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How long has it been? It feels like it’s been years since I was forced to become Princess Twilight Sparkle’s personal royal guard. The only reason why I’m even in this position is that Luna, the Princess of the Night, claims that I am her long lost son. And by putting me here she hopes that it would bring back 'my' memories. Well, that’s not going to happen. After all, I’m not him and he lived over a thousand years ago.

I don’t like the armor I have on. It looks like regular armor that the rest of the royal guards have, but it’s slightly different. For one it is a different color scheme. Instead of gold, it’s purple instead. While I don’t hate the design I do hate the weight of it. It feels so heavy it slows me down significantly. Plus the noise it makes alerts everypony to my presence.

But where did I get it? Well… I don’t remember. I don’t recall putting it on. The last thing I recall is standing in the throne room and then winding up next to Twilight. When I did ask I wasn’t given the whole story. Twilight said I was struggling a bit, so they had to hold me down, but then they had to call in half of Celestia’s guards. What happened next is a mystery

Ever since then its been nothing but training and standing. And when I’m not doing that, I’m standing right next to her, awkwardly. I don’t say anything at all. 

Speaking of training. I’ve been receiving special training from Twilights brother, Shining Armor. His training was just like everything I expected. Brutal, just plain brutal. He had me running laps, wing push-ups, and even swimming laps, twenty times the regular amount a normal pegasus guard would do. Close combat training was a nightmare. Every time I was knocked to my feet he wouldn’t give me the chance to recover. So I ended up with small cuts and bruises all around my body. I healed in the end but the abuse was getting to me.

I look around and see that nothing has changed. Everything is still the same as it was 5 minutes ago. Twilight is still reading her book. What is it about? I don’t know.

These last few weeks have been interesting, to say the least. There haven’t been any major events involving her. Things have been relatively quiet or simple. The only time I was dragged out of Ponyville was because the map had called Twilight and Fluttershy. And being that I was Twilights guard meant that I had to go with her.

There was a feud between two families in an area filled with various animals. The families had forgotten what they were fighting about and were throwing vegetables and hay and whatnot. In the end, they got together. 

Apparently it started with a disagreement about the animals. Or something, I don’t know, I got knocked out by a log.

Then there was something that had to do with Applejack’s friend, Rara, or something. Apparently, she’s also called Countess Coloratura. Anyway, there was a music festival happening and there was an issue with her manager. I spied on him for a bit and found out that he was one of 'those' managers.

So that issue was solved in the end. I didn't do much. In fact, it would have been dealt with even without me being there.





How much longer? My feet, er, hooves are killing me.

Twilight was rearranging her library… again. She does that even if there’s a single new addition to it. I’m starting to think she has no life outside her circle of friends. 

I hear a loud belch coming from across the hallway followed by the smell of smoke. A little purple dragon by the name of Spike comes in holding a scroll. He brings it up to Twilight, who thanks him and takes it. Spike then nods and leaves again, probably to read his comics. Upon closer inspection, it has the royal seal on it.

Great… another one.

I’m betting 200 bits that it’s from Princess Luna. She’s been sending these letters asking if I had any of my memories returned. And the short answer has always been: no.

Twilight breaks the seal and unrolls the letter and reads. A small frown emerges and looks at me.

Knew it

I shake my head in response. She takes a deep sigh and begins to write a letter of her own to send back. These letters have been coming in almost every day around the same time. And every time it was the same response.

I know I should say something but the pay is good. I earn about 2000 bits a week. Its the only reason why I haven’t done so. Octavia drooled when I showed her my pay for my first week.

“Spike!” Twilight called for her assistant.

Spike came back in, a bit annoyed, probably because he was on a good part in his comic. He took the scrolled up letter and sent it away. He looked back at Twilight, waiting if there was something else she wanted him to do. When she said there wasn’t, he left.

We were left alone again. I looked over to a nonexisting clock. Only a few more hours and I would be done for the day.





I made my way back to my house, which was in the middle of being renovated. Those bits had to be used for something. Octavia suggested putting a second floor. What for? I don’t know entirely. She did want a room that would fit her musician’s life. The same goes for Vinyl.

I walk up to the door but stopped to check on my surroundings. I can never let my guard down when I’m out in the open. I quickly unlock the door and slip inside. I finally relax my muscles and let my body go limp.

“Hiya Silent!” A bubbly voice calls out.

I open an eye and saw a white pegasus filly looking at me. It was Lilly, who probably broke in again since Vinyl set up a barrier to block teleportation while inside the house. Yes, she had the ability to teleport. I did too as well. Apparently I was a member of a secret species of pegasus. They had higher magic levels than even unicorns, but due to not having any horns they couldn't use magic like them. At least not entirely. Teleportation was one of them. Oh and they had telepathy.

So, Lilly. How are things back at home?

“Same old same old. Except for the fact that many mares are taking it easy for now since… you know why.”

Don’t remind me.

I shudder at what she was referring to. The encounter with the village mares left me traumatized. But since then I haven’t had any encounters with Silver Dusk or Gray Mist. However, they aren’t the only ones who I’ve been looking out for. There is one other mare who is potentially carrying my child. That it, Spitfire.

Yes, that Spitfire, the captain of the wonderbolts. For reasons unknown to me, she grew an obsession over me. All we had was two encounters. One where we crashed into each other outside of Ponyville and the other when she smashed into me during a wonderbolts show, which resulted in us being admitted into the hospital.

“Anyway, I just came by to say hello. I’m going to hang out with the crusaders. Perhaps I’ll finally get my cutie mark.” With that, she jumped through an open window. Followed by the sound of glass breaking.

Has that been open this whole time?

I decide to let it slip this time and make my way to the kitchen, where I find Octavia and Vinyl waiting for me. Octavia was stirring what I believe is supper. I took a whiff and it smelled great.

“Oh! Silent, you’re home!” Octavia trots over to me. She plants her lips on mine. She breaks apart. “How was guard duty?” She asks.

‘Same… old... Same old.” I say.

I look over at Vinyl, who was working on a strange device. She was focusing so much of her attention on the device that she didn’t even notice me move from one side of her to the other. Getting a better look at the device it looked a muzzle mouth guard.

“DONE!” Vinyl shouted, startling me a bit. “Now to wait for Silent to come- GAH!” She screamed in surprise once she noticed me. “Dude, not cool.”

‘...Sorry?” I apologized.

"Whatever. Anyway, I got the voice box working.” She pushed the muzzle in front of me. I took a closer look at it. Apart from being the shape of a muzzle, it was also back with purple edges, there were wires exposed all around it, making it look like it wasn’t safe to use.

“Let's give it a go, shall we?” She placed it around my muzzle. It made a few beeps and let out a few small sparks. “Now move your mouth as if you were talking.”

“Okay, Vinyl- OH! Now, this sounds weird.” The voice I ‘spoke’ with sounded very robotic and reminded me of a certain theoretical physicist.

“Yeah! I knew it would work.” Vinyl began to celebrate her success.

“I’m fine with the voice, but I don’t like how it looks. It makes me feel… like a perv.” 

“Oh come on Silent. Cut me some slack will ya?” Vinyl looked at me as if I was ungrateful. “It’s only a prototype so I’ll change it later down the line. So for now, deal with it.”

“Fine.”

I removed the device from my mouth and gave it back to Vinyl. She set it aside. 

“Silent?” Octavia called my name. I turned to her and she looks as if she wanted to say something to me. She looked away and had a small blush running across her face.

“..yes?” 

She opened her mouth to speak but had trouble saying it. I gave her a reassuring look and she calmed down a bit. “Silent, I went to the hospital for a check-up and…” She said the last part in a soft whisper.

I instinctively knew what she said, but I wanted to hear it out loud for myself. I placed a hoof up to her cheek. She smiled and took a deep breath.

“Silent, I’m pregnant.

Hi Pregnant, I’m Dad.

I wanted to say that, but it would ruin the moment. Instead, I pulled her in for a passionate kiss.

“Aw yeah!” Vinyl yelled from behind. “So, Tavi, am I gonna get to be the godmother?” She nudged Octavia while raising and lowering an eyebrow.

Octavia rolled her eyes. “Yes, Vinyl, you can be.” she chuckled while Vinyl gave off a victory screech. She looked at me. “Are you hoping for a colt or a filly?’ she asked.

...Yes.

But in all seriousness, I didn’t have a preference in gender for my foal. If the gender ratio is to go by then chances are that it would be a filly. Then again, it would be nice to have a colt in this uneven world. I looked back at Octavia, who was still waiting for my answer. I have a simple shrug.

“Oh?!” She sounded surprised. “Well now, most parents would hope for a colt in this situation, but if you don’t have a preference, then I guess that’s fine. After all, we’re not the only couple expecting.”

Octavia decided it was time to eat. So we all helped to set the table ready. Vinyl grabbed all the necessary items, like plates and cups, and I served everypony. Since Octavia was the one who made it she was allowed to relax and wait. When everything was set and done we all dug in.





Where are you, Twilight?

I was back in the castle awaiting Twilight to appear, but she was nowhere to be seen. I arrived a few minutes earlier, but even then I would still find Twilight awake. I looked throughout the castle but found nopony around. Was my eternal clock off?

Here I am standing in the middle of the hallway like an idiot. I’m currently wearing full armor, but this time I’m not wearing my scarf, so the collar is exposed. If she asks about it I’ll just say what I usually always say to her: nothing.

I made my way to Spikes room or tried to, this castle looks a lot bigger on the inside than it does on the outside. I probably spent about forty-five minutes looking for the room, but when I knocked there was no pony to answer.

Is she out somewhere? Oh, wait… she is!

I wanted to slap myself for forgetting that she was going to be giving some presentations somewhere. She had told me a few minutes after my shift ended yesterday. Oh well, she would probably be heading back now, so no point on heading out now.

I turned to make my way over to the front doors of the castle, but an idea popped into my head. I was alone in a jumbo maze. Teleporting would come in handy right about now. Then an itch of curiosity came. There were so many places in the castle that I haven’t been to. I mentally slap myself for even thinking that. I’m sure Twilight has a spell set up to prevent teleportation by intruders.

...I’m not an intruder.

I sigh in defeat. I tell myself that it’s only this once. I relax by breathing in and out a few times. Then the scene changes in front of me. I’m in Twilights study. There are books everywhere, some are neatly stacked, but others are opened with sticky-notes on the pages and on the floor. Now that I think about it, she leaves the castle like this all the time. The entire structure is her study.

The scene changes again and I find myself in a bedroom. It looks like a standard guest room in the castle so I teleport again. This time I’m in another room, but it’s a lot bigger and with an imperial style bed instead of a regular bed. There are a lot more books around this time. The entire floor is covered in them, ranging from history books to what I’m guessing are spellbooks.

Twilight... you need to pick up after yourself or get a maid.

The scene shifts again and I’m in the library. Slightly disappointed in myself for appearing in a room that I’ve been to before. But something is here that wasn’t here before. A purple framed mirror. It’s connected to various items with a book on the top. I squint my eyes for a bit as the mirror itself looks familiar. The memory hits me like a brick wall, it’s the same mirror I saw while I was testing my teleportation ability for the first time.

Okay one more and that’s it.

The world shifts and I find myself on the roots of a tree above the table-map. Disappointing. Thinking that there is nothing to see I then hear somepony giving an ominous chuckle. I look down to see a purple pony, but it’s not Twilight. This pony is a regular unicorn with a light purple coat and a darker shade of purple mane with a light blue stripe.

“Well when you say it like that, it does sound kind of silly.” 

Before I can make myself be known to the unknown pony the doors open. Twilight and Spike are back. Spike is the first one to notice the unicorn.

“Or it's totally true!”

The unicorn smiles maliciously and leans forward on the table. “Welcome home, Twilight.” She says, giving me the impression that they’ve met before and not on good terms. She then pulls out an old looking scroll and casts a spell on it. It levitates above the table and sends down an energy bolt, which activates the map.

“What are you doing, Starlight?” Twilight demands.

“I’d tell you, but I don’t want to ruin the surprise.” She then crumples up the scroll and tosses it to Twilight.  “Won’t be needing that anymore.” Then a portal appears, creating an air vortex. Twilight fires a spell but it simply deflected. Starlight then surrounds herself in her magic and levitates off the ground and into the portal.

I think I should do something. Well, here goes nothing.

I quickly teleport underneath the unsuspecting unicorn and grab her by the forelegs.

“What? Who are you?! Let go of me.” Starlight tries to kick me off her, but I hold on tight.

“Silent, what are you thinking? You don’t know what that portal will take both of you!” Twilight shouts.

We are immediately sucked into the portal. Starlight finally frees herself from my grip. She kicks me on the head, my helmet absorbs the impact, but it’s knocked off my head. It’s lost to the green-colored vortex we’re in.

“How bold of you. Silent, was it?” She looks at me in amusement. “Didn’t know Twilight had a guard on stand by.” She charges up her horn and fires it at me. “Let’s see how well you are without your fancy armor.”

The blast hits me and my entire armor is disintegrated. The only thing left on me is my shapeshifting collar. It can turn into a helmet that drains most magic from me and anypony who makes physical contact with me. I'm not sure if I should feel glad or not that it's gone. Using the helmet won't do me any good right now though. Unless I can get close enough to her.

Let’s see if I can teleport in here too.

My vision shifts from being in front of her to behind her. I give her a roundhouse kick to the head. She grabs her head and turns around. Her face has changed attitude.

“How did you do that?” She asks in confusion, there's also a bit of uncertainty in her voice.

I decide to do it again, but this time appear under her and give her an uppercut.

“*Herk* H-how?” She sends a couple of energy beams at me, only for me to easily dodge them by teleporting.

“I don’t have time for this.” I then feel paralyzed. “Let’s see how you handle being nothing but a foal!” 

I feel like the weird vortex is getting a lot bigger, but then I realize I’m getting smaller. When it finally stops she grabs me and pulls me closer to her.

“Aw how cute. Not so tough now are we?” She then looks ahead. “Well my stop is almost here, but since we’re already heading back in time lets send you back even further, so far in fact that you won’t affect my plans!!!” 

Wait. Time? We’re time traveling?

She throws me with such force that I can’t comprehend whats going on. I try to use my wings to slow down, but they do nothing. I can only hope where ever I land that it’s soft. My vision goes white, which is a nice change, but then I feel the hard ground. The pain is unusually great that I want to cry. I feel the dirt buried deep in my nostrils so that I need to breathe from my mouth.

I open my eyes. The world is blurry, but I can just make up the sun rising slowly. I try to get up, but the pain stops me from doing so. I feel myself starting to cry. Why do I want somepony to cradle me all of a sudden? I soon start to pass out from the pain.

The last thing I see is a dark blue figure walking towards me.