The Sun of My Heart

by BlueSun52

Chapter 22

It was after school and Soul went with his cousin Applejack to her home to tell her what had happened with Sunset. The two were in her room as Soul went to explained what happened. He told Applejack everything about what she was depressed about her missing her family and how she was feeling that she didn’t deserve their love. Applejack felt both shocked and awful at what she was hearing.

“My lord, no wonder she’s been so depressed like that,” Applejack said. “And she cried alone in the library?”

Soul nodded. “I don’t know what would have happened if I didn’t decide to take my library book back,” he commented. “We need to do something.”

“Ah agree with you on that, cuz,” Applejack said. She rubbed her chin as she tried to think of a plan. She then snapped her finger when she formed a plan. “Me and the girls can take her with us to some slumber parties. We’ll have a sleepover at each of our houses and cheer her up the best we can.”

“That sounds like a good plan, AJ,” Soul commented. “It might be enough to keep her off of her mind for a while. In the mean time, I’ll try to get her the best Christmas present ever.”

“That sounds like something that’ll make her happy,” Applejack commented. “So, what are ya getting her?”

“I rather not spoil the secret.”

“Ya go nothing do ya?”

“Not a clue.”

“Well, Ah’ll get started with the slumber party idea,” Applejack said before she grabbed her phone and started texting on it. “You in the meantime, need to get her the best gift ever.”

“I’m on it. How hard could it be to get someone a gift?” Soul asked.

“It is so hard to come up with a meaningful gift for someone that is very depressed about losing her family,” Soul said to himself as he laid on his bed on his back. He looked up at the ceiling with a frustrated expression and let out a groan. “And what’s worse is that I’m talking to myself.”

Soul felt something crawled up next to him and he looked to see his dog, Toby having his tongue stick out and staring back at him. Soul smiled and rubbed the top of his best friend's head.

“Sorry boy, I was so into my head, I forgot you were here too,” Soul said. He let out a weary sigh. “I wish you could talk like Twilight’s dog. I could really use the advice.”

Soul’s smiled slowly dropped into a blank expression as something started to form in his head. The moment he was able to piece together an idea, he let out a huge toothy smile as he had come up with, what he believed, was the most brilliant plan on history.

“Toby, you’re a genius!” Soul said before kiss his dog on the muzzle. Just as he had did that, Soul’s smile turned sour when he realized what he did. “BLAG! Why did I do that!?”

Soul jumped out of his bed and put on all his winter clothes on before dashing out of his room. He ran down the stairs and made his way towards the door. On his way, Dawn heard her son ran down the stairs while she was reading her newspaper and looked up at him.

“Soul, are you going somewhere?” she asked.

“Yeah, I’m going to break into my girlfriend's apartment and borrow something from her,” Soul replied when he opened the door.

“Okay, just- WAIT, WHAT!?” Dawn shouted after her son was gone with the door closed behind him.

Soul ran down the snow covered sidewalks as he pulled out his cellphone and held it against his ear. It rang a few times before someone picked up his call.

“Heya Soul, what’s up?” Pinkie answered.

“Pinkie, I need some equipment.”

Soul was climbing up a tree near Sunset’s apartment while he was wearing an all out black ninja outfit with night vision goggles. When he finally was able to get to the top, he used the night visions to zoom in on Sunset’s apartment windows.

‘Lights are still on. She must be still here,’ Soul thought to himself. ‘I need a way to get her out of there.’

While he continued to look through her windows, his eyes caught something over to the next window and saw with wide eyes and a burning red face to see Sunset only in her towel and her hair dripping wet. Soul lost his balance for a moment from the sudden peeking but was able to stay put on the branch and zoomed out of his goggles.

‘Phew, that was close. I know what happened last time and I don’t want that to happen agai-’

*CRACK!*

Soul pursed his lips under his ninja mask and looked to see the branch beginning to give way from his weight. The branch cracked some more as it seemed it was about to break off the tree. Just as it was breaking, Soul crossed both his legs and arms as he use one of his hands to stroke his chin.

“I should really consider not climbing up trees,” he said to himself before the branch broke off and caused Soul to fall to the ground.

*THUD!*

“OW!”

*WHACK!*

“GHA!”

Soul landed on the ground first before the large branch landed right on top of him. He felt dizzy with little stars swirling around his mind before falling into unconscious.

After a few minutes, Soul let out a groan and sat up. He lifted the branch off of him and wiped away the snow off of him. He looked up to see Sunset dressed in warm clothes as she had in her hand a piece of paper. Soul used his goggles to zoom in on the paper to read that it was her grocery list.

‘Man, did I get a lucky break.’

Sunset climbed into her car and drove off. Soul came from out of the bushes and ran over against the building’s walls. After taking a moment to make sure no one was looking, he reached into a bag he had around his shoulder and pulled out a grappling hook. He stood back and swung the hook in a circular motion until he threw it up in the air and it landed next to Sunset’s window.

‘Wow, that was a lucky shot for a first timer… Glad it didn’t end up breaking it.’

Soul tugged on it a few times to make sure it was in a good place. The hook was stuck on the edge and Soul prepared himself to climb it.

‘Alright. All I have to do is get up to the window and open it. I mean, why would anyone lock it? Who would be dumb enough to climb through an apartment window in the middle of the night?... Oh, right.’

Soul grabbed onto the rope.

‘Alright, let’s do this.’

Soul pulled himself up on the rope and placed his foot on the wall. But his foot kept on slipping off of the wall and he was difficulty climbing up the rope.

‘Come on! If all those famous action actors can climb walls, so can I!’

Soul kept on pulling himself up on the rope unaware that the hook was loosening against the edge. When Soul was finally able to get his feet on the wall and getting the hang of climbing a rope, the hook detached itself from the edge and Soul fell on his back. Soul groaned for a moment before looking up and saw the hook falling right at him.

‘Ah crap.’

*THUNK!*

“AAAAHH!”

Soul was unlocking the door to Sunset’s apartment with the tool picking set that Pinkie let him borrowed. He questioned why Pinkie had something like that on her but he decided that it was for the best not to ask questions. He tried to read the instructions on how to use tool picks but it was hard for him since he had one black eye from the hook that dropped in him. Just as he was about to give up on it, he heard something click on the doorknob and pumped his arms up in victory.

‘Woo hoo! I did it! I’m a hero... right, never mind.’

His triumphant victory was short lived when he saw something surrounded the doorknob. It looked like some kind of energy was forming around the lock and after a moment it shot a magical bolt of energy at him and shocked him. After the initial shock was gone, his eyes were wide opened from the intense pain and fell to the ground on his back. He removed his mask to let his mouth blew out some smoke out of him.

‘I’m guessing she has some magic traps. This is going to be a long night.’ Soul thought to himself. ‘This would be so much easier if I had a key with me.’

Soul sat up and straighten his back for a moment before he noticed that the doormat was moved because of the sudden shock. Soul raised a brow when he saw something shine under it. He moved the mat and saw that there was key underneath it. He picked up the key and scratched his head for a moment before looking at the lock.

Soul used the key as he twisted it to unlocked the door. He let out a victorious pump with his fist when the door opened and walked in. He closed the door and started his search for what he needed to help Sunset’s situation.

‘Alright, I’ve been here a few times, so I think I know where it might be,’ Soul thought as he walked through the living room and went into Sunset’s room. He quietly went in and started going through the drawers. He first went through some of her clothes, then when he went through the second drawer, he went red as it was filled with panties and bras and he quickly closed it and went through the last drawer at the bottom. He then checked under the bed, the bathroom and the closet.

After some time had past from searching the room, Soul scratched his head as he thought about where else the object he was looking for could be. ‘Where else could she have hid it?’ he thought to himself. As he was looking around the room, he stopped for a moment and saw a picture of him and Sunset together when his mom took pictures of them before they went to the Fall Formal.

Soul went over to it and picked it up to look over the picture. He looked at the smile Sunset had on her on that night and placed his finger over the picture like she was there with him. Soul frowned when he saw how upset Sunset was and how happy she was before then.

‘I promise to make you happy again, Sunny,’ he thought to himself.

Just as he rested the picture back to where it was, Soul noticed a wooden box that was behind it. He picked it up and opened it to see where the object he was looking for was.

It was the book that allowed Sunset to contact Twilight from her own world.

Soul smiled and picked up the book from the box and opened through it. He looked through the pages and saw all that Sunset had written down to her friend. He smiled as he saw a few of the pages that mentioned how much she loved and cared for him and telling Twilight about all the dates and other things they did together.

Soul finally made it to a page that was blank and pulled out a pen from his bag. He started to scribble down on it and wrote down what he needed to send to Twilight.

Dear Twilight,

You may not know this, but this is Soul writing this down. You know, Sunset’s boyfriend? Anyways, I need your help. Sunset has been depressed for the last few weeks and I need you to do something. Can you meet me at the School tomorrow at noon? Please don’t respond. I can’t let Sunset know about any of this yet.

Your friend,
Soul Writer

When Soul had written down the last of his words, he placed the book back into the box and made his way towards the front door. He quietly made his way and just as he was about to grab the doorknob, he heard the door being unlocked and the knob twisting. Soul’s iries shrunk and beads of sweat poured over his forehead.

Opening the door was Sunset as she walked through the door with a bag of grocery in her hand.

“Thanks girls, for bringing in my groceries with me,” Sunset said.

Right behind her was Fluttershy, Rarity and Sonata as they had a bag in each of their hands.

“Of course, dear. We would be happy to do so otherwise,” Rarity said. “I can’t believe how much groceries you had to gather.”

“Well, it is the holidays,” Sunset said. “And I was feeling pretty bad for a while, I wasn’t really in the mood to go out much.”

“Are you going to tell us why you’ve been acting like you were?” Sonata asked.

“Maybe after Christmas I’ll tell you girls but right now I just want to just try to get back to things being normal,” Sunset replied.

“As normal they could be around here,” Fluttershy commented. “I’m going to open the window for a second. If you don’t mind that is.”

“Sure, but why?” Sunset asked.

“I have some birds feeds with me and I wanted to get rid of them,” Fluttershy replied.

“Why would...Never mind,” Rarity said.

The girls placed their bags in the kitchen counter and fluttershy opening the window and placing the bird feeds before heading back to the kitchen while Soul hid himself behind a large chair in the living room. When he looked up to see the girls too caught up in their chatting, he took his chances and tiptoed over to the front door to see that it was still opened. Just as he was about to walk through the door…

“Ha, told you guys that I can get six up here no pr-” Rainbow Dash said as she walked up to the opened door. She stopped to see Soul still in his ninja outfit and his mask over his face that she didn’t tell it was him.

There was a long silence between the two as they stared at one another with Soul looking at her with shrunken eyes and Rainbow Dash having a blank look. Rainbow Dash squinted at the intruder and dropped the grocery bags to the ground before she made her next move.

“HIYA!”

*WHACK!*

“OOF!”

Rainbow Dash kicked Soul in the stomach which caused him to stumble back into the living room and starled all the girls.

“WHAT THE HELL!?” Sunset yelled as she saw the intruder.

“OH MY GOD, IT’S ROBBER!” Rarity shouted.

“SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!” Fluttershy cried.

“Cool! A ninja,” Sonata said in awe. The girls looked over to her with raised brows. “Oh, I mean, EEEK!”

“Don’t worry girls, I got this,” Rainbow Dash said as she walked up in the living and held her arms up in a fighting stance after she took of her jacket. “Alright pal, you just came to the wrong house to rob. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”

Soul got up on his feet and saw that he was in a tight spot. There was only two choices that laid before him: The first was he could reveal that it was him and tell them all why he was doing what he was doing and ruin any chance of making Sunset happy again (And possibly getting dumped.) The second: To fight Rainbow Dash.

With one clear choice, he knew which to take. Soul held up his arms up into a fighting stand that had his right arm over his head and holding out his left hand with his fingers in an L position.

Rainbow Dash smiled deviously. “Hard way it is then,” she said. ‘OH MY GOD, I’M ABOUT TO FIGHT A NINJA! HOW AWESOME IS THIS!?’

Rainbow Dash made the first move and charged at Soul and swung her fist at him. Soul blocked the first attack and parried it. He grabbed her other arm and threw her safely onto the couch. Just as he was about to make a break for it, Rainbow Dash quickly got back up and threw her body at him and against the wall. Rainbow Dash threw a few punches at Soul as he blocked them and quickly barrel rolled away from her.

Soul got back up and tried to kick Rainbow Dash in the knee, hoping that it would cripple her movement enough to make his escape. But Rainbow Dash jumped over the kick and sidekicked him the side.

Soul let out a groan as he placed his hand over the side and Rainbow Dash jumped towards him having her leg out a she was about to kick him. Soul ducked and Rainbow Dash collide with one Sunset’s chairs. Rainbow Dash shook it off after she landed roughly and got back on her feet to stop the intruder.

Soul reached into his bag and pulled out nunchucks and was performing several moves with them in hopes to scare Rainbow Dash. But instead, while he was performing the moves, Rainbow Dash saw a chance and kicked them out of his hands. The nunchuck flew through the air and was heading towards the girls.

“DUCK!” Rarity yelled and all of the girls hid behind the counter except for Sonata.

“What duck? I only see some nunchuck heading straight for-”

*BONK!*

“GHAAA!”

Sonata was hit in the head with the nunchuck and fell to the floor unconscious. Rainbow Dash and Soul winced when they saw their friend get hurt.

“Sorry, Nata,” Rainbow Dash meekly said.

‘I am so getting Sonata a big present for this,’ Soul though to himself.

Seeing his chance to end this, Soul quickly reached into his bag and pulled out a lasso. He threw it at Rainbow Dash and it wrapped around her. Rainbow Dash struggled to get free but was being pulled in by Soul.

“GET OVER HERE!” Soul said in a deep voice.

Soul made a tug at Rainbow Dash and was planning on hogtying her and make his escape. But his plan was short lived when Rainbow Dash instead charge towards and jumped in the air and extend both of her legs at him. He felt the full force of her kick and fell to the ground with a loud thud. Rainbow Dash got out of the lasso and walked over to him menacingly.

Soul got back on his feet but was being punched across the face and body as Rainbow Dash was delivering several blow to him with her fists. She then started kicking him at several places on his body as her speed was increasingly getting faster. Rainbow Dash stopped her barrage of attacks and saw the intruder standing up wobbling as he looked to be in a deep daze.

Rainbow Dash held both hands back with them opened and lunged at the intruder with them as she yelled.

“HADOKEN!”

*WHACK!*

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH-”

*THUD!*

Rainbow Dash punched the intruder with both open palms and forced him through the opened window that Fluttershy opened. Rainbow Dash let out a triumphant victory pose.

“Oh yeah! Who’s the awesomest now!?”

“Rainbow Dash! I know he was a threat but you shouldn’t have done that!” Rarity said. “What if you killed him!?”

“Then he deserved it. He broke into someone’s home, what do you think was going to happen?” Rainbow Dash countered.

“Can you at least check to see if he’s okay?” Fluttershy asked.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “Fine, but I doubt that’s really import-” she was about to finish but her face turned pale when she saw Soul lying on the ground without his mask and was groaning in pain. She gulped and looked back at the group with a worried expression.

“What’s wrong, did he die?” Sonata asked.

“Well um, he’s not there anymore,” Rainbow Dash lied. “He must have ran off. But I’ll check down stairs and make sure we’ve seen the last of him.”

“Alright, but do be careful,” Rarity said before Rainbow Dash closed the window and ran out the door.

Everyone let out a sigh of relief as they took time to collect themselves.

“Man, that was intense,” Sonata said. “Do you think he took anything?”

“We better found out,” Sunset said as she made her way to her room.

Rainbow Dash ran down the stairs and dashed over to where Soul was. She leaned down to him and lifted his head up.

“Soul, are you okay!?” Rainbow Dash asked in a concerned tone.

Soul opened his eyes and looked to Rainbow Dash. “Y-Yeah, I’m okay,” he said with a low tone on his voice. “Ya did a good number on me.”

“That’s good to hear,” Rainbow Dash said. “Now to my next question.” She then punched Soul in the stomach making him wince in the pain. “WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING!?”

Soul recovered from Rainbow Dash’s punch and opened his mouth. “I can explain everything, if you can get me to Applejack,” he said before slipping into unconsciousness.

Rainbow Dash pinched the bridge of her nose and let out a sigh. “Fine, but you better give me a good reason or I’m telling Sunset about this,” she said.

Rainbow Dash lifted Soul onto her back and dragged him to her car.

“Man and I thought I was really fighting a real ninja,” she said to herself.