//------------------------------// // 58. Goodbye // Story: Kill Me Now // by Golden Script //------------------------------// We all nod to the guard and he nods to the guards at the door, the door guards open said doors and our guide guard walks in the room, we follow him. He announces our names to the princess one by one. When I first saw the princess she was watching each of us in turn as the guard called our names. He ended with me, yelling “Twilight Sparkle!” Then backing away and out, the doors shut and we were alone with the princess, save for the two guards at the base of her throne. “Hello, my little ponies.” She said in her regal voice. We all bowed to her and said “hello, princess.” At the same time. “Now, I'm sure you are all wondering why I called each of you here.” We all nodded. Ditzy yelled out “will there be muffins?!” we all gave her a short glare, but the princess lightly chuckled. “If you want I can have the cooks make you a batch.” She said while Ditzy beamed with joy. “Yes please.” She said politely. “Um, if we may get on with the show, I would like to know why we were called here, if not for what each of us was told.” Rarity said with a confused look. “You were called here because Twilight wants Dillon back.” Everypony in the room looked at me “isn’t that right, Twilight.” “Y-yes it is, but I don’t see why everypony had to be here for it.” I started to blush and shrink. “They all have to be here because they each have a piece of Dillon.” Her face didn’t change at all. I looked back to the rest of the ponies in the room and wondered what the princess was talking about. Then I started to think about what it literally meant. Vinyl could have a leg while Octavia could have the other, Fluttershy and Ditzy might have his arms, Rarity would have his body and I have his head. I pushed the thought out of my mind as fast as possible. Then I turned my attention back to the princess. “What do you mean, princess?” she gave an evil smile. “Come on up, boys!” she yelled in a less regal tone. All of the stallions in the room looked up at the princess, they started walking up to the front. We were astonished. “Guys, what is this?” Vinyl asked. The princess responded “it has come to my attention that you have started to figure it out.” She looked at Octavia and Vinyl, so did I. “The split pony theory.” All three of us said at once. “Yes, you were right. But I couldn’t just split him three ways; I had to split him six ways. He had six minds in his head and if I put two in each then he might seem a bit suspicions.” She looked down at the stallions “isn’t that right boys?” They stayed silent. “Oh, that pesky speech spell.” She stomped her hoof and there was a spark of magic around the stallions’ heads “you see, I couldn’t have them blabbing about it to you girls, so I had them sealed up so that if they ever tried to talk about it the words just wouldn’t come out.” her voice got progressively less elegant. "I'll ask again, isn't that right boys?" Fixinit seemed ashamed, he looked to me “yes, we are Dillon.” he confirmed. “Yes, and let me fix his appearance.” She stomped again and there was a giant flash of light. When the light died down we looked, there, where the six stallions once were, was Dillon. We were all stunned. We stared at him. He turned around and looked at me. “Twilight, I'm so sorry I couldn’t tell you.” He ran to me and gave me a hug “I would never leave you. never.” He hugged me while I stood there motionless. “What?” I was dumbstruck, Dillon had been gone for the past three weeks, but part of him has lived in my house for the last few days of that time. I turned my head back to the other mares; they all were just like me, speechless. Then Vinyl spoke up. “Bring him back.” She said. “What?” Celestia asked in an overly confused way. “Bring Presto BACK!!” she yelled and stepped towards Celestia. “Well that’s not your choice, Twilight wants Dillon back and that is exactly what I have given her. It’s her choice if Dillon stays or if the stallions return.” Everypony looked back to me again. “Twilight, tell her to bring Fedorian and the others back!” Rarity said urgently; Dillon was still hugging me, he seemed to be frozen because he didn’t respond or move. “I-I-I” I didn’t know what to do, if I brought the stallions back I would lose Dillon, if I kept Dillon the other mares would probably hate me forever. “What is it, Twilight? Which do you choose?” Celestias voice was different now, it was no longer regal, it was now a voice I found very familiar, I had defeated this voice a couple of times before. “DISCORD!!” I yelled, this monster was the cause of misery all throughout Equestria. “Yes, it is I, Discord, here to cause chaos and wreak havoc.” Celestia stomped a hoof and turned into the familiar being known as Discord, he had the body parts of many different animals and bright yellow eyes. We all heard Fluttershy gasp in obvious horror “what happened? I thought you were better now.” I remembered back to when Fluttershy supposedly reformed Discord. “Yeah, no. my daddy always told me I was a great actor.” He took a dramatic pose “now pick, Twilight.” “I want to talk to him.” I said. “What?” asked Discord. “I said I want to talk to Dillon.” “Ok, but choose wisely.” He snapped and Dillon released me from the hug. “Dillon.” “Yeah, Twilight?” “You were split into six other stallions, five of those stallions fell in love with the mares behind me; I have to ask you, would you be willing to sacrifice your own life for six others?” I started to tear up just to the thought of losing him. “Sacrifice?” he asked. “If they come back, I’ll lose you forever.” I explained to him, he smiled. “We never left.” I looked up to his smiling face. “What?” he let go of my shoulders and walked over to Rarity and put his English accent on. “my dear Rarity, I want you to know that Sweetie Bell had a salad, some carrots, strawberries and a juice box for lunch yesterday, and I thought last night was amazing.” He winked at the now blushing mare, and then walked over to Octavia, still with the accent. “Practice still continuing at 4:30 in the park under the big tree tomorrow?” she nodded; he approached Fluttershy, lost the accent and got the spring waterfall voice. “I learned that Angel Bunny likes his carrots cut a half inch shorter than you’ve had them.” She looked down a little; he then walked to Ditzy and got Swifts voice. He then recited a muffin recipe from memory and she became overjoyed “you remembered!” she clapped her hooves together; he then walked over to Vinyl in a laid back way. "Vinyl, I was messing with your setup one day when you were out and found that you could amplify the subwoofers if you send their signal directly from the turntables." Then he knelt in front of me again. “You see? We were always here, just not all the time.” I understood now. “So what do I do?” I looked up to him. “Get the stallions back, I’ll be fine.” He assured me with a smile. “Ok,” I turned to Discord “I’ve made my decision.” He had fallen asleep and now woke up. “Really? Took you long enough.” He got out of Celestias throne and walked over “what is it?” “I want the stallions back.” “So you would rather have those strangers than the man you loved?" “No, I prefer the part of him that I loved.” “Fine, but you do know it will be Fixinit, not Dillon. He will not remember anything that Dillon has ever done; he will lose all memory of Dillon, save the parts you have told him.” Realization hit me, if he didn’t have Dillon’s memories then I would have to start again, I looked back to the mares behind me, and then back to Discord. “I-I still choose the stallions.” I tell him. “Fine, your choice, but Dillon will be gone forever.” “I know.” I looked at my hooves. “Twilight.” Dillon’s voice came to me. “Yeah?” he lifted my chin and gave me a loving kiss. “I love you, always remember that, and give Fixinit a chance.” He gave me a joking smile. “I will, but I’ll miss you.” “I’ll live on in here” he poked my chest lightly. I looked down at his finger, then back up to him. Then I lunged at him and gave him the biggest, most passionate kiss I had ever experienced. He kissed back. Discord snapped and Dillon changed back to the six stallions. I fell to the ground crying. Dillon was gone.