//------------------------------// // Lonely Generosity - Chapter 11 - Redirect // Story: Our Soul Friendships // by Motion Reflux //------------------------------// Redirect ___________ It was good that he got some new knowledge on a pony that is almost untouchable. The last piece of information he got from Soft Spoken was that only those of equal power could truly socialize with her and he remembered the dark purple unicorn stating that he was weak so he knew that making friends with her wouldn't be the smartest of ideas. He redirected his attention back towards the problem he has with Discovery and how he could get past her threat. At least it wasn't like the ordeal with an incredible yet underwhelming fight with a ghastly entity. All of his strength returned to him finally and he felt the aura around him move with its return so he hopped into the air and flew back to the mansion. _/One Brief Hour Later...\_ Motion Reflux walked out of the mansion with slight bruises and cuts but all around he was still fine; he jumped off the edge of the platform and knew that he was ready to face Discovery. Soaring and Dodging past damp colored pegasi and sky bridges he landed on the grand library platform and with the fluxuation of the space around him he knew that Discovery knows he's here. He walked into the library and saw that Discovery was already waiting for him behind the front desk. They both stood still for a moment and then she made the first move by saying, "I thought I told you to get lost." "You can't get rid of me that easily." he replied mockingly as he hovered closer to her. Her horn began to glow and spark with magical electricity and which then she held a spell that held tightly against Motion Reflux's neck. She angrily glared at him, "So I've given you life and you can't even handle a simple favor? You're like the epitome of a horrible friend!" He grinned, "More like a true friend, Discovery." he said and she threw him into a bookcase. Hard. He got up and stretched out his wings since the impact made them ache, "You don't even know what friendship is like, so who are you to judge?" he smirked as he stepped closer. Then she pushed him away with a wave of magical wind but the force only wrapped around him instead of forcing him away as she responded, "Are you calling me lonely? HUH? I have friends!" "No you don't, you have what you call aquaintances. By just helping somepony doesn't make you two immediate friends because friendship takes time and effort!" he shouted as he advanced towards her more. Her magic began to flow faster as she shot a sharp javelin beam towards Motion Reflux which he only slightly dodged as it scraped against his side painfully and he continued to step forward, slyly pressing the boundaries, "You're weak and not even as strong as I am." "WEAK?!" she shouted as she forced a repelling field around herself causing the blue pegasus to slide slowly backwards but it wasn't strong enough to stop him from advancing forwards. Then a yellow pegasus with a bright pink mane walked in past the doors, "So this is that other mare you were talking to in your dream?" I didn't even tell her it was her...! Swiftshock easily walked beside Motion Reflux as if the repelling field around Discovery didn't even affect her. Discovery smirked and let go of her magic as she was about to speak but Swiftshock quickly interjected, "I already know, Pseudo-Unicorn, he talks in his sleep so I heard every single thing." She already knew...?! Swiftshock turned to her lover and tried to mimick his voice as best she could as she said "You're not going to tell her... are you?" in a dramitic tone. Discovery was dumbfounded with her mouth gaping open at the fact that her plan had easily fallen apart and she finally said, "Y-You're bluffing!" but Swiftshock responded by saying, "Try me, oh wait..." she covered her lips slightly with a forehoof and giggled, "You can't~" Motion Reflux then interrupted and said, "Here's an easy explanation, Discovery, I told her the threat and she took it well." /\_A Hour Before..._/\ Motion Reflux entered the mansion and called out, "Hey Swiftshock are ya here?" and then she appeared past the dining room door with her hair all frazzled and in a mess as she said, "What is it, Ninny-colt?" "There's something I need to tell you and it might.. uh.. anger you slightly.." he said as he sat down in front of her and she gave off a confused expression. "Nothing you say would anger me, Fluxxy!~" she smiled, her hoof twiching and almost looking like it'd want to make contact with his face with force. He said, "It's about an o-" she interrupted him, "An old unrequited lover?" she said in an angry tone as her hoof gave a swift punch to his face and made him fall back. There was only slight blood coming out of his nose and mouth but it wasn't too much to worry about. "H-How?" he stuttered and she positioned herself on top of him and said, "Let's say that you like to speak every single sentence from your dreams whenever you sleep." He slapped his hoof onto his face in embarrassment as his cheeks glew a slight tinge of red and then he saw that she was weilding a carving knife in her mouth as well as sighting that her eyes were glowing a fiery red. "...AND WHEN WERE YOU EVER GOING TO TELL ME THIS? FLUXXY?" she shouted in a slightly obscure tone because of the knife she held in her mouth. She began to slice away at him but because it was in her mouth and that they were in an awkward position she missed many of them and only was able to cut him slightly around his body. A strong swing just missed his neck and he sighed in relief and then in protest he pushed her off with all of his strength and said, "I'd prefer not to get cut, Swift." They were both in fighting stances but then she dropped the knife and spread her wings; then she dashed towards him with a punch directed at him. He turned so that his side faced the aggressor and he took the blunt of the blow from there, falling onto and sliding across the ground and then hitting the wall on the other end of the foyer of the mansion. He got up and said, "I don't want to hurt you, Swift." She cried out in anger as she flew towards him again and even faster, this time with her right hindleg stretched out as if she were going to kick him hard. This time he dodged by sidestepping out of the way which got Swiftshock's hindleg to break through the get caught in the wall. "Calm..." he said to her as she tried to bite him when he got close but before the bite could contact him he stepped back. After a few minutes of heavy breathing and thrashing around trying to free herself her eyes began to dim from their red glow as she finally began to calm down from her hissy fit. He stuck around loyally until she was sane again and then he helped her out of the wall and said, "So... you 'kay now?" She nodded as she began to catch her breath; he picked her up on his back and carried her to the bedroom, laying her on the bed and pulling the cover over her before saying, "Get some rest now, I know that little skirmish took a lot out of you." He kissed her forehead and then left the room. Then he made his way through the foyer and then walked out of the mansion. /\_A Hour Later..._/\ Motion Reflux let out a small chuckle as he walked up closer to Discovery and said, "Is there anything that you're going to try now?" Discovery mumbled, "Nuclear Magic..." and then her eyes began to glow as radiant as the sun, her body hovering into the air as she spoke, "I've only done this against my one and only friend..." her mane and tail burst into a bright yellow fire as she continued, "...but now I'm going to use it on you both!" He recoiled slightly and was about to run but Swiftshock put a leg around him to stop him and she smirked, "Running so soon, Fluxxy?" and then Discovery smiled and said, "You will both die!" Motion Reflux shouted to Swiftshock, "She's going to kill us Swift! We gotta get out of here!" but she only shook her head and said, "Trust me Ninny-colt." She stood her ground and he hid behind her; then with a burst of magical fluxuative energies small explosions began forming around Discovery. The room began to slowly brighten a vivid and blinding white as Discovery roared with anger, her power uncontrollable. Swiftshock whispered silently to her lover, "It seems she's trying to stop but she can't." Motion Reflux tilted his head, his forehead covered with sweat from the amount of heat filling into the room. He crouched down and covered his head fearing that today might be his final moment. Then, with one final ripple in the universal aura Discovery let out a incredibly strong and radioactive blast wave of pure uncontrollable magical energy which engulfed the room as well as every pony within. An agonizing minute passed without effort as the room slowly dimmed, the lights broken and books scattered with some bookcases fallen onto the floor. Discovery had fallen, her body twiching as she lay helpless on the ground but believing that she had elimated the two pegasi that were there with her. A yellow pegasus walked over the fallen unicorn, "What a waste, old friend..." the pegasus said as she picked her up onto her back. The blue pegasus stood up from his cowardly position and perked his ear, "We're alive..?" he questioned as he felt around his face and chest with his forehooves while falling back into a sitting position and exclaiming in joy, "We are!" He looked over to the yellow pegasus, "Hey Swiftshock... How in Celestia's name did we survive?" he asked in a suspicious tone. "I'm not completely sure, Fluxxy, and most of it was just a gut feeling that we'd survive." she responded innocently and smiled. "A g-gut feeling?!" he shouted, "So you just pressed your luck on this dangerous situation?!" his eye twiched. Swiftshock giggled gently; he looked around her and noticed that she was carrying the almost lifeless unicorn named Discovery. "So... what's the situation with her?" he walked up and inspected the unconscious pony; she shoved him away lightly and said, "I feel something special within her like I felt for you except slightly less; For her it feels like she could be useful to us as a friend." A friend... he questioned himself as he had been trying to befriend this hostile unicorn for a few days now to no avail but maybe when she wakes up they could finally talk and altogther they can be friends. He thought to himself that it would be very much a great experience for Discovery because she's never been with or had real friends before. A redirected movement of the space and aura around them fled right into the body of Discovery and her consciousness returned. It was as if her own cells were living off the mystical auras around them and recycling them into more positive auras. Being near her felt much more different... Being near her before felt negative and displeasing... Being near her now feels joyful and happy... The unicorn woke up with a gasp and in a startle but she couldn't move her limbs when her mind awoke. "Good Morning, Lonely Missy" Swiftshock mocked her gently while poking the movement-impaired unicorn's sides after dropping her softly onto the ground. "Ha-Hey! Stop with the poking!" Discovery hissed as she used the final reserves of her magic to push Swiftshock away from herself and shouted, "How are you two not dead?!" Swiftshock rolled her eyes and responded, "Maybe we used some mystical magic!~" "Uugh... I give up..." said Discovery as she let her head fall back and she continued, "My thoughts about you were wrong, Motion." She closed her eyes; her body beginning to glisten softly and turn brighter as she told him, "I feel like there is a connection between us... like an old bond of friendship that was locked away from me this whole time... The same goes to your yellow pegasus friend because I have the same feelings of friendship with her as well now..." The room brightened and a spherical wave engulfed the room; everything slowly picked itself back up from the bookshelves magically moving back upright with the books organizing themselves into their respective shelves without any real magic being used. Discovery smiled for the first time in many years and she opened her eyes and stood up to finally say, "Your thoughts... Motion... the ones of the belief of friendship... I finally see it now and I finally realize that friendship is something that I need. My own thoughts had believed otherwise until this moment and I finally got to release my pent up anger in that one nuclear blast and then let in the flow of happiness back into my life..." She turned away and looked up, "I finally forgive my mother; my... creator; I finally can let old tales rest and think clearly without the haze of deceit from my cracked memories." she told them. Then she quickly turned back around and jumped towards Motion Reflux, wrapping her hooves around his neck and giving him a big hug, tears happily rolling down her cheeks and caressing her face with a loving touch. He returned the embrace and smiled; Swiftshock joined in a minute afterwards by awkwardly wrapping her hooves around the both of them, forming a shameless group hug. Another minute afterwards they finally let go of each other, smiling as they then had a small laugh together. Through one simple release of her old thoughts and memories was Discovery able to let some pony else into her life and finally she could feel happy again after years of loneliness and anti-sociality. Her loneliness gone... Her memories forgiven... She looked towards her new friends and gave them one final smile before letting them leave, after all she had just blasted them with a powerful magic so even if they didn't get harmed there could be side-effects. Motion Reflux and Swiftshock returned the smile and then left the library, the day coming to a close after a series of misfortunate events escalated into truly fortunate ones.