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// Three: Questionare! 
// Story: Divided By The Flames 
// by New Dawn 
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Golden Oaks Library (Orpheus’ World)





        As the groups settled into the library a silence took the air. 





        “So…” Twilight nervously said. “Who wants to start?”





        “I believe I should.” Anson said. “That way, I could properly explain why Dinky refers to me as “Daddy”.”





        “I’d like to know too.” Derpy spoke up. 





        “Well, it happened a little bit after I arrived here. I met Dinky, who knew Orpheus, and I was helping her with some Multiplication problems. During this, she looked a little upset and when I asked her what was wrong, Dinky said that I reminded her of her dad. Time Turner. That’s when I told her about my brother and then… she asked me if I could be her dad.”





        “And you said yes.” Faith replied.





        “Exactly. I didn’t want Dinky to feel alone because at the time, I had only known that she lost both of her parents and she needed somepony to help support her. I was only doing what I thought was best for your daughter, Ms. Hooves.” Anson finished, getting on the ground in front of Derpy like he was asking for forgiveness.





        “It’s Ok… I understand.”





        “Y-you do?” Anson asked, a little confused. The mare nodded her head in response, hugging Anson. 





        “You as well as Orpheus have taken care of my little muffin and because of that, I can see that she has grown up. You mind not be her real father, but I’m just as proud to call you her surrogate father. In addition, I’m glad to see that Dinky has a sister as well.” 





        Faith turned at that moment to look at Dinky as the filly looked at her. The two of them hugged each other tightly as they embraced one another. Both of them were happy. Faith always wanted to have a little sister and Dinky always wanted to have a big sister. Now, both of those dreams have just came true. But now, Twilight herself had a few questions. Specifically for both Anson and Nicko.





        “Hey Dinky, can I please talk with Nicko and Anson? You can go to your room if you want.”





        “Okay, Twilight! Come on sis!” Dinky cheered as the two of them went to the upstairs room that Dinky was living in. Now, Derpy, Twilight, Orpheus and the two brothers were in the room while Thanatos was keeping an eye on Sakuya for if she woke up. 





        “So Twilight, what is it that you need to talk about with us?”





        “Well… There are a few things I want to well…… clear up, so to speak.” The Unicorn asked, taking out a small book that resembled a embedded notebook. “According to Anson the last time we met, he said that the two of you were twins. But looking at you now, you two seem to be much farther apart in age and not like twins at all!! What exactly is the reason for that?”





        Both brothers looked at each other. Anson was now a little taller than his brother, but both of them looked almost the same. However, the difference between the two was their voices. Anson’s voice sounded a lot deeper now when he was speaking. “Well, between our Equestria and our home, there's a time difference of three. Which means that when one day passes in Equestria, three days pass back on earth. For me, I was encased in stone for seven years while Anson had been back on earth. Which means I’m 25 and he’s right now 39.”





        “.... Ok, Yeah… WHAT?!” Orpheus shouts, falling back a little.





        He recovers and continues. “It’s only been like, A month or three after you left here!”





        “Did I doze off again?” Sakuya mutters, walking down the stairs. 





        “What can I say Orphy?” Anson said, shrugging his shoulders. “Different worlds, different time based differences. Also, hello again. Sakuya right?”





        She nods and leans against the wall. “S’up?”





        “Just trying to answer some questions Twilight had.”





        “Jeeaaaa-Twilight trying to nerd you out?” 





        “No. Just trying to clarify some things.” She said. 





        “Whatever you say Nerd.”





        Nicko sighs. Sakuya still looked a little Tipsy based on her choice in answers. “So yeah, to recap; I’m 25, he’s 39 and time is different in each world. Moving on…”





        “Before anything else goes on, One last thing.” Sakuya says, climbing on the railing. 





        She suddenly leapt off, gliding down towards Orpheus.









        “THE- Ow!”





        Nicko facepalmed himself and Anson just sighed. Being a stagediver was one thing, but performing a WWE move off of the Bannister was not something that they actually expected. 





        “Seriously?! What are-”





        “That’s for leaving me aloooneee Jake!”





        “.... Ok yeah, Should I stay out of this?” Thanatos said from the top of the stairs. 





        “One, yes. Two, can we please focus back on what Twilight had to ask us?” Anson asked. “We did interrupt her mid sentence before Sakuya decided to go all John Cena on Orpheus. Which reminds me, are you okay?”





        “Yeah… We are having a talk later.” He says, rubbing his head. 





        “Fine…”





        “Okay. Now that is done, where do you think you’re going to go from here Anson?” Twilight asked. 





        “Well, I was thinking of staying with Nicko and Faith. I’m here anyways and I was thinking about ways for me to spend more time with my daughter. Plus, I wonder how Amy and the others are since I left.”





        “Oh trust me… you rather not know.”





        “Uhh… Who’s Amy?”





        “ …… Remember Sakuya when she was drunk? Well, think that, but worse…” Nicko told them, pulling out his phone. “Listen…”





        PLAY





        “We only have one other option to handle a threat like this… But it was Decommissioned sometime ago, Princess.”





        “The Judicator. A aerial carriage that allows for descents from up to 10000 feet!”





        “Wow… I’m surprised you actually knew about that.”





        “DO YOU EVEN READ MY CHRISTMAS LIST!!?!”





        END





        “Case in point.”





        “Ok, Yeah. She’s worse than me drunk.” Sakuya said.





        “Also, she once walk into a classroom at Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns, pretended to get herself stuck in a wall and said “Hey kids!! Wanna see a dead body!?” Trust me, My Twilight witnessed everything.” Nicko said, remembering one of the talks the two have had recently.





        The Personas, Minus Sakuya who was busting her gut with laughter, and Twilight all had pale faces plastered on. “It’s not funny, Sakuya.”





        “Jus-just the expression on Filly Twilight’s face would be priceless!”





        “This happened when she was giving a speech at the academy… Not during her fillyhood.”





        “I… Ok never mind.” 





        “Wait…… Why was I giving a speech?” Twilight asked.





        “Can’t tell you.” Nicko quickly retorted.





        “Why-?”





        “Spoiler alert!” 





        “Spoilers..? WHAT?!” Twilight shouted. 





        “Four words…” Anson told her. “Just… Roll… With… it.”





        “But- Urgh!!!” 





        “And why did you do that?” Orpheus asked in a whisper.





        “Because any spoilers might unwind time and space as we know it.”





        “Oh come on… Can’t you just tell me if Sakuya would lose to Rainbow in a race?” He asked.





        “Well, Duh.”





        “Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, WHAT!?!”





        “It’s not a spoiler if it’s obvious.” Nicko added onto it. “Anything else you guys want to ask?”





        “I won a drinking challenge if that’s anything to prove!” Sakuya chirped.





        “That had side effects.” Nicko said. “I was the one who had to hold Rainbow like I was cuddling Spike.”





        “That… sounds cute.”





        “She called me Papa.” The Rune Slayer added on.





        “Aww…… The FEELS!!”





        “What did I miss during the time I was trying to snap her out of her drunken state?!” Orpheus shouted. 





        “Rainbow thought I was a blanket, then called me Papa and snuggled in my lap.” Nicko said as the Cyan pegasus was just entering the room. Her reaction to what Nicko said was exactly what you would find on an old Mastercard commercial.





        Priceless.





        Click!





        The next minute, Orpheus had darted in front of Rainbow with a mangled camera that had still managed to work. She didn’t even realized what just happened until Orpheus started talking again. 





        “Good thing we didn’t manage to mess this up too badly.” He says, taking out the film. 





        “And I was just about to ask what was going on.” Rainbow sighed. She saw the new figure next to Nicko and became confused. “Who’s the new guy?”





        “Anson Nocte, at your service-.”





        “Wait… As in Anson, Dinky’s father?”





        “Wow…… News does travel fast.” The Infinity Sword said, gripping his swords and then stretching out his arms. “Yes, Dinky see’s me as that and Derpy approved of me being her surrogate father. Dinky now sees my daughter as her sister.”





        “Wait, You’ve got a Daughter?” Both the persona and Pegasus ask. 





        “Did you not see the white haired girl that was with us?” Nicko asked sarcastically. “It wasn’t that hard to miss.”





        Just then, Faith came out from Dinky’s room with the filly alongside her. “Hey there. Did you guys call me for something?” That was when Orpheus and Rainbow saw her, despite the fact that she saw them earlier when Dinky tackled Nicko in a case of mistaken Identity.





        “... Ok, Didn’t expect that one!” Rainbow shouts.





        “Well… Uh… Late congrats man.”





        “Thanks. Always appreciated.” Anson replied





        “Moving on…” Sakuya says from the corner. 





        “You had a question, Sakuya?”





        “Nah. I’m just bored sitting over here.” Anson sighed. He personally thought that the so called Detective would have more questions for them like what their powers were and what not. But soon, Rainbow was able to fill the void for that.





        “Hey, can we see how you two fight!?”





        “Rainbow! Why did you… Never mind..” Sakuya mutters. 





        “Well, you probably already saw how my brother fights…” Anson said. “But, maybe I can explain a little more on how I fight since I’ve learned a LOT about it over the years we were separated. For one thing, my second sword has a name. Conwell. In addition, it has a soul that can talk to me like how Eris talks to Nicko. However, it doesn’t have a physical body.”





        “Wow. You HAVE gotten more knowledge. Hope you haven’t gotten rusty.” Orpheus said.





        “That’s not the only thing. Conwell allows me to summon multiple swords at once and attack multiple times, but I also have an awakening state where my strength is increased temporarily for 90 seconds at most. Same goes for my brother, but I’ve been practicing.”





        Sakuya looked at him with curiosity in her eye. “Interesting..” She mutters. 





        “I believe though that the one I want to see fight though… is Faith actually.” Anson said, surprising everyone in the room, including his daughter.





        “Well, Actually, How does she fight?” Thanatos asked, looking down. Instead of saying anything, Faith put both of her hands by her ears and snapped her fingers. Her earrings glowed and soon, both of the drones that served as her companions and her guardians took form in front of them. Putting a new terminology to the phrase “Digistruct” as they soon took in the surrounding setting. Even Dinky was quite surprised.





        “With my partners.”





        “Greetings.” Both Moby and Remy spoke, startling Sakuya and Twilight.





        “Robots… Or are they Magical… Construct thingies?” Sakuya starts


         


        “And where can I get one?” Orpheus finishes. 





        “The proper term you’re looking for is Drone, Sir.” Moby said. “We are a pair of Nasod drones that were created to serve any purpose for Lady Faith. We are her teachers as we are her tools.”





        “Dangit…” Orpheus mutters. 





        “Still on the search for a Tom?” Twilight asked.





        He sadly nodded. Somewhere a certain Marshmallow pony is blushing intensely. Soon, Moby and Remy pulled up a series of screens that allowed for everypony to see what powers she was capable of as well as footage of her other encounters in some of the other worlds. Rainbow though, was personally impressed by the hyperactive skill that she could pull off named Lunatic Scud. 





        “Impressive!” She shouted.





        “Why thank you. I still have a long way to go to learn everything, but I’m glad to hear your support. It’s quite encouraging.” Faith told her.





        “I’ve actually got some questions on the topic of “Displaced”. Nicko mentioned it earlier and Twilight explained to the best of her ability. I just wanted to know what your Equestria was like.” Sakuya states. 





        “Well, the ponies in our world are anthropomorphic and Celestia has a brother instead of a sister named Artemis. So…… that’s a thing.”





        “Now I really wish I still had my notebook.. Twi, can I borrow one?” Sakuya asked.





        Twilight moves a pad of paper and a quill over as she plucks it from the air.





        “Also, the first encounter that they had with a Displaced was our parents.”





        “You mean Grandma Ciela and Grandpa Luke?” Faith asked out of curiosity. 





        “Yep, those are the ones.” Anson said. Out of curiosity, he asked Moby a question. “Hey Moby. Do you have a visual on the two people I just mentioned?” The Drone nodded, soon pulling up an image of the two of them from when he last remembered his parents. 


        





        “Of course, they weren’t like this back then… Instead, they looked like this before they got diminished of their old set of powers.” Again, Moby changed the image.








        “In fact, when Celestia and Artemis were younger, they served as bodyguards and caretakers for the two of them.”





        “Woah.” Twilight simply sighed. 





        “Don’t. Even. Think about it.” Orpheus said, getting up and swatting Twilight before she could do anything. 





        “However, when we last saw them, we were six years old. When the two of us were eighteen, we saw them again, but it lead to an all out brawl between both Mom and Nicko before she realized that it was her son. She had not seen her children in 1000 years after all.”





        “Wow. That’s deep.” Rainbow mutters, looking away. Nicko assumed that the Pegasus had learned that from Orpheus again, before looking at his brother. “Well, if there’s no further questions, then we should get going soon. You know… before Pinkie Pie throws Sakuya a party for coming to Ponyville.”





        “Wait what-?”





        “Did somepony say… PARTY?!” 





        “Damn it, Nicko. You just had to jinx it.” Anson sighed… “Well, maybe we should go after the party. We are guests after all.”





        “Ooh! We have more interdimensional guests?! That’s the first ones in… A month!” Pinkie shouts. 





        “Would you like some help?” Faith asked her. 





        “Thanks!” Pinkie said before darting off. Faith herself just looked puzzled at her father as she looked around the room. “So… was that suppose to be a yes or what? Because that just confused me.”





        “Just roll with it.” Orpheus mutters. Anson himself, snickered, surprised to see that the Persona actually said the same saying he said earlier.





        “Oh yeah Rainbow, You’ll probably want to head back earlier from the party before the Tartarus crash gets you…” He said, rubbing his eyes. 





        “Psh! I dominated that tower!”





        “I don’t think he meant it like-.” THUD!!! “-that…” Now Rainbow was passed out on the floor, asleep.





        “Wait, She just slept off a hangover, How’d that work?!” Thanatos yelled.





        “Meh. Tartarus works in weird ways.” His brother retorted. “Don’t question it.”





        “Ok… then.”





        The party that occurred later was one of the biggest that Pinkie Pie had ever thrown yet so far. Filled with treats and games galore plus much much more. With the amount of ponies that had arrived for the celebration, Spike and Twilight had only one… collective answer for all the guests that were there attending the party at that current moment. Which sounded rather profane at that moment in time, but also necessary so she could let off some much needed steam since some ponies started bringing in cameras and recording devices.





        “HOW THE BUCK DID YOU PONIES GET IN MY HOUSE!!?!”





        “I wonder the exact same thing everyday…” Thanatos sighed, retreating upstairs for some much needed sleep. Later, Nicko and the others said their final goodbyes before returning to their Equestria. But not without saying goodbye to little miss Dinky. Who now, despite losing  her father in the unknown fire that had occurred months before, now was part of a family that she was glad to have. Reuniting with her mother and now being able to have an older sister.