//------------------------------// // 62. The plan // Story: Kill Me Now // by Golden Script //------------------------------// “When we got there we met ten others, Rarity, Fluttershy, Vinyl Scratch, Octavia, and Ditzy Doo, with each of them was a stallion, Fedorian, Cloudy Skies, Presto, EQ, and Swift Strike.” I started my “Yeah I remember that part.” Fixinit told me. “But I wasn’t there.” Rainbow deadpanned. “Continuing on…” Fixinit prompted me. “Right, so when we got there we talked to them for a while, we just exchanged casual small talk, nothing important. Then a guard came to lead us to the princesses’ chamber. When we got to the door the guard asked us if we were ready, we nodded and entered.” “C’mon, get to the good stuff.” Rainbow moaned. “Be patient, I'm almost there.” I told her. “Just hurry.” “When we got in there princess Celestia was on her throne, she told me everything, that Dillon was turned into the six stallions in the room.” “Wait, Dillon was the six stallions?” Rainbow asked, Fixinit also looked a little confused. “Yes, he was split using a spell that was, to my knowledge, unfinished.” I explained. “Then somepony finished it and used it on him.” Rainbow concluded. “correct.” I confirmed “she went on to explain that she had them under a spell that would prevent the six from talking about it. she clarified that it was my decision who stayed in Equestria; Dillon or the stallions.” “You chose us. That’s why you think it’s your fault that Dillon is gone.” Fixinit said in realization, I nodded in response “it’s not your fault, she made you make that decision, if anything, it’s her fault!” “Celestia wouldn’t do that.” Rainbow stated coldly “I don’t believe it, this has to be some kind of a joke.” “You didn’t let me finish.” I said flatly. “Then please finish.” She encouraged. “She then revealed herself to be Discord.” Rainbow was shocked. “What? Like, she was Discord the entire time?” she clarified. “Yes, Rainbow, Discord made me kill him, not Celestia.” “Then that explains it! Celestias still a good ruler and we need to defeat Discord again, we need to go get the others.” She started to get up; I grabbed her tail with my magic. “Wait up, I'm still not done.” “Wait, there’s more?” she asked. “Yes, when the entire ordeal with Discord was done he told us that Celestia told him to do it.” “What? No! He’s probably holding her somewhere, trying to get us to turn against her. He’s lying!” “He wasn’t lying.” I was holding my temper in at this point. “And what tells you that?!” she yelled. “Because Celestia told me herself!” I yelled back, Rainbow backed off “yes, Princess Celestia told me that she ordered Discord to make me kill Dillon!” “N-no, it can't be true!” Rainbow stuttered, less confident than usual. “It is.” I said as I sat down defeated. “Why would she do that?” Rainbow asked. “I want to know the same thing; she said she would enlighten me in time.” Rainbow took a moment to think, and then seemed to come up with a conclusion. “This is all part of Discord’s plans.” “What?” I asked. “Yeah, he didn’t trick me or Applejack because we would know something was up. He didn’t do it to fluttershy because she was his only friend. He didn’t trick Rarity because she would probably just put him to work; then again so would Applejack, but still. He targeted you because he thought you were the weak link! The princess would never harm anything, least of all you.” she had a point, this could all be some super elaborate set up by the master of chaos himself! “Rainbow, you’re a genius!” I exclaimed as I ran up to my room. “Could you call my mom and tell her that?” she asked as she and Fixinit followed me. When I got to my room I started writing on pieces of parchment. They got up to me right as I was finishing the duplication spell; I was duplicating the letter because it would take too long to write a letter for each receiver. “Twi, what are you doing?” Fixinit asked. “Inviting all of our friends on an adventure.” I stated vaguely. “Who?” asked Rainbow. “The elements of harmony and the stallions and mares from the palace meeting.” I told them as I roused Spike. “Spike, can you send these for me?” he rolled over, grabbed the letters, and burnt them without a seconds hesitation. “So wait, we’re just going to march up to the castle gates and attack one of the most powerful beings on this planet that may or may not have the support of your princesses?” Fixinit tried to clarify. “Of course not, I thought you knew me better than that.” I nudged his shoulder. “Good, but what are we gonna do?” “First we’re going to hold a gathering for all of the ponies involved, we need to give them all of the information we have. Plus one or two of them might have more info we don’t have.” I described the first part of my plan. “We discuss our options and act accordingly.” “Great, I’ll come back tomorrow then.” Rainbow sped away, half out of excitement, half out of boredom. There was a minute of silence. “Well what do we do now?” Fixinit asked. “Now… we wait.” Another minute of silence, only this one was awkward. We looked around the room, at the clock, to my desk. He looked like he was in deep thought. I started wondering what he was talking about. “Twilight, I want to talk.” My stomach flipped, I knew what this was about, but I didn’t want to admit it. “What about?” I asked. “Us.” He stated simply. “What about us?” I asked, still acting clueless. “What are we?” he asked, backing me into a corner. I thought for a moment “we are… good friends.” His face fell just a little, I barely noticed. “with potential.” I added to lighten his mood a little, it sort of worked. “So… are we like… on hiatus or something?” he asked. “No, I just want to figure out what’s going on before I start or continue any relationships.” I tried to explain sheepishly. “Twilight, I need to know what you’re thinking.” He looked at me seriously; I knew there was no avoiding it now. “Fixinit… the truth is… I don’t know. I have obvious love for you, but I think that my mind does that to distract me from the issue at hoof. I have experienced this with silver, he distracted me from my loss of Dillon, even if he was a little late to the party. But I was still hurting then and now I'm hurting all the more. I think my mind wants to say I love you because it needs to distract itself from my loss of Dillon… again.” “So what does this mean for us?” he asked. “Until I figure out exactly what happened with Dillon, I don’t think we should see each other.” He took a sad nod and walked away, his head down in thought. When he got to the door he turned his head back towards me. “Twilight, I made a promise, and I will do everything in my power to keep it. I just want you to remember that I will never leave, no matter what goes down between us, I will stay.” I nodded and he left, shutting the door behind him. “I'm sorry.”