wait until they’re all in the doorway I just blasted open, and send them all flying in one huge group. the choke point is always a fucking slaughter. Walking back in, I glare at the one who imprisoned me. Surprisingly, she finally says something; her voice is a bit shaky, but she doesn’t seem to notice. “What do you want Null.” The purple pony seems to perk up at this. “Wait… Null? As in that statue from the gardens? I thought that was just a statue!” “Yeah, she would have you believe that wouldn’t she.” I spat at her. “And don’t remind me of it… god it fucking sucked.” The blue one decides to try me again. “Yeah, well you’ll be back there soon enough! We’ll beat you!” Snapping my vision to her, I read her info card. “Rainbow Dash, shut the fuck up. This is beyond you.” This startles her, but she’s right back to anger immediately. “How do you know my name?!” I laugh. “I know all your names! Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack! Now shut the fuck up!” I snap, each one flinching as I said their names. Fixing my sight back on Celestia, I decide to answer her question. “What do I want Celestia? I want you dead. I wanna watch this castle burn, and everyone in it, you included. I want to make you pay for what you did it me!” I yell, sending a blast right at her. She brought up a shield just in time, but it cracks a little bit. “You fucking ruined my life! Scratch that, you took it away from me! And I did nothing to deserve it!” Celestia remains quiet, and Twilight decides to speak up this time. Good thing it’s not Rainbow Dash, else she would have gotten blasted. “There’s no way that’s true, Celestia would never do something like that to someone innocent.” I feel something break off in my mind. “Bullshit! Tell them what you did to me Celestia! How you turned me to stone all those years ago based on a what if!” her eyes widen a bit after that. “That’s right bitch, I heard everything! All those years, stuck as a statue, forced to look in one spot, unable to do anything! Unable to talk, unable to sleep, unable to even fucking breathe! Wishing I’d fucking die instead of live another day of that fucking torture, constantly teased with the hope of freedom from your sister-” I pause for a moment, thoughts of what happened to Luna catching up to me. “And that’s another thing! Luna was the only one I ever considered a friend here! And you fucking sat idly by while she got corrupted by Nightmare Moon! A fucking shadow! You being the reason she was so easily corrupted, because of your carelessness!” Her expression shifts from indifference to anger. “Don’t you dare speak of my sister that way!” I send another blast at her shield, cracking it some more and making her flinch involuntarily. “I’ll talk about her however I damn well please! I was there for her more than you ever were! Countless nights she came and vented to me! I’m basically her fucking diary! And now she’s gone! Because you fucking banished her to moon!” I didn’t notice it before, but there’s tears dripping down my face. I ignore them and continue. “Constantly fading in and out of sanity, constant teases for the sweet release of death! When Sombra attacked, when Luna nearly smashed me in a fit of jealousy over you, when Tirek showed up, when I went tumbling down into the ravine! I don’t even know how long its been from that point in time, because that moment completely broke me! She was my only hope, and she was this close to finishing the spell!” I bring my pointer finger and thumb barely a centimeter apart for emphasis. I stop, and take a few breaths. I wipe the tears from my face, and when I pull my arm away from my face, I notice there’s something red on my arm. Is…. Is that blood? confused, I touch my hand under my right eye. Regular tears. I touch my hand under my left eye. Blood. that doesn’t seem healthy… Bringing my attention back to the room, the six ponies seem shocked and at a loss for words. Even the blue one has the wind knocked from her sails. The purple one mumbles to herself. “I thought turning ponies to stone was like putting them to sleep…” I scoff. “It’s nowhere near that humane. It’s comfort for you. Ya’ll think you’re doing things without hurting someone just so you can sleep better at night.” she shys away at that. Turning back to Celestia, I ask her something. “Let me ask you this Celestia. How old do you think I am? Or rather, was; when you ruined my life.” She takes a moment to actually ponder this. “I don’t know anything about you, so I wouldn’t know.” she says evenly. “I was fourteen! I’m a fucking child Celestia! I hope you sleep well knowing what you did to an innocent child! All because of what? My fucking eye? An eye that fucking blinded me when I had it open, and that I didn’t even want!? Do you know how I got this Celestia? How I got here? Because I’m not even from this world! I was trapped in a cave, and I found a blue orb. I touched it, and the next thing I knew, I found myself falling from the sky. I wander for four days, get time traveled three more days by that asshat Discord, and then I get turned to stone by you.” Taking a shaky breath, I recompose myself, if only a little. “And that’s all I can even remember. I don’t remember what home looks like. I don’t remember my parents faces, I don’t remember if I even had siblings, I don’t remember if I was adopted, loved or resented, or if I even had a family! And now it’s too late to even care, because that was all a thousand years ago, give or take! My family, and everything I knew is dead and gone! For all I know, my world could probably be destroyed by now!” Sniffling, I fire blasts at her to punctuate each word. “That. Is. Why. I. Want. You. Dead.” I feel blood dripping from my left eye more heavily now, but I don’t care. Her shield is now spiderwebbed and just barely holding up, the six ponies in between us look terrified, and let out a yelp each time I blasted Celestia’s shield. One more blast should break it… then I can fucking end her! However, I stop when I hear something from behind me that causes my blood to freeze. “N-Null?” That voice… n-no, it can’t be. I turn around slowly look at the source of that voice. Its Luna… it’s fucking Luna! “L-Luna?” She seems hesitant, but nods. “Null? W-what are you doing…” “Telling her I’m trying to kill her sister would probably be a bad idea…” “You’re trying to kill my sister?!” she exclaims. “Shit! I said that out loud?!” She fixes me with sad glare, which is kinda conflicting but she’s somehow pulling it off. “Null… please… don’t do this. We wrongfully imprisoned you, and I’m sorry for that… but don’t go down the same path Nightmare Moon sent me down! Please, I believe in you. I know you’re not evil… I’m your friend, remember? Please… don’t let my trust be misplaced…” she says as a few tears start to build up in her eyes. Man, she’s really broken up about this… if I do this, then everyone would think Celestia was right about me… but at the same time, I’d finally get back at the bitch! But then I’d lose my only friend… But revenge! Looking into Luna’s eyes, I see through her vision for a moment. Focusing on Celestia, I notice she’s got a few tears in her eyes as well, and a look of pure fear on her face. Probably worried I’ll kill her sister or something. Cutting the connection from sheer will, and surprisingly not passing out this time, I focus back on Luna. taking a deep breath, I go to speak, but she catches me off guard when she darts forward and does something that I never could have been prepared for. She hugs me. Her face buried in my chest, her tears staining my shirt. She mutters a bunch of pleases and other things I can’t quite make out. “H-how are you here? I thought Celestia banished you to the moon.” I ask, still in shock. “...Null… That was over a thousand years ago…” This throws me for another loop. I feel a rage building up at the prospect of having lost another thousand years to time. But looking back down at Luna, it melts away into a different kind of anger. Anger at not wanting to hurt her. Which is sort of contradictory in and of itself, but it’s my feelings, I’ll describe them how I want. Internally at war with myself, I find myself frozen in place. Deciding to place my faith in Luna, I reach my arms up slowly and hug her back. “...Alright…” She pulls away after a moment and looks at me with a teary smile. I turn and look back at Celestia. “I still wish you were dead… but I won’t be the one to do it. I won’t be the evil you saw in me. I also know how important you are for the world’s balance.” I look around the damaged throne room, at the six ponies who seem to be confused and still scared. At the unconscious guards scattered across the room. Back at Celestia… a thousand years she ran this place by herself. Wherever… this place is… must be that new castle they relocated to when the Everfree took over. “You’re not a bad leader Celestia. Keeping Equestria up and running for two thousand years will attest to that. You’re just a horrible person…” I see a tear finally streak down her face. “Luna, get me out of here before I change my mind.”