The sound of stone smashing into the ground was heard throughout the whole of the ruined Canterlot, broken by Twilight’s repeated screams of ‘GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!’ and Avenger’s constant repeats of “OH SHIT! OH SHIT! OH SHIT!”
The demons briefly looked to the streets to see the intimidating looking Heroic Spirit fleeing from a lavender unicorn magically wielding a large pillar to try and smash him. One of them was even recording the incident on a… smart...phone…. DAMMIT AARON.
Avenger was terrified of Twilight Sparkle now, given how the unicorn was trying to kill him!
He just wanted to talk to her but he wanted to add his own flair to their meeting.
He gave a very unmanly squeak as he found that he had taken a wrong turn. He jumped to the very end of the dead end, the ‘dead’ part getting close.
He rolled over, shouting the first thing that came to his mind. “I just want to go home!” He screamed as he covered his face with his arms, expecting a quick and gruesome death.
What he felt instead was a slight tap of stone on his head, the pillar having stopped at his words. He peeked out and fell over at how close he came to death.
“What? What do you mean?” Twilight asked, peeking at the man curled up on the ground, now; when she heard it.
The soft sound of sobbing.
She moved the pillar and walked over to the shaking person, seeing him in the fetal position with his hands covering his face.
“I-I don’t want to be here! I didn’t ask to be this!” Avenger sobbed, feeling Twilight rubbing his head.
Avenger continued, tears leaking from his eyes in great streams, “I-I just w-want to go home! I didn’t m-mean to use the mud! I didn’t! B-but Celestia! She didn’t believe me…. she tortured me for days on end….”
Twilight bristled at that last statement.
There’s no way Celestia would do that… right?
She shook that idea out of her head for the moment and continued to listen to Avenger talk.
Soon, after talking for what felt like ten minutes, he seemed much calmer.
“Do you feel better?” The lavender unicorn asked him, Avenger sitting up straight now.
He nodded. “Yeah... I’m sorry for scaring you.”
“No no no!” Twilight waved a hoof quickly. “It’s my fault for acting so rashly.”
Avenger chuckled lightly, Twilight joining him.
It was the start of an odd friendship.
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“So, how did you end up… here?” Twilight asked, motioning to their surroundings as they walked back to the castle.
Avenger rubbed his head a little. “It’s complicated. I mean, it might rub you the wrong way about Celestia. She is responsible after all…”
“What?” Twilight looked up at the nervous Heroic Spirit, “Why would she put you in my head?”
“Well, it’s more that she probably thought the Elements would slowly destroy me if I was sealed in them. The Elements actually read my mind and were much kinder than I expected.”
Twilight was about to ask about why he was put in the Elements in the first place but caught herself, remembering what he was saying while he was crying.
He had done something by accident with that mud but he never said what he had used it on or for.
She knew he probably wouldn’t tell her what that mud was about right now.
“The Element of Magic actually put me to sleep until a year ago… when Discord was around.” Avenger shuddered as Twilight stopped.
“Y-you’ve been in my head for an entire year!” She shouted, thinking back to all the personal moments.
“Y-yeah, but I’ve only been able to do anything or look out your eyes when you saved the Crystal Empire!” Avenger moved away, fearing more attacks by the cute little unicorn. “And I don’t want to see you shower! I’m better than that!”
Twilight was still fuming when she felt a weird sensation, like she was floating.
“Oh, you seem to be waking up.” Avenger noted, Twilight starting to fade for him.
“Wait, will I be able to talk to you again?” She asked quickly, everything starting to fade to white for her.
“Of course. I think we’ll be able to talk outside of here if you remember it?”
“Wait, what do you me-?” Everything went completely white.
Twilight rolled out of bed, feeling rather refreshed. She looked to Spike, who was still fast asleep.
She smiled warmly at her little assistant before sneaking down the stairs to make pancakes for him.
The entire time, she had a nagging feeling at the back of her mind that she had forgotten something important.
Also in the back of her mind, Avenger shuddered, realizing that she had forgotten her dream. He just knew this night would suck.
Princess Celestia looked at the papers she had been working on. She had another nightmare about him last night.
Avenger.
She winced as she remembered his last words before being sealed in the Element of Magic. Celestia felt that this was one of many horrible mistakes she had made.
She looked out the window at the sun, remembering the look on his face… the same face that kept invading her nightmares.