//------------------------------// // Breakup and Discovery // Story: EQG Series Finale (new) - Part 1/2 // by EverythingGuy //------------------------------// Later that evening, Twilight was hurrying to the cafe near CHS, the Sweet Shoppe, where she had asked Timber to meet her. She had several few questions on her mind. In particular, her mind kept going back to the horrified enraged expression on Moondancer's face when she told her who she was dating. She hadn't mentioned she was going to break up with him because she wanted to do that first. The sooner this was done, the sooner she could find out why Moondancer was so scared of or/and enraged by him. She entered the establishment and found Timber waiting for her at one of the tables. He waved her over with a big smile on his face. Twilight gave a small smile back and walked over. “Miss me already?” he flirted. “Uh, Timber, I didn’t ask you to meet me here for a date,” Twilight explained as she sat down on the other side of the table. “Oh.” Timber blinked twice in surprise. “You see,” Twilight bit her lip as she began her breakup speech, “you’re a nice guy, Timber, and I liked dating you, but—” “Wait,” he interrupted, realization setting in, “why does it sound like you’re breaking up with me? Are you breaking up with me?” “Well, yes,” Twilight managed to get out. “Look, it’s not you, okay? I’m just not as invested in this relationship as I was when we started out, and—” “Twilight, I don’t know how you found out, but I swear none of it meant anything,” Timber interrupted again, his tone becoming very frantic. “I was only doing it because I liked the attention.” Twilight’s eyes widened at Timber’s sudden declaration. Then she just stared at Timber, her face twisting in complete utter confusion. “What in the hay are you talking about?” she exclaimed. Timber’s jaw dropped as he realized what had just happened. “You mean, you don’t know.” “Know what?” “Uh,” Timber’s eyes darted away from her as he replied, “nothing.” Twilight’s eyes narrowed as her gaze transformed into a hard glare. “Timber, this relationship is going to be over regardless of what you end up telling me" Twilight stated sternly "and since you have nothing to lose anyway, you might as well just tell me everything,”. Timber whimpered in fear. Then, he took a breath and put on an obviously forced confident expression. “I know you say it’s over, but are you sure I can’t change your mind?” he purred. “I mean, I’m sure whatever the problem is it’s nothing that time and my natural charm can’t fix.” Twilight blinked twice before her glare intensified, getting angrier. “Didn’t you hear what I just said?” she tried her hardest not to shout. “The problem is that I’m not as invested in this relationship as I used to be, and it’s going to take more than just charming me to fix that. And what if I want more from relationship than just charm?” Timber opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything, he was suddenly doused with a hot sticky liquid. He cried in surprise and turned to see Twilight's old Crystal Prep classmate Sunny Flare standing there with a glare that could melt rocks. "Sunny Flare?" Twilight asked. "What are you doing here?" "Doing you a big favor." Her old classmate responded while still glaring at Timber. “Um, do I know you?” Timber asked Sunny innocently, still dripping with tea. “No,” Sunny replied with an anger-tinged calm, “but I believe you know my friend.” She pulled out her phone and showed a picture of her with four other girls Twilight recognized. Then she pointed to Lemon Zest, practically shoving the image into Timber’s face. Timber’s pupils shrunk as he looked at who Sunny was pointing at. “I’ve never seen that girl before in my life.” “Oh, really? Then, I suppose that you have also never been a lifeguard at the Canterlot Beach either,” the mulberry haired girl bitingly remarked, crossing her arms. Twilight’s eyes widened in realization. “You were cheating on me?! With Lemon Zest?!” “I did not cheat!” Timber shouted back. “There was no cheating involved!” He groaned, realizing that he just admitted to having met Lemon Zest. “Lemon Zest thought that he looked cute and started flirting with him,” Sunny informed Twilight. “He flirted back.” “It never went past that. I swear,” Timber pleaded. Then his eyes widened and he turned back to Twilight “Wait a minute. He blabbed to you, didn’t he?! That guitar playing loser told you about those twins from Hayton Central and their friends?! I swear, it was all a lie!” "His name is Flash. He didn’t tell me anything. And he is NOT a loser." she retorted, getting almost right in his face. Twilight felt her cheeks heat up and she sat back down. She had no idea why she had jumped to Flash's defense so quickly. "How do you even know them?" "I don’t!" Timber stammered. “Then why did you ask about people from Hayton?" snapped Sunny. "You also never mentioned to Lemon that you already had a girlfriend.” “It never came up in conversation!” Sunny brought her furious glare closer to Timber’s trembling eyes. “Well, considering that she wants to ask you out the next time that she sees you, you probably should have brought that up sooner.” “Well, tell her that I’m not interested,” Timber retorted. "Actually, if you want to go out with Lemon Zest, or any other girl, feel free to." Twilight said in an unusually calm manner "Because you and I are done." "What?!" Timber shrieked. “We’re done, and this relationship is over." She stood up and walked away "Just like this conversation.” "Twilight, wait!" But Twilight had already walked out the door with a determined facial expression. She was going to get some answers. “Good choice.” said Sunny quietly. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Flash was in his room searching the internet with a very similar expression on his face. Then something caught his attention, making his eyes widen. He clicked on whatever it was. His eyes scanned over the online item for a few seconds. “Bingo.” He hit print, went downstairs to the printer, and grabbed the paper that came out. He went back upstairs, found the twins on the deck, and showed them what he had found. “I think this is the article we’re looking for”. The headline read GIRL DISAPPEARS INTO THIN AIR and underneath it was a picture of three young teens. On the right was a girl who looked awfully similar to Starlight Glimmer, another pony from the other dimension who had visited briefly some time ago, except she had different clothes and pigtails. On the left was a boy with glasses, orange skin, messy orange hair, and a long blue coat. But Flash and the twins were most focused on the slightly older girl in the middle of the other two, who looked exactly like Sunset but with goth clothes and black eyeshadow. Flash and the twins gave each other a serious look and all nodded in unison. TO BE CONTINUED