In the pine forests outside the village, Adam, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie ran towards the nearby caves that held everyone's cutie mark.
Little did the human and five mares knew, but they were being observed by several of Starlight Glimmer's loyal supports through binoculars. "They are heading towards the caves ma'am, just like you said." said one stallion.
"Of course they are," she smirked. "get the big mortar gun, and make sure our guest of honor has the best view." Starlight ordered as she looked back at her latest prisoner; a tied up, gagged and caged Fluttershy. "I want her to get ring side seats to the fun show coming up." she chuckled.
Fluttershy let out a muffled scream through the ball gag blocking her mouth.
Chapter XXXII
The Village
As Adam and the five mares ran, everyone quickly stopped in their tracks as they heard the sound of something explode in the distance, followed by a whirling sound. "Adam, what was that?" asked a confused Twilight.
The human's eyes went wide from the realization that dawned on him. "I should have kept my mouth shut about my world." he muttered. Before anyone could react, a loud explosion blew everyone away from the sheer unexpected force. Adam found himself slightly dazed on the ground but quickly got up. "RUN!" he yelled.
All the mares tried to get up but were knocked back down by another blast wave as a second projectile landed near them. "What in tarnation?!" exclaimed Applejack with confusion.
"Let's go, quick!" ordered the human. Be began to sprint down before a cannonball whipped past him and went through a tall pine tree ahead of him, it completely severed the trunk causing the tree to fall down towards him. "Timber!"
The human and the mares did their best to dodge out of the way in their confused state and the tree fell to the ground hard. "AHHH!" a voice screamed. Everyone turned to the source to see that it came from Twilight who had her back left leg pinned down by the tree. "Twilight!" yelled Adam as he quickly tried to push the tree off, but it was too thick and heavy for it to budge.
"Can't you teleport out of this?" asked the human.
Twilight panted in pain. "Hurts...too much..." she grunted. "can't...concentrate..."
The unicorn's friends were about to join in and help, but they quickly found themselves surrounded by several villagers with spears. "So what do we do now Adam?" asked Dash who wanted permission to fight them off.
Adam was not a fool, he knew it would be pointless to confront them. "Surrender." was all he said as he lifted his arms in the air.
Starlight confidently sat on her makeshift throne in front of her home as she saw her loyal citizens drag in Adam and his five pony friends. They unceremoniously pushed them to the dirt before Starlight. "Well, well, well," began Starlight with contempt. "so this is how you repay me for giving you intimate companionship," she walked over to the human and gave him a swift kick to the stomach, he immediately curled up from the pain. "TREASON?!"
"Leave him alone Starlight!" snarled Twilight to the leader. "It's not him you want, it's me!" she wanted to take the brunt of the fighting to protect the human she cares for.
"Not anymore Miss Sparkle, I know you're just saying that to protect your precious human that you have the hots for, stop denying it." the mare pointed out. "Besides, I think I have a better bargaining chip that'll make your human's blood boil." she chuckled before she motioned her associates to drag in a cage. The five mares and the human looked on in shock and horror to see Fluttershy bound and gagged in the cage.
"Fluttershy..." muttered Adam in shock, he could see the yellow pegasus give him a pleading look, her eyes screamed 'help me'. His blood boiled with simmering rage. "Let her go..." he said through clenched teeth.
"Why?" Starlight said skeptically. "Because the human still cares about his pathetic excuse for a marefriend?" she chuckled. "Look at her, she can barely put up a fight." an evil idea suddenly came up Starlight's mind. She made a huge grin at the thought. "Which makes her the perfect victim to what I have in mind." she quickly nodded over to a group of ponies.
Adam was confused but was suddenly grabbed tight and held by several strong ponies. "What the-?!"
Starlight's horn glowed and Adam felt his body relax despite the fact he did not do so consciously. "You can let him go now, I got it from here." she smirked. The ponies did as told and let the human go, yet strangely, the human did nothing, he was stiff, he could not move himself.
"What's going on?" he said through clenched teeth.
"Dance my puppet, dance!" snarled a craze Starlight as Adam was suddenly forced to stand up and dance.
"What are you doing?!" demanded the human who's body began to dance on its own. He could not control himself.
The mare just laughed evilly. She then used her magic to release Fluttershy from her cage, still bound but the gag removed. "You'll see." she said ominously. She dragged the human over to the yellow pegasus, who was scared.
Adam tried to fight off the spell, but it was too strong, he suddenly found himself in front of Fluttershy. "No!" he screamed.
"Starlight stop this!" pleaded Twilight who knew fully well what Starlight was attempting to do. "We promise to leave you alone, just stop this!"
"Shut up bitch, we're doing thing my way now!" spat the crazed mare. She then forced Adam's hands to wrap around Fluttershy's neck.
"Fluttershy...help..." begged the human, his eyes filled with pain.
Fluttershy looked up at him with pity and acceptance at what was going to happen. "I forgive you Adam...I really do...just be strong for me." the pegasus mare pleaded.
"Fluttershy...no..." he grunted as he tried to fight it.
"If I die, I die, just promise me that you'll move on and find somepony else..." she pleaded with assurance. "Just promise me that." she said with assurance. "It'll be okay." she comforted.
Adam looked on with shame. "Fluttershy...I lo-" before he could complete the sentence and loud snap was heard followed by the mare's body going limp in his hands. "NO!!" he screamed through clenched teeth as tears of pain flowed from his eyes.
Starlight cackled at the sight. "She was no good for you Adam, she was a weakling, a wimp, a shrieking violet, a pussy." explained the mare without remorse. "Why would you ever love a mare who could die of a panic attack at any moment."
Adam's blood boiled with anger. He began to grunt angrily as adrenaline began to flow in his body, giving him strength to slowly break free of Starlight's grasp. "You...bitch..." he growled. "You...killed...her!" he slowly let Fluttershy go and forced himself up despite still being under control.
"Hey, I didn't tell you to stand." she felt the human become harder to control. "You're supposed to be in complete control!" she said with shock.
He slowly but surely forced himself towards Starlight, he let his inner rage give him strength. "I've lost...too many...lovers...you crazy bitch!" he snarled. "You...will...die!"
Starlight began to step back. "Stay back human! I can kill you!"
"Bring it!" he dared. To Starlight's shock, the human stood before her.
"How did you...?!"
"Rage!" was all Adam said as he forced his hand on Starlight's horn, which immediately caused Starlight to collapse on the ground with a loud moan.
"Oh sweet Celestia!" she screamed with pleasure as her body went limp and began to squirm. "No fair!" her horn began to glow even more the longer Adam held on to it. He saw Starlight writhe around the ground, her hind legs crossed shut to hide her excitement. The mare tried to fight it. "Must not...let him...win..." she grunted between moans. "AHHH!" she screamed with anger as a massive beam of magic it Adam square in the chest and blasted him through a nearby shop window.
Adam slowly got up, he was fine apart from a few cuts from the broken glass. He looked out the broken window to see an angry Starlight running towards him. He quickly ran to the back of the store to hide.
"Come out come out wherever you are you fancy monkey!" Starlight snarled as she walked into the store. She slowly walked around, looking for him. "I thought we had something good happening."
"You used me!" the human yelled from the back of the store. Starlight happily followed his voice.
"Okay, so I did use you." she flat out admitted. "That's true, but how else was I going to keep you around?" she explained. "Besides, haven't you ever fantasized about having your own little mareum that you fuck with almost daily, be a sex god among ponies, like all males do?"
"I am far too mature for that Miss Glimmer." yelled the human back, still hidden.
"I do know you fantasize about Twilight Sparkle more often than your supposed marefriend Fluttershy." she pointed out. "You talk in your sleep."
"Go to hell!" he yelled before jumped out from behind a corner a swung a cast iron skillet at the mare, the mare instincively dodged it but the skillet ended up hitting her horn instead, chipping off the entire tip.
Starlight gave a blood curdling scream from the intense pain, followed by a massive spark of magic emanating from the broken horn. She became extremely angry and gave the human a dirty look. "Why you little..." she lunged at the human, but he dodged and kneed her on the chest. "Ooof!" she grunted as she fell to the floor. Adam took that as his cue to run out of the store.
The unicorn, out of force of habit, tried to fire a beam of magic at the human, but was instead blown away in the opposite direction from the discharge. Without her horn complete, her magic cannot be controlled.
Rain started to fall as Adam ran back to the crowd and his friends. He looked back to see the entire store explode with a wave of magic followed by a scream of rage. Everyone looked back to see Starlight slowly walk out of the ruble with anger. Adam walked out in front of the crowd, ready to face Starlight head to head.
"Adam, let us help!" pleaded Twilight with worry.
"This is between me and Starlight, Twilight!" he exclaimed. "I, and I alone, will avenge Fluttershy, so stay out of this!" he snarled. He quickly turned his attention to Starlight as the rain began to downpour. A stand-off.
Little did Starlight knew, but the rain began to wash away her fake equals sign cutie mark to reveal that she did indeed have her cutie mark. "The cutie mark was fake?!" murmured the crowd with shock. "She's a fraud!" "We've been deceived."
Starlight did not care, she had more important matters to deal with. With a scream of rage, both the human and the mare lunged at each other and tackled each other to the muddy floor. Everyone looked on with stunned silence as the opponents wrestled each other in the mud, both tried to overpower their opponent. Adam kicked the mare away, quickly got up and got into a bare knuckle fighting stance. Starlight gleefully took the bait and ran at him, but the human immediately punched her in the face, causing her to fall back down to the mood.
Adam quickly ran up to her and kicked her hard in the stomach. "That was for sexually abusing me!" he snarled as he kicked her again. "That was for killing Fluttershy!" he kicked again. "That was for bearing false witness against your followers!" he then went down and began to push the mare's face into the mud. "And this is for being a horrible pony!" he screamed with rage as he pushed her deeper into the mud. He could feel the mare begin to struggle, trying to breathe.
"Adam stop!" interject Twilight. Adam looked up to see that Twilight did not approve. The realization of what he was doing dawned on him. He quickly let Starlight go and stood up with shame. Without a word, he walked up to Twilight with shame and hugged her tightly, breaking down with tears. The purple pegasus held him back to comfort him.
Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie joined in on the hug as well. Silently comforting the human that won a Pyrrhic victory.
At the same time, Starlight slowly got up while she coughed up some mud. She looked up to see the angry faces of all the ponies she has lied too for a long time. "Uh...I can explain..." she nervously laughed.
After the rain cleared, a dozen Royal Guards arrived, as requested by Twilight, and arrested Starlight Glimmer. After Starlight was placed inside a cage inside a flying paladin, Twilight walked up to her. "What do you want?!" Starlight hissed with contempt.
"I just want to know why." said Twilight.
"Why what?" she raised an eyebrow.
"Why you did all of this," pointed out the lavender unicorn. "why you brainwashed an entire town of ponies, too advantage of my friend, and killed one of MY best friends as well, why would you do all of this?" she could not comprehend a pony doing all the twisted things Starlight had done.
"Like I would ever tell a goody four shoes that." she said defiantly. "You may have won, but at least I managed to do what I set out to do...hurt you." she laughed evilly as the paladin lifted off the ground and flew away.
Twilight just gave a sigh as another group of guards arrived if everyone's cutie marks in jars. The entire town gathered around them as the guards opened the jars one at a time, causing the marks to fly back to their original owners. Twilight walked over to Adam who sat next to Fluttershy's covered body. "You're a hero Adam." she said to reassure him.
"But at what cost?" was all Adam said without emotion.
Adam arrived at his home in Ponyville the next day, he barely spoke a word since he left Starlight's village, what is the point? He walked inside to see everything left exactly the way he left it. It was quiet.
A knock broke the silence and Adam looked to see a pony standing in front of the open door; a green coated mare with red dreadlocks. "Like, Fluttershy wanted me to give you this should you ever, like, come back." she said to him as she showed him an envelope.
Adam took it without saying a word.
"Oh, and she wanted me to give you this, should she die." she then gave Adam a pink book. "It's her diary, she wanted you to have it."
The human took the diary. "...thanks..." was all he said before he went upstairs.
He sat down on his bed and opened the letter. It was a message from Fluttershy to him, written before she came to the village. He began to silently read it.
Dear Adam,
I'm writing this because I have a feeling this will be my last chance I have to say this to you. I am sorry if I failed you as a marefriend, maybe it was not meant to work out between us after all. Well, just wanted to let you know that shortly before the gala, me and Twilight talked about possibly forming a herd with you, managed to get to know each other intimately in preparation for it. But this point I am trying to make is that there's another mare out there that is your one true love, and that is Twilight. She'll make a much better marefriend for you than I could ever be, she's smart like you, enjoys many of the same things like you, and she's pretty like you.
Adam, I write this to you to tell you that I have decided to let you go, to let you go off and be free and be with any mare you want. Please, if you do care for me, do what I tell you and be free. I don't care if you end up with Twilight or have sex with a random mare each night, I just want you to move on and be with somepony better. I love you enough to know that it's best to let you go. Adam, thank you for making these last few months together a magical experience, thank you for making my first time amazing, thank you for helping me gain confidence in myself. Now please, go out there and be free, for not only my sake, but for yours as well.
Twilight is waiting for you, and she'll be there when you're ready to be with her. Just like you, she likes to experiment as well. So for the last time, thank you for everything and I hope we can remain good friends after all of this.
With love and caring,
Fluttershy
Adam crumpled up the letter and threw it across the room in a mixture of anger and sadness. He broke down in tears from losing another loved one. All the good memories he had of her were shattered. "I'm sorry..." he mumbled to himself. "I'm sorry I hurt you enough for you to say that..." he continued. "...I'm sorry I failed..."
Another knock on the door interrupted him, he cleaned away his tears and walked back down the stairs. He opened the door to reveal Twilight Sparkle herself.
"Oh hey Twilight." he said with the best smile he could muster. "What brings you here?"
"I think I may have found a way to bring Fluttershy back." she explained. "There's a legend of a cave somewhere in Equestria that houses a very wise sage that can make wishes come true and-"
"NO!" he snapped. "No, okay, just no."
"But...don't you want Fluttershy back?" she was stunned.
"I do," he explained. "I do want her back, but she does not." he admitted. "I know about the meeting you had with her the day before the gala." he pointed out.
Twilight was completely shocked. "You know?"
"Yeah, the fact that you agreed to start a herd with me behind my back." he explained with annoyance. "And the you had an affair with her that day as well."
"We were going to tell you after the gala, but then the whole Discord thing and-"
"SHE LET ME GO TWILIGHT!" he yelled with anger at the unicorn.
"...what...?" was all she could muster from the shock of the news.
"She let me go so you can have me, the man you died for countless times..." he muttered.
"Fluttershy came to me to start a herd because she knew that I had feelings for you, and she wanted to help a friend. I agreed because she was insistent on the idea, I couldn't let a friend in need down." she explained with shame. "I truly didn't know that she gave up on you like that..."
"Well, now you do..." was all the human said with contempt.
Without a word, Twilight just reluctantly and sadly walked away. She did not want to provoke him any further.
Adam slammed the door shut and let you a scream of anger. Maybe he was never meant to find true love?
At an alleyway in the middle of Canterlot, a caribou stag walked towards a tall pony in a cloak. He stared her down to make sure the pony was his contact. "The sun is awfully warm during the summer..."
"...because it is closest to the planet." completed the cloaked pony. The stag removed his hood to reveal an older and more war weary Sasha, the one of the greatest snipers to ever live and very decorated at that, but his achievements became useless and forgotten after the male dominated kingdom fell. He's now a relic of a bygone era.
"You have the money?" dryly asked the Sasha.
The pony levitated a large bag and opened it to reveal a large stack of bonds. "Do you accept Equestrian bearer bonds?" the pony asked with a feminine voice.
"What's the interest?"
"10 percent." the pony answered as she threw the bag at him. "Now answer me this question, are you willing to do this mission?"
"You broke me out of jail and then promised to give me a full pardon and a comfortable retirement with all the females I can fuck?" he asked rhetorically. "Of course I am, what's the mission?"
The pony removed her hood to reveal Princess Celestia herself. "Let's just say I have a monkey problem to deal with." she said ominously with seriousness in her face.
If this doesn't work, then she'll be forced to take matters into her own hooves.
To Be Continued...