//------------------------------// // Epilogue : The End is only the Beginning // Story: Macintosh and Dolphin - The Switch // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Macintosh and Dolphin – The Switch Epilogue : The End is only the Beginning... A clear winters day with snow falling over the land, Michelle stood at the window looking out at the New Town Apple Orchard that she owned, it was hard enough owning it now but losing her eldest son was the hardest thing, it been only a week since he was truly gone and it was hitting her and the family hard, the winter season was upon them and Christmas was only a few weeks away... She watched the lorry pull up at the warehouse and Nigel getting out of it closing the large doors up before moving to the house. Hazel stood with her by the window “Here you go mum” Michelle took the cup of tea with a sigh “Thank you Hazel... it just had knowing his gone... he was so sure of what he did was the right thing...” she look to the photo when Big Macintosh was in his body and dressed up as Big Mac fursuit and all, winning the lottery was something but that suit sitting on the rack in his room made her feel sad every time entering it... “Who would of though I be missing Big Macintosh as much as I missing Wayne right now...” she picked up the picture seeing that Hazel was in a Applejack fursuit and Nigel not looking to happy being in the picture “Yeah and Nigel in his ninja outfit looking not too happy posing with two people dressed up as ponies” Hazel smiled putting a hand on the picture “I am going to miss that red pony too... he might of pretended to be Wayne but he was still a big brother to me...” Nigel came into the living room “Sorry I'm late the snow really coming down out there, the gritters are out but I almost lost the rig a few times on the way home” “It fine Nigel, we just thinking about Wayne and Big Mac” Michelle sat down on the sofa. Nigel put his keys down looking to them “It not been the same since either them around... I was mad at first with Big Mac pretending to be my brother but then I knew why and that weird place...” “I know” Michelle drunk some of her tea then look to the window “We just have to move on and remember that he would like us to go on” Nigel thought about it then look to Hazel “Haz...” “Yeah?” “How about for the Christmas Party we dress up in those fursuits, for Wayne and Big Mac?” “For family huh?” Hazel smirked “Yeah for family” Nigel said and gave her a hug as she started to cry into him and Michelle joined the hug. Michelle whispers to them both “For family... Apples and Dolphins...” London, unknown location... The base was being packed away, all the computers being rolled out and the last checks going through at the desk by the general, he saw almost emptiness in the room as the project was closed down. “Matthew sometimes trying to understand something is best not to” he turn to the Queen looking out the window to the same room. “I believe this project would help the country and it did, it opened our eyes to the power of magic... the magic that brings harmony” Elizabeth turn to him “Yes your highness it does... but it sad to say that this had to come to a end...” he stood by her. “How is your husband?” “He well” she replied with a soft smile patting him on the shoulder “General keep up the good work and remember sometimes it more simpler to let things go” “Indeed it is” he watch her leave with two red coat guards walking by her. “But sometimes end is just a beginning of a new” he went to the door looking around the office once more before turning the light off “X-19 is over but there still a lot of numbers to go” he smirked walking out the life, pushing the button with the door closing and all lights going out. Sweet Apple Acres... Big Macintosh sat ideal on his own in the field just north of the apple trees staring out to the sunset that was setting to the west, he haven't really been himself since the events that took place a week ago, it was good to be home and able to do what he usually use to for what he done in life but it had been not only hard hit on him but on the others of the Apple family in Sweet Apples Acres... Granny Smith trots slowly up to Big Macintosh seeing him sitting there calmly looking to the evening sky as the stars started to rise. “Ah thought y'all be here” he turn to her. “Ya thinking about him aren't y'all?” “Eeyup...” “Ya have something that no pony would ever had, ya lived the life of one other while he lived y'all life, it a special bond that bring families together a bond that made ya both brothers” Granny Smith said sitting by him with a grin. “Ah gain a grandson even for the briefest of times” “Eeyup” Applejack and Applebloom came up to them “It is because of ya Big Macintosh that we sit together moaning a pony that became larger in life, ya helped him and his family more then any pony could dream of, it not always about how ya sister has but what we all do” “That is true, ah might be the element of honesty but what ya did and he did we never could of done... ya two are mah brothers and he will be missed and the choice he made even crazy was the one in his heart” Applejack sat by her big brother putting her head against his. “Remembering him will keep him alive just like own parents” “Eeyup like Applejack said, ya both are amazing and keeping him in our hearts will always be there as a Apple should always be” Applebloom sat in front of the large red stallion as they watch the stars start to shine and one big one caught their eyes as more appear to create a whole new consolation, one shaped of a dolphin “Big brother ya seeing that!” “Eeyup ah am little sis... Princess Luna making sure he never forgotten and we all remember by staring at this set of stars at night... two families parted from reality but bonded by family forever” Big Macintosh said to them in a calm and gentle voice. “One thing bothers me though...” “What would that be Big Macintosh?” Granny Smith turn to him. “Why did they allow themselves to end their realm? They had so much power” “Big Mac sometimes it not about power but what in ya heart and they felt it when we all was there, we changed their well being and made them a better pony then they thought possible” Applejack said still looking to the stars. Big Macintosh closed his eyes with a whisper “He be surely missed...” “That he will Big Macintosh that he will” Granny Said softly to her grandson. “And at the end he is a Apple to the core” they all carried on to watch the sky as two shooting stars streak across the sky... From a distance four ponies stood together watching the apple family they look to each other three brothers and a sister all silently gazing at each other and looking to the sky as the realm of the Overseers disappeared for the last time they was truly mortal and living the one life they was all given with a whisper from the bat pony she spoke. “Never forget those in your heart...” with that they all turn and left for their own lives to live...