“Kronz”
“W-wait! No!” My older brother said in a tired-panicky voice. He then pushed Rainbow Dash off of him though, prompting the pegasus to groan as she recovered her consciousness. “T-that wasn't what it looked like!” Jay said as soon as he stood up.
I gave him a mischievous grin as I hit the send button. After I saw that the photo was successfully sent, I brought my phone back in my pocket. I was about to say something when Claire quickly threw herself towards my bro and hugged him. The look on Jay's face made me want to steal a photo again, but I guess...my memory will be good enough to save that one.
“You all right?” I asked as soon as I got near Rainbow Dash, who was rubbing her head with a hoof. I knelt down so she wouldn't have to tilt her head up when she looks at me.
Rainbow whined about something, but I couldn't really understand what she just said. She then regarded me with a confused frown, and let out a series of horse whines. I think she understood my expression, so she stopped and gave herself a facehoof.
With a hoof, she pointed at the couple-to-be, and then she pointed at herself. She then stood on all four, and jogged—er, trot in place.
“...what?”
Rainbow growled as she rolled her eyes. She sat down in front of me with a cold glare. She pointed at Jay, and then flailed her two fore hooves in a circular motion, and then she pointed at herself.
“...Jay was swirling around you?”
Rainbow groaned and was about to do another facehoof when my bro spoke up.
“I think Rainbow's asking if I am the guy who transforms into a horse...”
Rainbow rolled her eyes, but nodded with a sigh. She then looked at Jay with questioning eyes.
“Let's head inside,” Claire spoke as she stared at the heavens.
“I wish I could but,” Jay said, making us regard him with confusion, “I need to get back to the island...”
“Jay, listen,” Claire spoke, “I'm glad—we're all glad to see you again but...”
“Look, I need to get back,” Jay turned his back on us. He stared at the direction of the island. “I left my phone there. I need to contact Spike...”
“That's not a problem,” I said as I stood up. Bro turned to me and gave me a confused look. “I hacked it so I could connect to your phone.”
He blinked, and then he smiled. “Still a nerd, huh?”
“Shut up,” I smiled as I approached him. I was about to give him a playful punch to his shoulder, but he suddenly wrapped his arms around me, giving me a tight hug.
“I miss you bro...” he whispered.
“I was...expecting this kinds...of hugs...from Pinkie...y'know...”
“He did WHAT!?” Jay exclaimed while the four of us were walking up the stairs.
Aside from the four of us, no one else seems to be inside this apartment building. Now that I think about it, I don't remember that we were getting evacuated. The police, or whoever was in charge of the evacuation, sure did a lousy job.
That, or maybe the area was already evacuated when we arrive here after we got off from the helicopter.
“Kronz...” Jay spoke as we got to the floor where Claire's apartment room is. “Y-you're kidding, right?” I turned and I was about to reply, but he wasn't done with his rant yet. “I-I mean, yeah, Xilfer might do something like that, but I never would have thought that he would actually do it! And Claire's sister, of all people!”
I noticed Claire's downcast expression as she opened her apartment's door. She went inside without saying a word. I stopped outside, and gestured to Rainbow to go in and to leave the two of us for a while. She looked at us for a while before she let out a sigh and went inside. Her ears drooped. I wonder why.
I took a breath before I faced my bro. He was having a lot of emotions, and he's trying to control each one. I flashed him a weak smile before I told him about what I know.
“Xilfer kidnapped Claire's sister to get even with her father, since he and his group where the ones behind the chaos happening in the island. To get even, because Claire's dad ‘somehow’ took you away from us, and he took our home away, so Xilfer took her sister to get even.”
He blinked. He then tsk-ed as he rubbed his head. “Darn it...” he then looked at me. “You got his number, right?” I nodded, and he nodded. “Your phone, now...”
While Jay was busy texting Xilfer, Claire was fixing us something to eat. We haven't eating anything since we decided to investigate Mount Comet. Kinda strange that I'm not hungry. Meh, I guess I'm used to it.
Jay was seated on the sofa, and beside him was Rainbow Dash, curiously staring at my phone. It's kinda cute to see the two of them together. It also strangely reminds me of Pokémon. Hey, who knows, maybe a human will be given a pony as his partner. I can dream, right? That's the main theme of my game that I'm secretly developing. I'm not yet close of releasing an alpha or beta though...
“This is called a cellphone...” My bro explained to Rainbow as I turned to my laptop. I opened my browser and clicked on the email tab. I needed to talk to Spike. “Oh yeah, before that,” Jay spoke as a helicopters flew above us, “Rainbow, how did you end up here, anyway?”
“She came through the window...” I replied. I doubted that Rainbow could answer that question.
“I...see... But that's not what I meant...” There was a small pause. Ah, now I knew what my bro wanted to know. “Rainbow, I don't know if Scootaloo had told you this, but when you first met me, I was an earth pony, right?” Another pause. Maybe my bro waited for Rainbow's nod. “I don't know if she told you this, but back then, I kinda told them that I was from another world.” Another pause. “Y-yeah, this is my world. My home world, where humans like myself dominate the world. I don't really know everything yet, but from what I know, there are two worlds: yours and mine.”
I blinked. Something about how my bro and his questions made me think of something... I slowly turned to him and stared at the two of them with a confused look. Jay looked at me, and gave me a smile before staring back at the pegasus.
“Do you remember how you got here?”
Rainbow brought a hoof to her chin. She was probably thinking about it. Huh, actually, Claire and I also didn't ask her how she got here, and why she went through the window. Was she chasing something?
Minutes later, and Rainbow let out a sigh as she slowly shook her head.
Jay frowned. “I...see...”
That would have been a pretty useful information. Maybe, just maybe, there's another portal that Rainbow went through that isn't located in the island.
I'll trouble with that later. “Bro, email's ready...”
Jay looked at me and arched an eyebrow. “You're exchanging emails with Spike?”
“Well, yeah.” I nodded. “I hacked our mobile service provider.” His eyes twitched. “I only hacked your connection to connect to my email!” He blinked and tilted his head to the side in confusion. “You don't get it, do you...?” He chuckled nervously. I sighed.
“Anyway,” Jay spoke, “tel—or rather, ask him if he got the Crystal Heart already.”
I nodded as I typed the message.
“Anyway, Rainbow,” I heard Jay talking to the pegasus, “the last time I saw you was when you created that Sonic Rainboom to counter Twilight's mana cannon.”
I blinked as my fingers froze in the air. And there was a loud clang-noise from the kitchen. I looked at them, and Rainbow was eagerly listening. I saw Claire poking her head from the kitchen on the corner of my eye. Jay looked at us, and sighed.
“I think I remember telling you guys that the unicorns and pegasi were on war against each other...” Jay then faced the pegasus. “It's a long story, Dash, but to make things short and precise, Spike and I defeated Twilight, we found out that Discord's spirit was inside Twilight's body, and the body I was using as Gold Blitz was Discord's cursed body. That voice I kept hearing in my head back then was Twilight's spirit. Anyway, after a quick soul-swap spell from Celestia, Twilight was back to normal and the war was finally over.”
There was a weird silence in the apartment. Not really quiet though, not with all the explosions and other chaos happening outside.
Rainbow then broke the silence by blowing raspberries in the air and then she fell on the sofa on her back while laughing hard.