//------------------------------// // Chapter 8:The Return (between Uprooted & Common ground) // Story: The Life of Purple Artist // by PurpleArtist //------------------------------// While inside with his wife the store was closed and she was on maternity leave where there was a knock on the door where Target got it and told her husband to keep eating lunch where at the door was her brother in law Base and asked if Purple Artist was here where she told him he is and let him in. He asked his baby brother how he was but Purple Artist just ignored him but he told his baby brother that he was through rehab to get over his cider addiction where Purple didn’t care about his brother who blames stuff that it’s there problems and not his. He asked his brother if he got any of his letters but his response was that he used his fire spell and burned them but Purple Artist knows destruction, restoration, illusion and alteration spells not adding teleporting, levitating and lighting spells. In combat training he used the alteration spell and created phantom versions of himself where they couldn’t tell him from a few clones apart until a officer kicked one with his back hooves and his hooves went through the clones. The ice blue pegasus sat down wanting to talk to his brother face to face where he asked what happened to his wife or Base’s ex wife where Purple told him that someone assassinated her and he hasn’t told his niece and nephew. He doesn’t know how to apologize to his baby brother but asked If he misses Blue (their unicorn sister and she was a shade of sapphire and navy blue combined and her cutie mark was a water puddle of a lake where she loved swimming and scuba diving even skinny dipping but her nickname was Water). The pegasus with a baseball base cutie mark told his brother that he wants to be friends and what Purple Artist wants. He got up and placed his plate into the stainless steel double sink but said “All i ever wanted to do was to make you proud but all you ever did was push me down and never let me try anything new, i wanted to try flying you told me was too dangerous i was taught my pegasus soldiers how to fly, i wanted to try golf but no it’s a sport that involves a lot of walking and patience, I wanted to be a painter but you told me no where they don’t make a lot of money, i wanted to be a police stallion but you told me no where they get into danger a lot, i wanted to be a fire stallion but you told me no because it’s dangerous (this is a time era where the SCBA masks aren’t invented nor the kevlar-nylon modern firefighters have in IRL) because they only wear 4 three quarter rubber boots and leather or canvas jackets also a metal helmet. There were a lot of careers I wanted to try but you always told me no. I said when I was 17 that I wanted to get married but told me it’s a waste of time where I am married your wife for sometime until she was killed and now I got remarried and I'm happier than ever. If you want to see me happy then let me do what I want because I'm 21 years old and happy you say my older brother doesn’t exist anymore!” Said the 22 year old alicorn to his 26 almost 27 year old older brother that he wanted to try and be things when he was older but his older brother just suppressed him from trying to do those things he wanted to do. Base doesn’t know how badly he hurted him by suppressing things he wanted to do. He then walked out the backdoor singing “This is the Equestrian Military Mr. Pony. No separate rooms nor eating with the family. This is the Equestrian Military Ms. Pony we love the quarters nice and cleansed you had a housekeeper to clean the house but they won’t be able to help you out anymore. Do what the trumpeters command there in the military and not in an assembly. This is the military Mr. Pony you and your Lady went for fun in town. She had to be afraid but this is the military.” he sang while walking out singing the song which it’s 2:50 (2 minutes and 50 seconds) long. Outside he just stared blankly into the sky they fell onto his back just staring up at the sky but couldn’t believe that 2 months ago the town was brainwashed but he and the Mrs. were away with the kids to visit his in-laws in there home town somewhere up north but heard reports about what happened. His brother soon appeared looking down on him but asked if he wanted a race around town twice and back here. He had his wife stand back here and note on who’s the fastest. She had a clipboard and a feather where she wrote down her husband and brother in law names but a drew and a line between the 2. The 2 stretched but when she told them to go she noticed her husband standing there where he told her he’s giving him a 5 second head start then he started to fly where 4 seconds later he was upside down where he asked how he loved winning almost 5 seconds ago but when the race started he couldn’t find his brother where that was when he was still behind. The average pegasus flies at 373 miles per hour/600 KPH but Purple Artist is more lighter and thinner (due to exercising) so he flies around 425 MPH/643 KPH but he’s also more agile making him turn quicker. She Used her magic where when Purple Artist flew by he was going 440 MPH and Base was going 340 MPH where he kept his normal speed before one of his wings cramped up which actually happened to him before when he and his wife were busy with love making but he has a high endurance but gives in quick. He came ½ a minute behind his baby brother but by the time where Base was back by town hall Purple Artist was landing where he got a cup of water to have a quick drink of water. Base thought he won when Purple came out of his house and asked what took him 12 minutes where he talked to some town pones on what took him so long. His sister in law told him that isn’t the fastest thing in where he’s fast in bed where Base he just said “Ew. I didn’t need to know that.” he said on what he just learned about his brother on how quick he is in bed. When night started to approach fast Target wouldn’t mind having her brother in law stay the night but Purple told his brother to get and go get a motel where he asked if not for all the past times he would let his brother sleep in his bed when he had Nightmares. Purple told him last time he shot him in the foot while he slept and while Purple sleeps what next he’s going to shoot both of them because he’s mad that his wife and him have a family and raising Base’s colt and filly as their own where Base is a drunk and every now and then a mare abuser. When they were in Manehattan when the 2 brother’s got lunch Base slapped the waitress on her cute round plot with his wing and he’s lucky she didn’t attack him where from Purple’s eyes she looked like the type of mare that could take on 20 stallions and not lose and not break a sweat where she looks fragile but isn’t. In the kitchen Purple told his wife that when he and his brother were at a diner when the same waitress placed there food onto the table Base slipped his phone number into the waitress uniform pocket and he told his brother that the mare isn’t his type where she’ll buck (kick) him like through 12 brick walls. He let his wife decide on what to do where she set him up on the couch when Target when she turned around to go up stairs Base slapped her on her flank where she told him that she may be expecting but she’ll mess him badly it won’t even be funny. She told him that she isn’t the type to push her buttons when pushing her buttons where it’ll be so embarrassing for him to tell in the locker room at the stadium in Manehattan where the other baseball players would think he’s weak or made the wrong mare mad. She then went upstairs and blew out the candle in her and her husband’s bedroom where she went to sleep. In the middle of the night while the house was soundly asleep where there was a shattering noise where the 2 got up where he told her he’s going to deal with it and she told him she’ll deal with it it’s probably his brother who can’t see in the dark and accidentally dropped something. She went to check it out where she lit a match and lit a candle where she used her levitation magic to hold the candle and the candle holder. Downstairs Base was looking for a drop to drink but only could find nothing but water but he Accidentally dropped the pickle jar but found no cider in their fridge, just nothing but water for something to drink. Target she asked if she could help him find something where he asked if they got something else to drink besides water but she told him no just water where he can always go back to sleep and wait until the morning where in the morning she’s going to trot over to the store and get some milk and orange juice before breakfast starts but until then nothing but water. He didn’t want water but out of options he just went back to bed after he cleaned up the mess he made then the 2 went to sleep in there respective areas but he grew more trustful for cider where he snuck out at night while they were still sleeping where at the convenience store it was closed so he kicked the glass but the alarm sounded. He quickly grabbed a few 12 packs of cider and galloped out of the store before the police arrived and went back to the house where he started to drink the cider as quick as he could before his brother and sister in law found out but by the time he could finish the sun started to rise but noticed a picture so he got up and walked over there. He used his wing and picked up the picture frame to see a picture of his deceased ex-wife where he started to sob where Purple Artist heard crying where he stealthily walked down the stairs and confronted his brother for drinking cider but he didn’t do it loudly because his wife hates to be disturbed and if she sees cider bottles around the couch then both of their flanks will be in so much trouble where they can’t even image the pain there going to be in if there lucky they’ll lose their hearing instead. He told his older brother that his wife if she sees this they should run or fly for the hills because to her the house is a sacred place and if it's messy on how it is now she’ll search all of Equestria even the world to find you and for making her to search for you your flank is going to be sore where it’s not going to be funny. He entirely didn’t believe him when Purple told his brother that a mare spilled hot soup on her 2 months before he and her met and she chased her all the way to the Crystal Empire and it wasn’t pretty of the outcome. He asked his baby brother on the outcome but Purple Artist mysteriously teleported then teleported right back and slammed a vanilla folder into Base’s chest and said “Be Careful on what you wish for.” he said wishing him for not wishing on what he asked. The file told him what he read of reports of a domestic violence but when the CEPD (Crystal Empire Police Department) got there they found bloodstains covering the entire room. He asked his baby brother that he married a murderer where he told her that her career if caught by a foreign agent or so her job is to fight nastily and leave no witnesses. He quickly cleaned up the mess and placed the bottles in the recycle bin under the empty soda bottles but he told his baby brother if his wife finds out her brother in law was drinking well he’ll be on the first bus from Ponyville to Manehattan. Base he started to gallop out of the kitchen but a female voice told him not to where he was scared then a rookie going into his first combat where he begged his baby brother to call off his wife but Purple told him that his wife will do what she wants to do and if he tries to stop her well last time she slapped him with her left hoof. He begged his sister in law not to kill him but she looked at Purple Artist if he was crazy where he told his wife that If he made her mad or outrages well she would’ve tracked him down and that’s that. He asked his sister in law that back in Manehattan well some shady ponies been following him and he asked on how he should deal with it where she said “Don’t take the same way home take different routes, run a few red lights or stop signs and if they follow well place some in the cylinder or whatnot and take care of business.” she said on how to deal with it and what to do. He told her that he never killed someone and she told him that he better learn where there’s some pones out there. Well friendship isn’t magic. They both heard Purple Artist say “Ah. Because that’s the universe we live in where Friendship is Magic. I’m just going to shut up now.” he said while they looked at him that they live in the friendship is magic universe but decided to shut up before one of them said or did something. He told her it's a long way to Manehattan and he should go to the train station but she told him that he’s going to sit down, be quiet and eat breakfast where his brother makes killer pancakes and his cooking is the best where he should’ve been named “Purple Chef” he makes good food and should’ve been in culinary and not a artist. He’s embarrassed of his wife exposing his cooking hobby but made homemade pancakes and when they were done he slid the plates to his wife and brother then made his own and they all ate. His brother complimented his cooking where he should've never doubted his brother for a second. Target she never heard of the 2 get along but Purple Artist always told her that the 2 never got along and always fought and would like to see the 2 to get along but told the 2 to kiss but the 2 told her no where if the other was a mare but not relatives then they would. She told them she can make there life a living nightmare where Purple told his wife that she can hurt him or even geld him but he’s never going to kiss his brother not on the head or the mouth but they both told her that if they were the last ponies on the face of the world and had the ability to repopulate they would rather pass away and be foal-less. After he ate he kissed his 2nd sister in law on the head and tightly hugged his baby brother and left. They noticed something on the table and used their magic to see what it was where he got them baseball tickets in box seats where he told his wife that box seats for baseball are between 2000 to 8000 bits or 10 bits for regular seating..