Four months later
It was early on a Thursday morning. André and Rainbow Dash were lying on a cloud above Ponyville, enjoying rest and relaxation.
"There's nothing quite like napping on a cloud." André said without a care in the world, "Rainbow, this is truly…graceful."
She turned over to him, "Told ya. Sleeping on clouds is the best, right?"
He nodded with his eyes closed, "Yeah."
"You and Babe have been staying here for about a few months now." She brought up a new subject, "When are you going to find a house?"
André opened his eyes at her question, "I haven't even thought of that Rainbow." he looked over at her, "I certainly don't want to be a burden on Twilight."
"How about you crash with me?" she offered. Her own offer excited her, "Yeah! That could work, it'll be great! We could stay up late, watch movies, play games and do other fun stuff!"
André chuckled, "That sounds great but I will need to eat. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, Twilight and Spike seem to have my back on that."
"Well, I'm not much of a cook but I could learn. We could live together in Cloudsdale and it'll be a lot of fun!"
André looked at his Pegasus companion for a few seconds, "You'd do that, huh?" he was touched at the things she was willing to do for him, "As awesome as that sounds I can't live in Cloudsdale. Twilight would have to put a cloud walking spell on me daily. I don't think she has magic powerful enough to have me permanently walk on clouds."
"Right…" Rainbow said disappointedly.
"Thanks for the offer anyway Rainbow. I didn't know you'd do so much for me. You don't seem the type who'd be cooking."
Rainbow nudged André's arm, "You're my friend. I'd learn how to do a lot of stuff if it meant keeping my friends happy."
"Yo, Dré!"
André turned to his left and then to his right, he thought he heard someone call him, "Hm. I swore I heard someone call me."
Rainbow Dash heard it too. She looked over the cloud and saw Babe. He was with Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. "Somepony did call you. It's Babe and the others."
André looked over the cloud as well and waved to them, "Hey guys! What's up?" he called down to them.
"No time to talk!" Babe yelled to have his voice heard from the ground, "Princess Celestia wants to see us in Canterlot!"
"Really?" André asked.
Twilight nodded, "We're going to take the train and it'll be here in 20 minutes! Come on!"
André looked over to Rainbow Dash but she was already preparing to get back to the ground. Rainbow picked up André and flew him down to the ground. The group wasted no time and made their way toward the train station. The group was on time and managed to catch the first train to Canterlot.
Twilight sat in one of the train coaches, "Record time! I'm so glad we were able to catch this train. We wouldn't have wanted to keep the princess waiting."
"Meh, I'm sure she would've understood." Babe said before turning a lazy eye over to André, "Even if she didn't we would've told her it was André's fault."
"ME!?" André asked surprised.
"Yes. Hanging up in the clouds with Rainbow Dash, how would we have known you'd be up there?" he asked.
André already had his answer, "I asked Twilight. She performed a-"
"What were ya'll doing up there?" Babe cut him off with a new question, squinting his eyes at the two.
André placed his fist on his cheek, "Talking." He honestly answered with the truth.
"We believe you," he turned to Pinkie, "right Pinkie Pie?"
Pinkie just giggled, "Y-Yup." She cracked a laugh but concealed it, soon after both Babe and Pinkie Pie started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Rainbow asked the two.
Babe turned to Rainbow, "It's been months and you two still aren't saying anything?"
"It has been too long." Rarity joined, "Don't you think it's about time you tied the knot?"
André shook his head, "Why are you guys doing this to us?" he asked with a smile, "I already told you what was going."
Twilight pointed at the two, "It's more obvious than Spike's crush on Rarity."
Rainbow rolled her eyes, "You guys don't know what you're talking about." secretly getting into the conversation.
"Sure we do!" Pinkie happily stated, "Everypony should have somepony! Hearts and hooves day isn't that far away. You two should probably think about what you're going to do."
"No!" André and Rainbow Dash yelled out.
Babe sat back in his seat, "Through our experiences I actually supported you two." he openly admitted to the two.
"Babe, stop. Seriously, there's no way I could go for Rainbow Dash."
Rainbow nodded in agreement, "That's right. You tell him And-" she finally caught onto what he said and looked at him with a raised brow, "wait, what?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'd rather go for Applejack." André answered taking the other's by surprise.
Applejack was just as surprised as the other's, "M-ME?" she pointed to herself to make sure he was referring to the correct Pony.
"Yeah." André started to think, "Rainbow isn't exactly my type. Besides AJ is just awesome! Honest, hardworking, loveable!" each word he listed made Rainbow lower her head.
Babe put his fist to his chin, "Wow…y'know," he turned to Pinkie, "we've been so wrapped up in seeing Dré and Rainbow Dash together we didn't even think about AJ and hey, if Rainbow doesn't care then why should we continue to provoke?"
Pinkie agreed.
"Now let's provoke André and Applejack!" he stated with a grin, much to André's dismay.
The entire ride to Canterlot, to André, seemed like a teasing joyride. In truth he wasn't interested in going beyond friendship with his ponies friends, what they all had seemed perfect enough for him. But even so they all had a good laugh on the train. Things just couldn't be any better.
The gang arrived in Canterlot. They didn't haste in making their way straight to the Canterlot palace. They stood at the throne room's door.
"I wonder what it's about." Babe knocked on the large doors.
Twilight stood beside Babe as he knocked, "She did say it was urgent business so I guess it's a good thing we managed to get here in time."
"Yeah but urgent business?" he asked in concern, "I hope everything's alright."
André thought of the many reasons why this was urgent, "I swear…Discord better not have been freed again." He hoped, not wanting to cross paths with the chaotic being anytime soon.
Babe huffed at André, "Even if he was he's not a threat, if he is back we'll kick his-" The throne room doors began to slowly open. Their sudden opening stopped Babe from finishing his sentence, thankfully.
Inside Princess Celestia and Luna were patiently waiting for them. They all entered the room and approached the princesses, the mane6 and André bowed to them.
Babe looked down at his friend's and then to the princesses, "What's up princesses?" he plainly asked without bowing.
"Babe!" Twilight forcibly pulled him to his knees to bow like the others, "I'm sorry about that." She chuckled.
Princess Celestia smiled, "It's alright. You may all rise."
They all do so, including Babe who fixed his shirt upon standing.
"Is everything alright?" Twilight asked, wanting to get to the news right away to ensure everything was fine.
Celestia nodded, "Yes. Everything's fine. We've called you all here for big news, especially for André and Babe."
"Cool." André said while looking at Babe with a smile.
Babe placed his hands in his pockets, "I like good news when it relates to me. What's the business about?"
"Over the course of the months we've looked into our studies and we managed to find something." Celestia started.
"It's a way for you both to return home." Luna pretty much wrapped up.
André's eyes slightly widened, "…What?"
Babe slowly placed his hand on the back of his neck, "Oh…"
Silence fell upon the room. The mane6 were of course happy about this but they were obviously sad and shocked at the same time. They didn't want the two to leave.
"You will both be travelling through space and time. You'll be returned to the day when you first arrived however, there's a catch." Celestia explained in detail.
"A catch?" asked André.
Luna turned to Celestia and Celestia's smile turned to a frown, she didn't want to tell them the catch. Luna looked at the two, "Once you return Twilight wouldn't have performed the spell that enabled her to summon you both here. Time, space and history will be altered…" the hurt continued for the group, "your meeting would've never happened. You wouldn't have met and your ties to each other would not exist." Luna finished in a tone of minor sadness.
The explanation struck the ponies hearts with a devastating blow. How could it have never happened? Everything they've gone through up to this point. It couldn't have just been all for nothing. Twilight and the others wanted to keep their friends, experiences and the memories with them forever.
The two boys didn't know what to say.
Twilight looked down at her shadow in disbelief, "Everything….would've been for nothing. How could that be?" her voice slightly rose.
"We don't want to forget André and Babe!" Pinkie sadly stated aloud, unable to control her tone, "They're our friends!"
Rarity stepped ahead, "We've been through so much, it can't end like this!"
"There's gotta be another way!" Applejack exclaimed.
Princess Celestia shook her regrettably, "I'm sorry but this is the only way. It's the only thing that can restore the balances between our worlds. However, we'll give you a choice." Directly referring to the Humans, "We know how much Twilight and the others mean to you both."
"You can return home or you could stay here in Equestria with them." Luna gave them their choices, "But the choice is up to you."
André remained silent as well as Babe but a choice had to be made.
"…We can't."
The six Ponies were hurt by Babe's rather straight forward and bland statement.
"We have family and friends back at home." André said lowly, "It's been months since we last seen them…they must be worried sick. We can't leave them worried forever." He turned to the group to face them.
Rainbow flew up to the two, "S-So you're just going to leave? Just like that…?"
André placed his hands on her shoulders and backed her up calmly, "We don't want to leave, trust us. But we can't leave things as they are back on the other side. We have to set things right on both worlds and-"
"Who cares how both worlds are!?" Twilight yelled, "Please don't leave…you're the greatest friends we've ever had….we don't want that to go away…" Twilight couldn't help but start to cry.
It wasn't just Twilight though. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rarity all let out tears of sadness. The sight of all of them crying made the two boys sad as well. Nobody wanted this.
André couldn't watch them cry, if they cried now he eventually would too, "Guys, please, don't make this any harder than it already is." He wanted to look away but it seemed impossible, "You'll forget us but….the memories themselves will always be there. Just keep a strong heart. We'll be in your hearts. Just in the deepest parts that'll be hard to reach."
Babe looked at him for a moment but shook his head afterwards, "Man. That was lame."
André didn't feel like replying.
"I'm not the sappy type but I swear to you all…one day, we'll see each other again." Babe smiled, "André and I will be seeing you again, even if it's not in person." referring to the future seasons of Friendship is Magic.
The others didn't know what to feel. No matter what any of them said it wouldn't make them feel any better however they knew where they were coming from in the situation.
Celestia, herself, wasn't happy either, "We'll perform the spell now…it may take a while for the spell to effect all of Equestria but it will restore everything and everypony back to the way they were before you two arrived."
"We understand." Babe turned to the two co-rulers.
Celestia tried fighting her own emotions back as well, "We're sorry it had to be this way." She sincerely apologized for the unfairness of their only way back.
"Things need to go back to the way they were." Babe said, "We probably had no right interfering with anypony here."
Princess Celestia and Luna knew what Babe meant and they were even saddened by what had to be done. The two princesses combined their magical powers to perform the time-space spell. Their power combined was enough to change space and time.
Light began spreading from the two. The light was expanding in a small dome like matter. Over time it expanded more and more. The light was expanding slowly but it made progress.
"It's been good hanging out with you." Babe turned back to the mane6, "It's kinda sad that it has to end like this."
They didn't know how to respond to Babe's farewell. He turned to the light and walked into it, shielding his eyes with his hand.
"We're all next." Twilight said trying to stop her crying, "Once we enter this light our memories will fade away…"
Fluttershy kept sniffing, "…If André and Babe believe it's the right way to go then let's believe in them." despite her words she was actually against everything that was happening.
"…Right." Applejack wiped her eyes.
André just looked at the approaching light, it seemed like yesterday he was falling out of the sky and into his dream world, "Well. Guess we're up then, huh?" he asked the group.
Pinkie's eyes were closed hoping she could hide her tears but they were too strong to fight back for her, she only agreed to André's question by nodding slowly.
He looked back at them with water in his eyes as well, "It's been sweet." As he looked at them with the light touching his back the first tear rolled down his cheek and then the second, "I'll treasure this always." he forced his smile gratefully.
"No matter where you are, we'll always be with you…" Twilight muttered to him.
The light inched closer and closer to the mane6 and slowly took André in. They all closed their eyes and were ready to be taken away by the light.
"Thanks guys…"
August 22, 2012
In a small house in Philadelphia on a rainy day five teens sat in a room playing video games at the back of the house. There were three T.V's but only two of them were being used.
One T.V was connected to an Xbox 360 and on the other the PlayStation3 was connected. Two boys were on the 360 and two others were on the PS3 and the last boy was sitting on the bed occupying his laptop.
The two guys who were on the 360 were Marcus and Khalil and on the PS3 were Denvor and André. A name from Denvor was called "Babe". The boy on his laptop looked up to see who called him.
"What's up?" Babe asked.
The game was put on pause. Denvor's attention was on Babe, whom he thought was bored. "Are you alright?"
Babe rubbed his tired eyes before replying, "Yeah, I'm cool. I was just checking facebook."
"You want to play BlazBlue with us?" Denvor offered.
André stood up and stretched, "I'm not playing anymore. I'm done."
"You're leaving?" Denvor questioned, "What time is it?"
"Yes, it's 1:00AM"
Khalil overheard the time and decided it was best to leave as well. "It's that late already? Guess I should head home too."
"Since those two are leaving, you all might as well go. Besides I'm tired and I've got class in the morning." Babe lazily spoke out as he got off of his bed and slightly yawned.
The boys got up and were getting ready to leave. Denvor ejected the BlazBlue game from the PlayStation3 and placed the disc inside the Continuum Shift case.
He placed the game inside his hoodies pocket. It was just the right size for holding the game's case. After helping clean and straightening up the room André, Denvor, Khalil and Marcus headed for the front door, Babe walking behind them.
André felt his stomach growling, he hadn't eaten all day.
"Hey, Babe, can I have a swiss roll?"
Babe raised an eyebrow and lightly smiled, "Sure. Just get money and go to the store."
"Never mind…" André was a bit annoyed at Babe's rather sarcastic remark. Hearing André's response only made Babe laugh.
After giving their goodbyes for the day Babe closed the doors behind them and locked up. Now that he thought about it the day went by rather quickly.
He went back to his room and turned off the two T.V's. He sat back on his bed and finished up the last few things he had to do on his laptop before closing it and placing it in his book bag. He turned off his room light and jumped back onto his bed.
"We'll be by you, always. Friends, till the end." Six familiar voices said.
Babe opened his eyes and looked around the room. He could've sworn he heard someone talking to him but it must've just been his imagination as there was no one around. He didn't pay it any mind and just closed his eyes, slowly drifting off to sleep.
In Ponyville Twilight was up and about the next morning with Spike.
"Ok. I've just learned a brand new spell Spike. I wonder what I'll summon!" she said enthusiastically.
Spike stood nearby, "Twilight, something tells me something bad will happen."
Twilight rolled her eyes and looked back at her assistant, "Oh come on Spike, where's your sense of adventure?"
Spike thought for a second, "…I dunno. I'm not even sure where it came from." he shrugged it off as nothing and gave Twilight a positive thumb up.
Twilight's horn began to glow in its purple aura. In the midst of performing the spell fierce sparks were emitting from her horn. Before she could attempt her spell she suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Spike asked.
Twilight didn't reply.
He tapped her leg, "Twilight?"
She looked up at the sky, "…Something's telling me that I shouldn't use the spell anymore. Who knows what I'll summon?" she looked at Spike, "What if I summon an Ursa? I certainly don't want any harm coming to anypony in Ponyville."
"Yikes!" Spike yelped, "T-T-That's a good point, maybe we shouldn't try it after all." he said reconsidering.
Twilight nodded, "...Yeah. At least until I'm sure that I've mastered it but that probably won't be for a LONG time."
"Knowing your magic I doubt that." Spike complimented, "Let's head back into town. We promised to model for Rarity, remember?"
Twilight chuckled, "Trust me. I remember."
Spike and Twilight started making their way back for Ponyville to meet up with their friends. As they're walking a gently breeze blew by.
Twilight stopped and turned back, "Huh?"
Spike stopped after he saw Twilight looking back, "You ok?" he asked.
"Didn't you hear that?"
Spike looked around, "Hear what? I didn't hear anything."
Twilight turned back to Spike, "Somepony was saying something to me."
"Who?" Spike asked, noticing there wasn't another soul to be found, "It's only us out here. It must've just been the wind."
"...Of course. Hm, but it sounded so familiar."
Twilight smiled with a feeling of strange nostalgia. She shook it off and continued on her way back to Ponyville with Spike.
My little Pony
Uncommon Connection
The End