so much for picard
After taking in the morning air, I decided to take another walk, greeting different
ponies on my travels. But I soon stopped dead in my tracks, as if in a trance.
I heard a voice, a voice I recognized and feared. For a moment I just assumed it was
my brain playing tricks on me. But then It clicked “hello, human” the voice said with
a chuckle “I see your finally in tuned to this world” the voice continued.
“John De Lancie?” I asked, “What the hell?”
“Who’s John De Lancie?” the voice asked,
“Q?” I waited for a response.
“Really now, human, I thought you were better educated than this” the voice spat out in sarcasm.
“Oh no, not you…” I finally succumbed to a fear which had been nibbling at the
corner of my mind for quite a while “Discord” the voice chuckled with glee upon
hearing its name. “Discord, at you service sir” the voice mocked.
“Get out of my head,” I ordered “or I’ll seal you in there myself” I continued, but the
voice knew it was an empty threat. “Fair enough, I was going to promise you a place
at my side after I take over” the voice seemingly faded.
“If you even think of trying again, I’ll make sure you wish for death”
I replied to an offering. Snapping out of it, I continued to walk, suddenly hearing Rarity call me.
“Heya, rarity” I said with a nervous smile, but the smile was soon switched to a goofy grin “wow, are these my new-”
“Yes, a little gift, for our new guardian” she smiled sweetly as a small blush crept
across my face. “I don’t know what to say my dear, except thank you” I grinned as I pulled her into a hug.
“That’s, quite alright dear, just let me put them in a bag for you to carry”
I watched as she did this. Picking the bag up by the handle, I gave her another quick hug as a thank you again.
Stepping out into the sunlight, I couldn’t help but smile, today is still a good day I thought to myself.
I decided to go back to the library; I required more information on discord, seemingly a master of puppets.
I took a glance outside for a moment; the stick I had attempted to levitate earlier was still in the same place. “Twilight, I need your help with something,” she looked at me, puzzled. “Could you teach me some magic? I may need it” I watched her face light up with excitement; She suddenly threw a load of books at me, while listing them off.
“Twilight, you do realize I can’t read equestrian” I deadpanned.
“Oh yeah” she sheepishly uttered, while rubbing the back of her head in thought.
“Hands, er, hooves on approach?” she stated rhetorically, noting my nodding.
“Now try again” she said, with a stressful tone. We had been out there for almost 4 hours now, and I still hadn’t managed to lift the branch. “I just can’t do it,” I glumly stated “I really don’t think it’s within my abilities, sure, I can fly but…” I stopped for a moment. And took off spontaneously, floating above Twilight.
“well, I can fly, lets see what other crazy stuff I can do”, I concentrated for a moment, A brilliant beam of light shot from my hands, akin to a Ki blast from some obscure random anime.
It was enough to leave a scorch mark on the ground and set the branch ablaze. “Whoops” I chuckled, stamping on the burning branch. “Looks like levitation is out, and incineration is in!” I chuckled, Twilight just rolled her eyes.
A sudden feeling of déjà vu crept upon me like a bad itch. The voice returned, sounding even smarmier than before.
“Are you sure you won’t accept my offer?” Discord cackled, but I was in luck,
“dude, you’re still encased in stone, what makes you think” the Draconequuis interrupted me.
“That’s just it, Human, the fact that you are here has tipped things in my favour” the disembodied voice retorted.
“So, what? You’re gonna free yourself now?” I said to him in a low growl, dripping with sarcasm.
I left a hoof being brought across my face “Snap out of it!” the feminine voice shouted.
“Twilight, thank fuck!” I shouted, I spotted the worry on her face. I took a quick glance around. “Why am I on the floor?” I rubbed my cheek “also thank you for snapping me out” I nodded, getting up. I mentioned Discord, and Twilight had started to freak out.
I needed to find a book. As I rummaged through the piles in the library, I heard the ramblings of a very worried twilight. “So if what you’ve said is true, then why hasn’t he tried anything?”
“Just send the message for pete’s sakes!” I didn’t mean to shout, but time was of the essence. “This is my entire fault,” I looked down, “but I suppose there’s no way around it now” I felt a hoof plonk down on my shoulder. “You forget you’ve got the elements of harmony on your side” she smiled. As I pulled her into a hug, I heard a loud belch. “Spike!” we both shouted, “jeez talk about ruining a Kodiak moment” I grumbled, meeting the gaze of a very confused twilight. “It’s a human thing, you wouldn’t understand” I chuckled once again, but considering the look on Spike’s face, I got serious. “What’s the message?” I asked, as Spike unravelled the letter.
“I think in Human terms, it would simply be OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT!” spike exclaimed. “Just read it out loud Spike” I face-palmed.
Dear Dave
From what you have just told me, in all fairness I should really had killed you in the first place, but alas, it is too late to go back on our arrangement.
As for the recent, shall we say, turn of events… I am at a loss of what to do.
If Discord does return, the elements of harmony will have to seal him in stone once again.
If all else fails, eliminate Discord.
If discord is either sealed in stone or eliminated, then you will be freed of our agreement and can freely live out your days as a resident of Ponyville.
Good luck
.
Princess Celestia
“Well, at least she respects the agreement” I sighed. Twilight sat there, stunned.
“e-eliminate?” she looked at me, stuttering, shivering.
“Twilight, I know what I’ve got to do in order to keep Ponyville…no…Equestria safe” I placed my hands on her shoulders. “If anyone dies, it will be Discord,” I looked a little bit puzzled for a moment
“couldn’t she just banish him to the moon or something?” Twilight shook her head, still shaken by the thought of killing in general.
“I am definitely going to regret not doing this sooner” what I did next was probably the most stupid, insane idiotic things I have ever done. But it stopped her shaking. “Wha, wha? Did you just?”
I nodded, with a small blush creeping across my face, betraying my stoic expression.
“Why?” she asked.
“Because you needed to calm down, you were getting worked over killing somebody that you forgot one thing,” she looked up at me for a moment. “I’m the one doing the killing,” I shut my eyes, taking a deep breath “I’ve gotten pretty good at hiding my emotions and feelings over the years, becoming cold and stoic whenever I needed to, sort of like a defence mechanism,” I pulled her close to me, “it just feels so wrong, ya know?” I continued.
“What do you mean?” she asked, expecting a reasonable, logical answer.
“I suppose I should tell you now” I had begun to explain why I am who I am.
I watched as her facial expressions went through the motions. “It was at that point in my life that I swore I wouldn’t let anybody else in, but as you can see my plan didn’t exactly work” I laughed half heartedly.
“Well in any case, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, you’re the only human here, it’s not your fault if you fell in love with a pony,” she stated,
“but why me? I’m not exactly the best pony; I wouldn’t know what to do”
“I could list the reasons if you want, but to be quite honest… I can’t really explain it,” I took a deep breath. “Its, so wrong… yet so right”
I pulled her closer, noticing a blush turning her face a crimson red.
“But, I highly doubt we should do anything,” I sighed “considering what events might occur which could change the situation” she could tell I was worried.
“I don’t care,” she smiled, as I was about to say something, I was instantly silenced by her returning my kiss, a simple act of unrequited love giving birth to real love.
Spike had re-entered the room “what the?” he sighed, “never mind, im going to see Rarity” as he walked out, you could hear a little smile crawl across the little dragon’s face. He was probably wondering how I did it, the little dragon had, from what he told me, tried everything to steal Rarity’s heart. I couldn’t help feel sorry for the poor guy.
Twilight and I had been sitting on the sofa in a warm embrace, her head resting on my chest, my head resting on hers. For the first time since I got here, I was genuinely happy. “Twilight, do you think I should help Spike with his ‘rare’ problem?”
She looked at me and gasped for a moment “by rare you mean” I nodded “then yes, I suppose you could” she smiled. She then kissed me on the cheek. She watched the blush and the big grin re-appear.
She suddenly shivered for a moment “you cold?” I asked. She simply nodded. I concentrated a small fraction of the energy I used earlier to start the fireplace.
She levitated the book titled Battle Royal to me. “Lets pick up from where we left off shall we?” I smiled. Eerily it was akin to reading a story to a child in some ways, I would read to her, and she’d ask me questions about what certain objects mentioned in the novel were. “The Okashima island lighthouse was old but durable. It faced north, its tower seventeen meters high…” I continued reading, noticing her smile was as wide as mine. “What’s volleyball?” she asked inquisitively.
“I think it’s game involving a ball, 2 teams and 2 goals either side of the field, im not quite sure, always sucked at sports,” I chuckled, “shall I carry on?”
I noticed she was beginning to yawn.
“Yes please” she smiled. So I continued the story.
As we reached chapter 63, I noticed she had fallen asleep on me.
I wasn’t complaining, Why would I?
Celestia would be so pissed off if she found out about this.
I don’t care, as long as Twilight’s happy, that’s good enough for me.
I had finally found my small measure of peace.
I fell asleep shortly after.