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Chapter 4: Be what you need to be.
[Shock Wave’s POV]
While we were eavesdropping, the door was suddenly glowing with a purple coloured glow and it opened. We were surprised to see the princess had arrived already. We both bowed down to her and entered the library.
“Ah, it’s good to finally see you in person, Shock Wave.” Princess Celestia said to me.
“It’s great to see you too, Princess. And how did you know my name?” I asked the princess.
“I know a lot more than you know yourself.” She answered.
“So, I hope we got the place looking spic and span enough for you.” Electric said to the princess.
“Oh, I am not here to just simply look around to see how things are going. I actually want to have a few words with you two.” the princess said to us.
“Did we do something wrong?” I asked the princess before looking at Twilight to see if she has anything to say. She stood near the princess only observing us converse with Princess Celestia.
“Oh, no. You didn’t do anything wrong!” She blushed a little bit. Twilight seemed suspicious about how the princess looked.
“I just want to say, Welcome to Equestria. I know you and your friend here are new.” The princess welcomed us.
“Now, I would like to tell you something else. You may have been doing this already but please do not expose who you really are to the ponies.” Princess Celestia said to us.
“Oh, so you’re saying that you already knew?” I asked the princess.
“I already knew you were going to come here long before you would’ve even thought about it” She answered.
“Of course you would, princess.” Electric said while smirking.
“Anyway, why can’t we reveal ourselves?” I asked Princess Celestia again.
“Let’s just say that it’s better to keep quiet about such topics. But you may reveal yourselves to your close friends here in Equestria since you can trust them.” She answered again.
“Okay, but what if I don’t want to?” I asked her.
“Your choice.” She said.
“Wait, what do you mean, princess?” Twilight suddenly asked the princess. “Shock and Electric both look like normal ponies to me.”
“There are a different species from a different universe called ‘Humans’. Ponies here don’t really know what they are, only a few do and they believe it’s better to keep it quiet.” Princess Celestia answered Twilight’s question.
“Oh. Wait, how is that even possible?” Twilight was astounded.
“Well it seems so that the multiverse theory would be correct,”
“If there is nothing else to discuss about, I should be leaving now. I have a lot of work to do,” The princess said to us.
“Alright princess. It was nice to meet you. I’m pretty sure many ponies don’t get this opportunity to meet Princess Celestia in person.” I said to the princess.
“Oh wait, princess, I have something to ask you!” Electric suddenly sounded out.
“What is it, Electric?” asked Celestia.
“This may sound a bit foolish but can we please have our own house?” Electric said.
“Hmm, maybe. I’ll need to ask my steward.” The princess said to Electric.
“Sweet.” Electric said while grinning.
“I suppose I’ll have to go now. I hope to see both of you again some other time.” The princess said as she walked outside and entered her chariot.
“Goodbye, Princess Celestia!” Twilight said as she waved.
It was an eventful evening. We continued to work at the library like normal times. As time goes by I wonder what would happen if I reveal myself to other ponies. Princess Celestia said that would be a bad idea but that was very vague for such an important topic.
I looked out the window and realized that we have been working till night. Time sure does pass by when you’re not paying attention. As we were cleaning up, the library went quiet for a moment until we heard knocking on the door. It turns out it was Spike who had returned from a few errands.
“Hey, Spike.” I greeted him.
“Oh, hey Shock.” Spike said as he entered.
Spike continued in and asked, “What have you guys been doing?”
“Oh, nothing. Just doing our jobs of course.” Twilight said to Spike.
Twilight sat down and started to read a book. I couldn’t really tell what book it was.
“Alright, I’m gonna hit the bed, today’s been rough.” Spike headed upstairs.
“Yo Shock.” Electric said.
“Hey, Electric. What do you need?” I asked him.
“Just call me L. Anyway, since you’re an unicorn, could you maybe…” He paused while smirking.
“Bring some weed here?”
“Maybe. I need to learn a few spells before I can do something like that.” I said.
“Okay. Seems like life here is going pretty well for us.” said Electric as he hopped on a couch.
“Yup,” I replied, “Man, is Blaze literally dead or something? He hasn’t even woken up yet.”
“I don’t know, he’s been lazy as hell since he has arrived here.” Electric shrugged.
“I’m gonna go check on him.” I said to Electric.
I walked up the stairs and went straight towards the room we were sharing. As I opened the door I couldn’t see Blaze anywhere. I found a note on the bed. I tried to read it but it seems it was in a different language.
“Hey L! Can you come up here for a minute?” I called Electric up to the room.
He came upstairs and arrived into the room.
“What’s up?” He asked.
“You know what this note says?” I passed the note to him.
Suddenly his eyes widened. “Oh shit!” he was alarmed.
“What is it?!” I asked him in panic too.
“He’s trying to kill himself! Quick, We gotta look for him!” he said as he headed downstairs in a hurry.
“Oh crap.” I followed him downstairs and continued outside.
“Wait! Where are you guys going?” Twilight asked us as we ran outside.
“No time to explain!” We dashed past her.
“Hmm, I hope everything is okay.” Twilight pondered.
As we ran out, I asked “Where the hell are we going actually?”
“The Everfree Forest!” He shouted.
Ah, damn. Why did it had to be that place. It’s very unsettling to stay there but I still had to go to look for Blaze. As we ran for a few minutes, we finally reach The Everfree Forest. We entered it in a hurry and started to call out for Niko.
“Niko!” Electric yelled out.
“Guys! I’m over here, help!” We heard him at a distance. We rushed to the source of his voice
We saw him half covered in what looks to be stone. He was looking at a weird mutant chicken.
Instantly, Electric kicked the chicken into oblivion and it disappeared into the forest.
“Damn, nice kick.” I complimented his strength.
“Thanks, guys.” Niko said as he panted.
“What the hell were you thinking?!” Electric exclaimed.
“I just don’t know. I fucking hate being here. I’m sorry. I-I… I just want to go home.”
Electric sighed “You know that’s not possible. You’re dead back home.”
“I know…” Blaze said, “You guys seem to fit in so easily. People here never bothered about me, it’s always about you and Shock.”
“We can work this out, okay?” I said to Blaze.
“There is no point.” Blaze said while a tear came out of his eye; “I am not made for this type of world. I just don’t fit in.”
“Maybe there is a way...” Electric thought for a moment.
“What is it?” I asked Electric.
“Shock, transport us back to Twilight.” L said to me.
“Alright, but I haven’t tried this spell much, so just bear with me.” I said to him.
I concentrated and suddenly a bright light came out of my horn and flashed us all. As our sights recovered, we were in the library while Twilight was surprised to see me used the magic spell.
“Wow, I only taught you that one a few days ago. Great job, Shock.” She complimented my abilities.
“Yeah, that’s great and all but we need your help, Twilight.” Electric said to Twilight.
“What is it? And why is Blaze crying? And why is he part stone? Did you guys get attacked by a cockatrice or something?” She asked Electric.
“It’s a long story. Can you fix him up?” He asked.
“Sure, albeit it’ll take awhile.” She started to heal him.
“We need to do something about Niko.” I said to Electric.
“We’ll figure things out.” He assured me.
“I hope so.” I said as I looked at Twilight performing some spells on Blaze.
“I’m gonna go sleep. I am tired as hell. See you tomorrow.” I said to Electric as I walked up the stairs.
“Yeah, sure.”
I got into bed thinking of ways to help Blaze. Maybe there is no hope for him. But I shouldn’t talk like that. It might become karma, I closed my eyes hoping for a better morning.
~The next morning.
I woke up feeling rested but a little light headed about last night’s surprise. I looked around to only see Electric sleeping on the floor. I tried to look for Blaze but failed. I started to panic thinking that he ran away again. I quickly woke up Electric to tell him about Blaze’s disappearance.
“Dude, wake up. I think Niko is gone again!” I said to him while shaking his body heavily.
“What? Oh you’re just imagining things…” Electric said while still half asleep.
I smacked his face with my hoof to wake him up instantly.
“Ow, what the fuck was that for?” He asks me as he was rubbing his face.
“I think Niko is gone again!” I said to him again.
“What? What are you talking about? Oh, right. You went to bed early last night.” He said to me.
“What happened?” I asked Electric.
“Well, NIko wanted to live where it’s like back home. So I suggested he lived in Manehattan. So we got him a train ticket there and a small apartment.” Electric said as he was scratching his head.
“Where’d you get money to get him an apartment?” I asked him because we can’t afford an apartment.
“Well, Twilight knows a guy.” He replied with a sleepy voice.
“Oh. So he’s gone now?” I asked him with curiosity still stuck in my head.
“Yeah, he left last night after Twilight finished healing him.” Electric said to me with eyes.
“You think he’s going to be happy there?”
“I think so. Manehattan is pretty much like Earth cities.” He said to me.
“Maybe, I can’t say. I’ve never been there before,” I said to him, “Well, I’m gonna go get breakfast.”
“Yeah, sure.” Electric said to me as he laid back down.
I shook my head as I exited the room to get to the kitchen. I walked down the stairs and entered the kitchen but to see no one inside. I felt happy to be left alone for a moment just to give myself some thought.
“I shouldn’t be thinking too much about this. I’m sure Niko is happier there.” I assured myself.
I went to get some bread, jam and peanut butter to make a PB&J sandwich. I opened a cabinet and to my luck, all the things I needed were there. I took the ingredients with my magic and made the sandwich. The smell that came from the sandwich was mesmerizing.
“Dang, hope this thing tastes as good as it smells.” I said to myself with high hopes for the sandwich.
Suddenly, Twilight came into the kitchen and startled me. As a result, I dropped my sandwich onto the floor face down. I was the most disappointed in my whole entire life. I slowly turned to Twilight and looked at her with my disappointment.
“Oh, I am so sorry about that, Shock. I’ll make it up for you. I’ll prepare my best breakfast dish.”
She tried to make up for her actions but even she knows that it’s too late now. My heart was already broken into a million pieces.I sat down at the table with full disappointment in my face. After awhile, Twilight placed a dish onto the table.
“There you go. I used a secret recipe the princess told me.”
Twilight said to me as she sat at the other side of the table. She waited for me to eat the food. It kinda looked like mashed potatoes but I couldn’t really tell for sure. I picked up the spoon with my magic and took a bite. My eyes widened as my tastebuds were showered with glorious flavour. The flavours reminded me of my sweet childhood with my mom and dad back at the farm. A drop of tear came down my eyes as I cherished the memories.
“Shock, are you okay?” She asked me.
“Th.. Thank you, Twilight,” I said to her, “Thank you for this wonderful dish.”
The dish made me feel like a little child again. A little child in the wrapped arms of their parents. I finished the dish savouring every single bite of it.
“No problem. It’s the least I can do.” She said to me.”But why are you crying?”
“It’s hard to explain,” I replied to her. ”Let’s just say that this dish is very amazing.”
“Thank you, Shock. Though it is the princess’ recipe.” She said to me.
“Tell her it’s wonderful.” I asked Twilight to thank the princess for such a wonderful recipe.
“Will do if given the opportunity.” She said as she stood up, “I’m going to go do some chores.”
“I’ll help in a minute. I just need some time to relax.”
I sat back and remembered my childhood. The nostalgia was killing me. After a while, I stood up and went to help Twilight with her work. As soon as I exited the kitchen, Electric came down the stairs while scratching the back of his head.
“Hey man, did anypony made breakfast?” Electric asked me, “I’m kinda starving.”
“There’s some bread and jam. Go make a sandwich or something.” I said to him.
“Fine.” Electric said as he entered the kitchen.
I shook my head while smiling and continued to help Twilight. Maybe I should take a break or find a new job. Not that I hate it here, It’s just that I want a little bit more adventure in my life. Maybe someday.