Chapter 6: Screwing it up
After Dave left I turned back to Twilight. She seemed a little worried.
“I really feel bad for him.” She stated. “He really seems to miss his world.”
“You have no idea...” I thought when I thought about Dave’s crush on Rainbow Dash.
“I think we should...go now. Right, Discord?”
The draconequus just nodded. Twilight looked like she wanted to answer something, but remained silent. So we left. Even though I couldn’t see her, I felt her look following me.
Outside, Discord asked me:
“It’s really not that good at the moment, huh? Between you and Twilight, I mean.”
I nodded and sighed.
“It wouldn’t be a problem, if she would just...accept you...”
“Maybe I should just...move away...to Canterlot or something. I don’t want to destroy your relationship, after all you did for me.” He said, with a caring look.
I looked at him with a sad smile.
“He really has changed. He really proves that he wants to be a better person.”
“No, Discord! You’re staying here. You deserve it.” I said confidently. “Twilight will get over it.”
We both smiled.
“But seriously, we need to find away, how to make them other Ponies like you. And I already have an idea.”
“That would be?”
“You’re going to meet...Pinkie Pie.” I suggested.
“And how should that help?” He asked.
“Think of it: Pinkie wants to be friends with everypony. She’s the best Pony to start with, and by the way, you can gain bonus points by summoning chocolate rain.”
“True that.”
So we went to Sugarcube corner to find our favourite Party-Pony. The welcome wasn’t quite as expected: When we entered the confectionery, a cake landed right on my face.
“What the-?”
“Stay back! I have cakes! Lots of them.” Pinkie yelled.
“Pinkie, please, it’s not how-“
*splash*
Another cake had just landed in Discord’s face. He wiped it off, then grinned.
“Oh, it’s on then.”
“Please no...”
Unnecessary to mention, that a massive cake fight began. When they finally ran out of cake, the whole place was a sugar massacre.
Pinkie wiped the cake out of her face with her tongue.
“Mhmmm...chocolate. Declicious. What exactly did you want to tell me?”
*facehoof*
“...I just wanted you to meet Discord. The new Discord.”
Pinkie bounced up to us and shook Discord’s hand (claw?).
“Hi, new Discord. What happened to the old one? I’m Pinkie Pie by the way.”
*facehoof* again
“Pinkie could I-“
Discord sushed me.
“Let me explain, Xenos.” He turned to Pinkie. “As you know, I’m Discord, former spirit of chaos and disharmony. I’m back from my stone prison, because I wanted to change my life and make friends and Xenos here...” He pointed at me. “...thought, that you were the best Pony to start with.” He finished and took a deep breath.
Pinkie glared at him, then beamed at us.
“I would loooove to be your friends, now that you aren’t a big old meanie anymore. And do you know what I do for my friends? I throw a PARTYYYYY.” Pinkie babbled.
I smiled.
“That’s settled the-“ I started but was interrupted, by somepony screaming.
“Why can’t you just let me finish my sentences???”
I looked around and saw Mrs. Cake staring at the mess in her confectionery. Then she glared at furiously glared at us.
“WHAT. HAVE. YOU. DONE???”
“Oh, Mrs Cake. Xenos and his friend new Discord came here and I thought Discord was a meanie, but he actually isn’t, and so we started a cake fight and now we’re friends.” Pinkie beamed.
I noticed Mrs. Cake’s eyelid twitch and slowly backed off.
“This can’t be good.”
“YOU ARE GOING TO CLEAN ALL THIS UP!” She shouted.
I saw Discord making a calming gesture.
“Allow me to fix this.”
He clicked his fingers, and suddenly...everything was cleaned up. All the cakes ‘repaired’ and back where they belonged.
Mrs Cake’s face was priceless.
“I- I- guess, that’s settled then...” She stuttered.
She still stared at Discord, who somehow had summoned a cup of tea, which he was slowly sipping at.
“So now that this is-“
“EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!”
“What now?!”
Suddenly a blue Pony I didn’t know, bursted into the room and started stammering:
“Outside the town...monsters...manticore...the guy with the wings...HELP!”
“Dave what have you done?” I thought.
“Discord! Quick! Dave is in trouble.”
We busted out of the pastry shop and headed in the direction the other Ponies were fleeing from.
Switch to Dave
I am running through Ponyville being chased by a manticore, but then I hear somepony yell something. “DAVE! YOU HAVE WINGS! USE THEM!” Wait was that Xenos? Oh and thanks for the tip.
I fly up in the air and the manticore gets confused while I land behind its back, let’s get hacking? I pull out my sword, and hack at the manticore’s tail only to get knocked away by a big paw. “Ouch.” I say as I get tossed straight into a building.
The manticore charges at me and I dodge him while trying to slash him with my sword, I hit it but I immediately feel like I lost a ton of power, ok what is happening here? It body slams me to the ground. I grunt and it hops off me and I roll away and get up again. I’m starting to feel like this was a bad idea. It swings its paw at me again and I dodge it easily and swing my sword at its back side only to lose even more of my capacity. What is happening? It slams its claw at my face and I fly into a barrel and get knocked unconscious.
Switch to Rainbow Dash
“What happened? Why is everypony panicking?” Rainbow thought.
She dashed off into the direction eyerypony was fleeing from. Then she saw it. This strange Dave-guy was fighting...a manticore!
“Don’t tell me he’s really that stupid...”
Dave attempted to strike the manticore with his strange sword, but barely dealt any damage and was immediately knocked into a...barrel by the beast.
“He’s an idiot, but we have to save him...and the town too.”
Rainbow flew closer and yelled:
“COME ON, EVERYPONY! WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER ON THIS! WE NEED TO GET THE MANTICORE OUT OF HERE, FOLLOW MY LEAD.”
She flew down and tried to attract the manticore’s attention by shouting at it. Eventually the monster desisted from Dave and headed towards her. Rainbow turned around and rocketed to the forest. The manticore followed her for some time, but then stopped and turned on...Ditzy!
“DITZY, RUN FOR THE FOREST!” Rainbow shouted.
The grey Pegasus nodded and...flew straight into a tree.
Rainbow facehoofed. What did she expect? But how could she save Ditzy now?
The manticore was just about two rip her in two with his deadly claw, when he was suddenly struck by a brief lightning bolt. Rainbow looked around and saw Xenos running at the manticore with a glowing horn, continuing to fire lightnings. The manticore didn’t seem to be vers impressed by the lightning strikes, but rather annoyed. It launched at the unicorn stallion, who immediately jumped aside and headed for the forest.
Rainbow decided to use the distraction and bucked the manticore right in the face. Apparently this knocked the beast out.
As soon as it hit the ground, Applejack and her brother Big Macintosh approached the monster and tied it up with some strong ropes.
Finally Xenos used his levitation magic to lift the manticore and carry him deeper into the forest, where they untied it.
The monster didn’t seem too eager for a fight anymore and quickly escaped into the bushes.
When they got back to town, everypony cheered. Usually Rainbow Dash would enjoy this moment, but she was too angry at this Dave-guy at the moment. What was he thinking?
“This guy seriously needs a kick in the flank.”
Switch to Dave
Ouch, what happened? I was fighting a manticore. Oh god did I get knocked out? I open my eyes to see Dash walking towards me with an angry expression. “What happened? I don’t remember.” She says nothing, she only slaps me right in the face and walks off. “Don’t even THINK of talking to me again.”
Oh god what have I done? I feel terrible now. That really hurt, not only my face but also my soul. I begin to sob as I sit there in the rubble, not caring if anypony sees me or whatever happens to me, WHY? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SEND ME HERE!? I HATE YOU! Why? Was my earth life not bad enough? I had finally gotten friends and maybe a girl and then YOU FUCKING SEND ME AWAY!? I guess I should be happy for even being in Equestria at all, but I just can’t not with THIS happening! Why did I have to do that? Why am I such an idiot all the time? I should probably just go and jump off a cliff before I hurt anypony else, wait who’s that voice? “Dave, what were you thinking, for Celestia’s sake?” Xenos?
“I-I-I’m so sorry.” I sob forth.
He sighs. “We should probably get you back to my place, shall we?” I just continue to sob. “Discord, can you help me here?”
“Of course.” And as fast as he snaps his fingers we are back in Xenos house and I’m just lying on the floor continuing to sob. “Dave, calm down! What happened, happened. We can’t change that anymore” I sniff.
“Yeah, Dave. Just calm down and tell us what happened. I Promise we won’t get mad.” I sniff again.
“Yeah right, you are just going to slap me like RD did.” Then Xenos puts on a ‘bossy’ tone.
“Now you listen to me Dave, we are your friends and we will not be angry at you just tell us what happened.”
I nod and start telling them what happened all from me going to Dash’s house to being in the rubble. “Now what made you think, that would be a good idea, Dave?”
“I don’t know, I tell you! It was the dumbest thing I have ever done and I would do anything to change it.” *Dave are you there? Hello! Can you hear me?* Wait, which one are you? *The one who didn’t send you off, I’m here to get you back. Why is that guy such an idiot trying to send you off to a place I don’t know about?* I can go home? *Yes.* My heart lights up as the morning sun.
“Uhm, Dave what are you doing?” Xenos asks.
Discord speaks up:
“I heard it, and well let’s say it’s like this, he can go home now.” I am so fucking happy you would not believe it. *Wait let me check your memory here. Oh god, why did you do those things?* Please don’t remind me, I just want to forget it. *Sure thing, I won’t mention them again.* Thank you.
“Dave that’s great! You can finally go home now.”
“Yeah, I am really happy about this.” I have one question though. *What would that be?* Why haven’t you found me earlier. *I did not know about your disappearance until this morning and I must say it’s tiring going through worlds just to find you.* I’m happy that you did.
“So that means goodbye?” They both say.
“I guess so, it has been nice knowing you two.” They smile and we all hug, Bromance hug FTW! *Do you want to keep contact with Xenos here?* Wait, I could do that? *Yes, you would be able to send letters and I would be able to take them and send them, sadly there would be a delay, sometimes this stuff can become slow.* That does not matter, as long as we can keep contact. “Do you know what I just heard?” I ask as we release the hug. Xenos looks at me. “I just got to know that we would be able to keep contact through letters. The only thing you need to do is send yours through Discord and I should get them. As for you to get my letters well they will just appear in front of you.”
“That would be great. It seems like we didn’t have much time to get to know each other. It would be nice to have a human friend after all.”
We all hug again. I am ready. *Ask them to back off.* Ok. “Please back off, I’m getting teleported, I will miss your friendliness Xenos and I hope to hear from you soon.” He nods and everything goes white and next thing I realise is that I’m standing inside Twilight’s tree again. All my friends are there and gaze at me for a moment. Then they all jump at me and hug me. I also notice Dash snuggling against me.
“It feels great to be home again.”
END OF CHAPTER 6
Author's note: So that's it with the crossover. As you read, there will be some sort of letter-friendship between Dave and Xenos, but nothing more. No crossover again (at least I think so). Back to nowrmal then.