//------------------------------// // The Student Becomes the Teacher // Story: My Little Heartbreak: Heartbroken // by Jet_Black1980 //------------------------------// Chapter 16 The Student Becomes The Teacher I don’t know how long I have been biking or even where I am biking to. However it seems that Twilight and her friends have stopped chasing me. For the moment. Looking around I realize I have no idea where I am in Canterlot. It wasn’t like they had maps of the city on the show, all they ever showed was cut aways of streets, shops, gardens and a castle in the mountain. I bop my head on the handle bars of the bike. I notice that this is one of the more quiet streets. The Castle and sun are behind me, symbols of Celestia looming over me. Watching me. They fill me with a dread that I have never felt before. “What the H-h-hay! Was I thinking?!” I bop my head against the handle bars of the bike again. “Ouch... Ugh. Why did I just run off like that? Seriously! Brain, why you no figure out that was a bad idea?!” I sigh. As if facing Celestia was a better option. I knew Twilight wanted answers on how I knew most of what I do, but those are things that I just couldn’t share. Besides the thought had already passed through my mind. “How do you tell another that they are only a character in someone elses’ story?” I thought to myself. At least my thoughts aren't being edited for content. I pedal a little slower. “Why the hell did I run?” Honestly, I wasn’t sure why I ran. I remember the door opening, Twilight praising Celestia.. and then this moment of terror. I mean yes, I was freaked out over the fact that Twilight was taking me to Celestia, but it wasn’t like that. It was a harsher fear. The type of fear that one gets whiles standing on a ledge over looking a deep chasm. The almost precognitive fear that you get in the back of your head as your eyes roam over the deep jet black gash in the earth, imagining what it would be to fall. Course they say it isn’t the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop at the bottom. And whiles that is true, the fear of falling can be far worse than the actual fall. That’s what I was feeling in that moment. It could be that I am so used to just doing my own thing, that if someone else is telling me what to do, I grow resistant. Passively aggressively putting off what I have been told to do. Getting told to do it over and over until I am numb to what they are telling me. I can’t do that here. Celestia is the ultimate authority, no pony questions her because she has all the power. And she will do with it what she needs to do to protect Equestria. If I were a threat to Equestria, she could do any number of things. Banish me to either another world or outside of the borders, turn me to stone, or something worse that I just can’t put a...hoof on. I sigh. “Hi Secret Spy!” Shouts an all together happy voice which causes my heart to nearly stop. “Look at my new outfit! It’s just like a real spy, I even have a belt with gizmos and gadgets and a decoder ring for secret spy messages!” It’s Pinkie Pie in a black body suit wearing roller blades. I don’t even get a chance to think about what to do here, not that I know what to think.. But my legs just start pedaling again. “Wait! We need to exchange decoder rings!” She shouts at me zipping after me. I have a feeling of what is going to happen. It’s what always happens on the show. They are going to work together and somehow it will all turn out for the best. At least for them. In the show they never showed what happened to those ponies and creatures that once defeated rode off into the sunset. Nobody knew what happened to Gilda, or Trixie, The Diamond Dogs, the crazy Flim-Flam brothers or even Iron Will. We are left assuming that all went well and that somewhere out there they still exist. Maybe I feel like them. Maybe I feel like a one trick pony who is just part of their adventure and then the Princess will do something, and I’ll never be seen again. Lost in the moment of these thoughts I can’t help but hear some labored flighty breathing to my left. “UM!.... *gasp* Do... You... Mind... If.. It Wouldn’t be so.. Much Trouble to slow down?” Fluttershy asks me. Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy? Twilight was most likely the one to come up with the plan. She always comes up with these things. Crap. She really is smarter than she looks. I am so screwed. I push forward. “Yes! I would very much mind it!” I reply making a sharp right down a narrow one way street. Not even half way down the second block and I hear a zip line being pulled. Pinkie some how has strung a line between two buildings and is falling down on a wire. “Come on! Look! I can totally be one of the Princesses Spies!” She says dangling upside down. I have to make a left here because she’s fallen near exactly in my path. The next street I turn on is a two lane and a bit busier, I find myself weaving and ducking past ponies. “Out of the Way! Move Please!” I shout. I hear wing beats again. Damn it. “Please, could we just talk a little?” Fluttershy asks catching up with me. “Uhmmm Let me think about that...MmmmmNope!” I reply bumping the bike into a higher gear. I start to move ahead of her at a frantic pace. Least on a bike I can almost ‘stand up’ without my spine screaming at me. Her wing beats are heard again and I see her struggling to keep up. “Ah! Hooo! Ah! hoooo!” She is gasping hard. “Could.. we.. try... to.. be... friends?” A sharp pang goes through my heart. I know that something is up and that these two are a part of it. But the combination of her struggling, her cuteness and her question are too adorable. Looking to my right I see a break in the traffic. “Stay away from me Fluttershy! I don’t want to hurt you!” I shout. Geeze taken out of context that sounds like I want to hurt her. I make it across the street with ponies shouting at me, but continue to pedal as hard as I can. I see an on coming downward slope, I can use that... The sound of inline skates hitting sidewalk is almost enough to make me jump off the bike. I look to my left. There is Pinkie Pie wearing the biggest smile, she’s skating backwards and waving at me. “So, I was thinking if I become a Spy, do I have to have a name like yours? Cause really it is a really Sad name and I wouldn’t want a sad name!” Ugh! Need. To. Pedal. Faster. “Why... *huff gasp* Would... You... Hurt... Me?” Comes Fluttershy from my right. “I wouldn’t!” I shout. “Then why did you say...” Fluttershy starts looking at me intently. “Oh Fluttershy, Spies are always hurting the ponies around them. Mostly the ones they love!” Pinkie says, then her ears droop and she looks thoughtful, all the while rolling skating backwards and easily avoiding ponies left and right. “Huh, Maybe I don’t want to be a Pony Spy now. I couldn’t hurt the ones I love! I love everypony!” “Is... That...why? You... wouldn’t... really... hurt.. anypony?” Fluttershy asks. “Yes! … No! Aaaargh! I Just don’t want to see you cry! OK?” I shout, I nearly hit an obstruction that would send me crashing. “Ugh! Why are you two being so distracting!?” I ask as we finally are reaching the bottom of the slope. With that question I get a moment of startling clarity. That’s part of Twilights’ plan. They’re the distraction, but distraction for what? I look at Pinkie and notice something I didn’t before. Her tail.. I had thought that it had been just flapping in the wind. That’s not wind. “Twitchy Tail...” I say as we are almost near the bottom of slope. Pinkie looks at me. “What?” “TWITCHY TAIL!” I shout. Pinkie’s tail is twitching! Something is going to fall! I need to veer off the path I’m on! Twilight Sparkle pops out of one of the bushes lining this street. “She knows! Rainbow! Change of Plans! Now before she can react!” She shouts her horn glowing. With Pinkie and Fluttershy on either side of me, I can’t make any turns, I attempt to pedal faster only to find my front wheel frozen. Equestria might be ruled by Magic, but it seems that Newtons Laws of Motion are still in effect. My body is still in motion and it wants to stay that way. And how is it doing this? By getting flung over the handle bars and into an arc in the air. I feel another trip to the all together magical land of pain coming on when I see the side walk coming at me. This trip is interrupted by a rainbow coloured force that knocks the wind out of me by jarring me to a near right angle and into an alley way. I am still flying backward... well backwards for me, when she lets me go. Momentarily I feel like a billiard ball. Then I feel myself hitting something soft and stretchy. It doesn’t take me too long to figure out what it is as Raritys’ magic, once again, wraps me up with a long cloth into something resembling a straight jacket. I feel something lasso around my waist and pull me down before I hit against the wall behind me. “Aaaaagh! Let Me Go!” I shout struggling. The six ponies walk towards me. “Enough is enough Heartbreak.” Twilight says stomping her hoof down. “We are going to see Princess Celestia. She will help us with this problem. And nothing bad is going to happen!” I snort and manage some way of standing on my hind legs. “I. Told. You. My Name-” “Isn’t Heartbreak!” Twilight says angry finishing my sentence. I see Fluttershy moving slightly behind Twilight. It’s the break I need. I force myself up and try sprinting. Closing my eyes I try not to focus on how goofy this must look but rather getting past these six. “AAARGH!” I roar as I nearly charge Twilight. “Oh No You Don’t!” Twilight says her horn glowing with a furious light. I feel myself frozen and then jarred to my right. And with an audible cracking sound into smooth brick-style wall. I cry out. At least I am making good friends with some pony here. And her name is Pain. Pain Hurtzalot. “Eeek! Heartbreak!” Fluttershy’s voice shouts as she rushes over to me. “Ouch...” I want to get mad at Fluttershy but I can’t be bothered. Something got knocked loose in that meet’n’greet with the wall. I try to move my leg. “Ah-Ah-Ah!” Feels like a bad sprain. Fluttershy looks at Twilight. I can’t tell from this angle but I don’t think she’s too happy. “You said that she wouldn’t get hurt!” Twilight takes a step back. “Fluttershy, it only looks like a sprain!” Rarity protests. “That doesn’t matter! She has been getting hurt from the moment she got here! Is it a wonder she is scared to see Princess Celestia!?” Is... is Fluttershy getting angry? I attempt to scoot away. I don’t want to see Flutter-rage.. However I quickly remember that I am in pain. “Aaaah!” Geeze I must sound like an over sensitive drama queen! “Fluttershy she-” Twilight begins. “You. Promised!” Fluttershy interrupts. “You promised that we wouldn’t hurt her!” “Fluttershy... We need to take her the Princess and she was about to attack me.” Twilight replies. “How do you know she was?” Fluttershy asks. “I-I... Had to react! She would have gotten away!” Twilight protests. “Look Fluttershy, this is for her own good!” I feel something lifting me up, the light blue almost lilac glow of Rarity’s magic sets me down across ways over Applejacks’ back. Fluttershy looks like she wants to protest more, but instead she flies off crying. I can’t help but feel streaks of anger spike through me. “Well congratulations Twilight. Not only did you make Fluttershy cry, but the student has surpassed the teacher.” I say uncomfortably atop of Applejack. Twilight looks at me Angrily. I don’t blame her. A day ago her world was perfect, she and her friends would play and have adventures. They’d talk and sing and learn. Then I came along crashing through her window. “And What do you mean by that, Heartbreak?” She asks. I can almost see the shadow of Celestia in her stance and poise. Snorting, I roll my eyes. “'This is for her own good'. I bet those were Celestia’s last thoughts, if not her last words to her sister before she banished her to the moon.” “Alright, Little Miss. That’s enough out of you. Rarity would ya ever be so kind?” AJ asks. “In quieting Miss Heartbreak? Delighted.” She replies plucking a bridle from her bag. It doesn’t take her long to slip it over my face and muzzle.. I drop my head in humiliation as they start to take me to the castle. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight felt the sting of Heartbreaks words lingering as the others started walking back to the castle. This didn’t make any sense. She always wanted to be like Celestia and was always seeking her approval. Why wouldn’t she want to surpass her teacher? “She’s only trying manipulate you Twilight..” She said to herself trying to rationalize it. But it wasn’t helping. “If that’s the case.. then why do I feel like the bad pony here?” She sat down whiles the others carried Heartbreak off. “Yo. Twilight, You coming?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Uh Yeah, Just give me a second! I’ll meet up with you at the castle.” She said faking a smile. “After I figure out how to fix this..” she muttered under her breath. The whole mythology of what happened in Equestria that night when Nightmare Moon was banished by Celestia was always a fuzzy thing. All knew of the story of what happened and how Princess Luna felt neglected her works unappreciated by her subjects. How jealousy drove her insane with rage. But they never told of what happened in between. If it was a slow or sudden transformation. If Celestia could have done something or was powerless. She now felt like she was about to do something terrible by bringing just this one pony to her life long mentor, teacher, and ruler. Spike came running down the hill huffing and puffing. “There you all are!” He said. The others didn’t look to be in the mood to respond. “Whoa.. Cold crowd. Twilight, I see your plan went off perfectly.” He said. “Yeah...” Twilight replied sadly. “Oh geeze... What’s wrong?” He asked. Twilight was always pleased when one of her plans went off. “It’s just... What if she’s right about the Princess Spike?” Twilight asked. “What if bringing her to Princess Celestia is only going to make things worse than they already are? Ugh! How do I make this right?!” Spike looked at Heartbreak. She seemed to have really hit the depression stage of her grief pretty hard. What’s more, they put a bridle on her. “Ouch, that’s harsh.” He thought. “Well... I don’t know Twi’. I do know that I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes. I mean if every thing she says is true about being from another Universe, then really... she’s got nothing. No home, no family, no friends, and even if she seems like she knows everypony here, nopony here knows her. She doesn’t have anypony she can even trust.” Spike said. Twilight blinked and a spark went off in her brain. “That’s it. That’s how I fix this.” Twilight said in the middle of her thought. “Spike, I need you to take an urgent letter to the Princess.” Spike looked at her confused like, but took out a quill and some parchment anyhow.. With how Heartbreak was running from trying to get to Celestia, he didn’t see how writing a letter to her was going to help fix the problem they currently faced...