McGrath, Phoenix and Sutakira were walking around town, just trying to kill the time, even though they could be attacked by a omnicidal maniac at any time. "So were are you taking Elsa on your first date?", Sutakira asked Phoenix, even though he was smarter than the red head, the bluenette had to admit he knew a lot more about romantic stuff. "I'm taking her to a musical.", Phoenix said, surprising the other two, also earning a snicker from McGrath.
"Which one?", the bluenette continued to to ask, much to the surprise of Phoenix, who cheerfully told him "I am going to take her to Wicked!"
For some reason this made McGrath burst out in laughter, earning a surprised look from from the other two, "What's so funny about that?", Sutakira asked still weren't used to his laugh. They then spotted Skywalker and Rainbow flying overhead in a hurry, "What are those two doing?", McGrath wondered.
The duo arrived at Fluttershy's cottage, he quickly knocked on the door, but there was no answer, he knocked again. The door just opened and no one was inside, Angel Bunny though was.
Skywalker always thought he was an uptight prick, but he seems nice only to him and to the point where he could actually understand him, the bunny was trying to get hit attention. "What is it, Angel Bunny? You've seen Fluttershy?", Skywalker asked as the bunny was giving off hand signals that was very confusing to Rainbow. "She what!? Why!?", he said after getting what Angel Bunny was trying to say.
"What did he said?", Rainbow asked, not understanding anything Angel Bunny was trying to tell them. "Angel Bunny explained that his owner went to the Everfree Forest due to a tragic mishap.". Angel Bunny then handed Skywalker a note, "I can tell it is recent; the ink is slightly damp.", he said as he studied the note. "Wow, Jason Skywalker ace detective.", Rainbow said. Skywalker eyes widen as he read the note before reading it again out loud
My dear friends,
I leave this as my last message to you now that I see that Jason's heart belongs to Rainbow Dash. My only regret is that I couldn't confess to him sooner. Why I've done a few things for him to find out about my liking to him, and when anybody asks me about who I like is always no one. But, Jason, if you're the one reading this, then I'd like you to know that ever since I met you, I always liked you and hoped that we could have a bond together.
Tell everybody that I'll miss them and that I'll never forget them.
The way she wrote that broke Skywalker's heart, "Fluttershy is in love with me too.", but the worst part was where she was running away to, his face become determent, he wasn't going to lose someone as special to him as Fluttershy ever again. "We have to hurry! The forest can be dangerous at night.", Rainbow said relieved that he know where she is, but more worried that it was going to be dark soon. "Dashie, warn the others. I am heading into the forest myself.", Skywalker said, his tone showed that it was best not to argue with him right now, as he stood up and made his way to the forest.
After about two hours of searching, night had just fallen and Skywalker hears a very familiar voice in his head, "Jason, can you hear me?".
"I hear you, Twily. What's up?", Skywalker asked, he was happy to hear that Twilight, through the use of magic had found Fluttershy's location.
"She's not far from you now but she looks hurt, and... something else his heading that way.", this made Skywalker look worried, "Start heading west. I've already told everybody else to meet you there."
"No, stay where you are. It's getting too dark, if they look for us now they'll get lost too. I'll get Fluttershy and meet up with you guys soon.". Twilight remained silent for a few moments, "...Alright, but be careful.", she said. "Like I said, I'll be back soon, Twily.", Skywalker said, before speeding up, running as fast as they can towards Fluttershy, almost tripping more than once because of not paying attention. He then hear a faint voice not far from where he is.
Much to his shock, he saw twenty of those black creatures who followed Morgenstern, surrounding her. Skywalker not sure whether it was just a protective instinct, or something else, but as soon as he heard Fluttershy's desperate voice, he hurried to her rescue.
The pack circled around their pray, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. One of the creatures, longed at her, Fluttershy closed her eyes, waiting for the attack to come. A loud slash was heard, a foot making contact with a skull, and something hitting a tree. Opening her eyes, Fluttershy looked in shock, in front of her was Skywalker standing with his lightsaber out, already having taken out three of them.
The black creatures were momentarily startled by the arrival of the new comer who just crushed their mates. The creatures decided for an all-out attack, making their last mistake. Skywalker became a blur of motion, slashing at the creatures, two Heat Vision blast came out of his eyes, and disintegrating the creatures in a matter of seconds.
Deactivating his weapon, Skywalker allowed himself to calm down, but it wasn't helping much as he saw a very teary Fluttershy, whose hair was stuck in a few thorn bushes and who was lifting her leg. Skywalker rushed over and hugged her, "Fluttershy, you're so damn stupid! Why would you do this to us, especially me!?", he shouted, for the first time ever, sounding angry to her.
"I can't stand the thought of not being able to be with you the way that I wanted. I was looking for Dashie's for emotional support to confess to you today but... all I saw was you hugging her!", Fluttershy said her voice cracking.
"We'll talk about this later when we get back to Ponyville. Right now, I have to get. These thorns off.", Skywalker said, much to his shock, Fluttershy had broken her ankle, "Hold on, Flutters. I'm gonna get you out of this.", he start to remove some of the thorns that were stuck to her hair.
Eventually Skywalker is able to remove enough of the thorns that Fluttershy is able to move out of the rest. She noticed the irritated look on Skywalker's face. "Are you alright?", she asked. "I am fine, Flutters. It's you I am worried about. We need to get you back to Ponyville.", he said as he pick her up and cradle her, "You might not think so, Fluttershy, but I do care deeply about you. And you running off like that wasn't doing me a favor, it scared me, it made me sad that you wanted to leave and I was worried about you and so was everybody else.", she looks at him as he's carrying her. "Promise me that you won't do anything like this again.", he asked, a teary eyed mare promised him.
A hour has passed since then and everybody was waiting outside of the guy's house. "They should have been back by now.", Big Mac said, "Where could they be?", all of them where worried but Rainbow seemed to have the worst of it, she was pacing back and forth for over 20 minutes. Finally she decides to go looking for the two of them. "Don't, Rainbow. It's too dark, you would get lost in there too.", Twilight said but Rainbow argued furiously with her, "I can't just sit here and do nothing when my friends are in trouble!", she starts to spread her wings for take-off. "Look! It's Jason!"
Everybody then stops to look as, sure enough, Skywalker came walking out of the wood, carrying an injured Fluttershy into town. "Hey, guys! Twily, could you look over Fluttershy's leg for me please?", he asked.
Twilight nodded using her magic to carry the injured Fluttershy inside. Rainbow then runs up to him and hugs him as hard as she could. "I'm fine, Dashie...", Skywalker muttered as he rubbed her manes. "If you guys don't mind... I am going to take a shower... Need to clear my head.", he said as he walked into the house.
An hour later, Skywalker was letting the water pour down upon him, thinking about everything that had happened in the last few hours. He heard a knock on the door, hearing the voice of Twilight asking if he was okay. "I am fine.", he said dismissively, before turning to a more important question, "Is Fluttershy okay?"
"She's resting in Sutakira's room now. Her ankle was broken but it could have been much worse. She just needs to keep off of it until I can heal it fully.", Twilight's voice came from the other side. "That's good to hear... Can I go over to Sutakira's room to see her?", he asked washing the conditioner out of his hair, while Twilight told him it should be alright.
Meanwhile, in Sutakira's room, Fluttershy was sitting up talking with McGrath, Rarity, Pinkie, Phoenix, Applejack and Sutakira, or more like they were with each other. Fluttershy was looking over at her cuts, very minor of course, her bandaged leg, and uneven strands of hair. But deeper than that, she saw how badly it affected Skywalker, risking his life just to save her.
Now, there are two things haunting Fluttershy, her jealousy of Rainbow and the burden of Skywalker saving her. Just rethinking that over again is making a few tears appear. "You alright there, Fluttershy?", McGrath asked, giving her a worried look. Fluttershy looks down, "I know, I know, he says he forgives me, but I can't forgive myself... Having him go through all that because of me...", she muttered.
"Now, look, Fluttershy. Sure, he did all that, but he did it to prove to you that he does care about you.", Rarity said with a smile, as she was sitting next to McGrath. "Maybe even more. I mean, he even went and looked for you alone.", the red head said with a raised finger.
"It's possible he likes you too!", Sutakira said, with Applejack adding, "We've all known that ya had at least a slight crush on Jason, sugarcube.", Fluttershy looked slightly shocked. "Well you aren't exactly stealthy with hiding hints from anybody.", McGrath added dryly
Their attention was turned to the door when someone knocked on the door, and then Skywalker walked in, dressed in his usual blue polo shirt and black pants. "Hey guys...", Skywalker started but his friends already knew what he wanted to talk about. "We get it, you need to talk to her.", Phoenix winked but Pinkie wasn't getting it.
"Why does he needs to talk to her? Why are you pushing me in a way that suggests giving them privacy?", the pink mare asked as McGrath dragged her out of the room before closing the door behind them.
There was an awkward silence between them, neither of them knew where to start. "How long?", Skywalker asked with a shy look as he sat down at the edge of the bed. "I think it started when I met you at Twilight's Welcoming party.", she explained, "And through the years it only grew. I enjoy when you help me with my pets, talking to pass the time... well, I talk and you listen, mostly... Sometimes I succumb and fall asleep, and wake to find you still watchful and I know you're watching out for me."
"I would be a poor leader if one of you got hurt.", Skywalker said with a slight blush. Fluttershy's face slowly started to become more red as she continued to talk, "W-What I'm trying to say is... is that I trust you. Your the only male I feel so comfortable around. I know you'll be there when I need you... You are our... Leader, and my best friend and... sometimes I think that m-maybe we could be more than that...", she was surprised that Skywalker himself was having a blush on his face.
"Fluttershy... I-I had no idea you felt that way...", he slowly said, he could be so blind to someone's emotions like that. "What could possibly happen? I mean, a young mare gets rescued by a dashing super hero who lets her join his team and then they go off to save the Worlds? How could she possibly develop any kind of interest in him?", she replied dryly, making him chuckle.
All the feelings welling up in Fluttershy makes her do what she thought would've been impossible until now. Grabbing Skywalker's face with both her front hooves, she pulls his head close to hers. "I love you.", she said.
No time was left for any reaction as Skywalker puts his lips to hers. The sudden effect left Fluttershy shocked but only temporarily. The soothing feeling of Skywalker's kissing her though was slowly creeping throughout her body. The sheer force of will also went to her arms as he hugged back.
This causes for the Pegasus to wrap her wings around him, and let go, hugging him tightly and burying her face into his shoulder. "For so long now, Jason, I finally managed to work up my mind to finally confess. I'm just glad you like me back."
Skywalker looks at Fluttershy and see that she's in tears, but with a smile, a sight he never thought he would see, but it looks so cute and adorable. Skywalker wiping the tears of her eyes, while shading one himself, "I love you too, Fluttershy."