"You'll do fine Eclipsa." Heart said, brushing the hair of their love Eclipsa, who sat in a pile of their own coiled lower half in front of a mirror. Their clothes consisted of a bright blue and pink dress, all one piece. Red lipstick and black eyeliner decorated her face.
"I hope. Shy was really hurt by my mistakes, I'm happy she sees I've changed and wants to reconnect but I'm just so worried." Eclipsa said with a sigh.
"You two have a son together, even if a spark can't be ignited Jr will bind you two forever, be it a separated relationship or a married one."
"I'd prefer married. Jr needs his mom."
"Even with a joint custody relationship he'd have her and you two can still stay friends, but remember, Sparks can take a while to burn back into fire. Remember that this is likely gonna take a while."
"I figured."
"So where are you two meeting at?"
"Mocana Altrive. This fancy place in the upper food district of the kingdom.
"Upper as in it's floating or flying in the air?"
"Both I guess. Upper these days means it's in the sky not high class. Central is ground and lower means literally underground."
"She is a Pegasus, guess being in the air is just second nature."
"True, but the lower district has the best smokehouses."
"You and I will go there someday then."
"Yes, yes we should."
"Good, but right now the focus is Fluttershy. Remember everything about her. Favorite flowers, foods, perfumes, everything."
"Right. So a bouquet of Lavender and maybe a box of chocolate covered strawberries."
"Save the sugar coated fruit for date two, too much right away will set you off as desperate."
"I am desperate."
"Either way. Don't immediately talk about old times unless she brings them up and don't use Jr as some playing card."
"I'd never."
"Good. Just making sure. Well, best I can do." Heart said, Eclipsa hair in a long beautiful bun and ponytail combo that shined a little in the light.
"It looks great!" Eclipsa said, looking her hair over.
"Good. Well, go get her lovebird."
Eclipsa sat across from Fluttershy at the restaurant, it had been booked entirely, as so no autograph searching citizens or fans would ask for pictures, autographs or just disrupt the date. "Good call making this private." Fluttershy said, the mare dressed in a stunning tight dark red dress, with a sky blue set of eyeliner and lipstick to complement her dress.
"Heh, well the downside to being a famous Royal and all." Eclipsa said with a scratch to the back of her head. "Have to admit, this place is amazing. Since this Kingdom got off its feet, even with starfish clones I've been extremely busy. Paperwork and meetings and ugh."
"I can imagine. So, what is it you oversee exactly?"
"Mostly things involving the children of the kingdom. School fundings, parks, ect."
"I see. Explains why the public parks look akin to carnivals."
Eclipsa chuckled. "Yeah well between what King had when he inherited his castle and such from the prior Nothingness King and Cript's own fortune with his company and such keeping the people and therefore children happy and well isn't an issue. Though Leon handles security, both at the war front and domestic."
"So each of you all handle something? Even Star and Blitz?"
"Heh, yeah. Blitz deals with anything up in the air, be them jets, beings with flight capabilities, or buildings. Star like the other reflections make sure to protect the ethereal aspects, watching over the dreams of the people to keep moral but to also deal with anything that might try and infiltrate from the dream realm."
"Keeps busy then. Good." Fluttershy said as they took a sip of their drink. "It's been nice to work with Krott again, been making use of the men back at base and the base itself."
"And you're okay with that, right?"
"After your display and hard work plus what we found out about Vincent, yeah. Nexus has always looked out for their own, yet he was willing and did leave us for dead so, better off traitors than dead anyway.”
“True. So… what was it like, growing up in Nexus?”
“Heh. A double life really. Summers, weekends and holidays was with Nexus, schooling and all that. Then came to Equestria normal days, more school and all that. Grew up learning my ABC’s and advanced space travel at the same time.”
“Yeesh.”
“Heh, was easy to keep good grades on Equestria. So despite the work I had a lot of free time. They get all the education stuff out of the way by age ten or so, after that is combat training and simulations, then graduation after five or six years of that then we go on actual missions.”
“So by age fifteen you were already an active agent?”
“Yeah. They start you off easy, recon and intelligence gathering. Prove your skills worthy and you move onto target missions. Capture or elimination. Have the smarts for it and they put you in the labs, working on anything from power to weapons to ships to serums to… anything and everything.”
“They stick you in a lab then?”
“Twice. First time was called Project Run. It was the serum that they use to make their Speedsters, it was me and about seven hundred others working on it. I mostly just made sure the stabilizers did their job when bonding to the host. God… Four hundred and sixty people, people nexus abducted were killed in the testing.”
“Christ…”
“The, second was called Project Phobo. Was a more efficient version of our light shooters.”
“Light shooters? Like Laser guns?”
“Sorta, rather than shooting out a beam of electrical energy these guns absorbed actual light from around us and fired it in a concentrated ultra violet radioactive blast. If it didn’t incinerate you you were left with a fifth degree burn and most likely full body cancer.”
“Ouch… I mean, effective and impressive but ouch.”
“Yeah. The version the team I was on made managed to charge it’s full clip in about seven seconds in direct sunlight, eleven inside a building so long as there was light.”
“Huh…”
“Those were the only times I was put in the labs, the rest I did target missions and foot soldier work and just accepted the promotions as they came.”
“So you’ve seen… way more bloodshed and death than I expected.”
“Nexus and death just kinda co-exist. Or Nexus causes Death. Either way.”
The date went along well for the two, the more Eclipsa heard about Scotch’s past the more she knew the real mare they first fell for. The date came to an end and Scotch returned to their home at the Nexus base and Eclipsa to her room with Heart.
Heart was playing a game when Eclipsa entered. “Hey! So, how’s it go?”
WIth a smile Eclipsa slithered up to Heart, wrapping her tail around Heart’s tightly. “Good, think we’re on the right track. Got another date lined up for next month.”
“Great. Feeling better?”
“Lots. I’m hoping things work out well.”
“They well, now, what shall we do?” Heart asked, taking Eclipsa by the chin and looking them in the eyes.
Eclipsa smiled, a lustful giggling escaping her throat. “Well, that depends, have I been a good girl today~?”
“Oh, you have been a very, very good girl~”