I woke up the next morning alone in bed. I looked around and found Twilights bedroom empty, other than me, of course. I got up and walked across the room to the door, glancing at the mirror as I passed. I looked how you would expect me to look just after waking up, messy hair and droopy eyes. I briefly considered brushing my hair or washing my face, just to wake up; then decided that it probably didn’t matter.
When I finally got downstairs, I noticed Twilight was sitting on the couch, her hair not looking quite right, and a nervous tick in her movements. Something was up.
“Twilight?” I asked, she didn’t respond.
As I listened, I noticed she seemed to be talking about something to someone.
“Twilight?” I called again, a little closer now.
She turned her head slowly and I saw the most horrifying thing I had seen up until then, from both my fake memory and my real memory. I wish not to go into detail about this thing I saw, let’s just leave it at this: I did not like it.
“Twilight, what-”
“If we utterly fail and Discord wins and the princesses are his puppets for all of eternity? I don’t know, what will happen then? I’ll probably get sent back to magic kindergarten or maybe I’ll be banished… or imprisoned… or imprisoned in the place that I was banished to! Hehehehehehehehe!” her voice was laced with madness; I was worried that I had lost her forever.
“Twilight, are you ok?” I knew the answer, but I wanted to see if she knew it too.
“Perfectly fine, why wouldn’t I be? I mean, we’re just about to go into a heavily armored castle with no plan or backup plan other than the elements of harmony and if that doesn’t work then the world is doomed!” her eye twitched a number of times while saying this.
“Twilight, I want you to calm down, I’m going to be right back. Just, stay here, don’t move, and try to calm down.” I walked back up the stairs and looked for a certain young purple dragon.
I found the young drake sleeping in his basket at Twilight’s bedside. I quickly nudged him awake and stole his blanket, this got his attention.
“What?” he asked in a sleep deprived fashion.
“I need your help.” I pleaded.
“What could you, the genius Fixinit, possibly want from a lowly baby dragon like me?” he asked in a sarcastic demeanor.
“Twilight’s bugging out and I don’t know why.” At this his eyes shot open, wide awake, and he got out of his basket-bed.
“Let’s go.” He said simply as he headed for the door.
Twilight was still sitting on the couch mumbling random scenarios of what might happen if we fail. Spike took one look at the insanity that was in the library and diagnosed the situation.
“Twi’s crazy.” I facehoofed.
“That’s obvious, how do we fix her?” he took another at the crazy pony on the couch and came to a new stunning conclusion.
“Twilight’s freaked out about what might happen if you guys fail your quest. My best guess is that you should probably tell her everything’s going to be alright and give her a warm cup of tea. We keep a package of her favorite kind in the pantry, far top shelf all the way in the back. If you want I can go make it while you talk her down.” I stared at him blankly.
“You- if- but- never mind, just go make the tea.” I sat next to Twilight on the couch.
As I sat down next to her she said “Hi Fixinit, which do you think is worse, magic kindergarten or imprisonment in exile?”
“Twilight, we’re going to be fine, we’re going to defeat discord and free the princesses. Now, I need you to give me the answer to the equation 20=2x-5y+4.” this was a method that my fake parents used to use on me when I was young and crying about something, they would distract my mind with something, usually math of some kind, and by the time I had come up with the answer I was calm again, if not they would ask me another question.
“y=0 and x=8.” I was stunned, that was faster than I had even done it myself; I quickly tried to think of another equation and came up empty hooved from the shock of it all.
“Um… what is… um…” she stopped me there, obviously seeing that I was struggling with something.
“Thanks Fixinit, I really needed that” she visibly looked calmer and more collected.
“anytime.” I said simply, still a little dumbfounded.
She got up and walked into the kitchen where I presume that she made breakfast.
I sat there for a minute longer, just checking her math and being stunned by the results. After I was content with the fact that Twilight Sparkle could compute fairly complicated algebra fairly quickly in her head, I followed her.
We had a normal breakfast… or as normal as a breakfast can be right after one talked the other out of hysteria.
“What now?” I asked Twilight, she always seemed organized and knew what to do next.
“I’m not sure,” that’s a first. “How does one prepare for a raid on Celestias’ castle?”
“I don’t know.” I sat on the couch and thought for a minute. “Twilight, we need to talk.”
“What about?”
“Us.” That one word was all it took for her to realize exactly what I meant.
“Fixinit, I don’t know…” she trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence.
“Twilight, you are the best thing to ever happen to me, and when I say me, I mean Fixinit, not Dillon or fake past Fixinit, but this one. I want you to remember that I will always be there for you, no matter what.”
“I know, you say that every time.”
“and I mean it every time.”
She whispered something under her breath and I could have sworn that she had said “and I believe you every time.”
“look, all I want is to be with you. I know, it seems a little cheesy or cliché or whatever, but I mean it, that’s all I want.” I looker her in the eyes, those beautiful violet orbs.
“I… I know.” She looked down and seemed to be thinking hard.
“Twilight…” she looked up, into my eyes.
“Fixinit… I think I’m in-” then the door opened.