//------------------------------// // Chapter 14, More Reeling // Story: The Chronicles of Summer Rain, Vol. 12 -- Sweep of Time // by shysage //------------------------------// Shysage and I were both holding hands and crying as we walked out of the Portal at the Equestria Girls world end. And that same tune had followed us here too...[1] It might have been a little louder, I don't know. It was not the most reassuring tune to hear constantly just now... And since we did not have the small but amazing statue of Princess Luna that Cel (Princess Celestia) in the Past had tried to give us, there had been essentially no change in our situation here in our present. We were still fugitives, and had no clue why we were being treated like this. I guess I am not sure how much difference that statue would have made. Well I had no clue... We had no clue about anything... It looked like early morning here in the Equestria Girls world. We were both still very apprehensive about anypony important seeing us, and so we quickly walked away from the Portal, away from Canterlot High School. Holding hands, still crying softly, we walked down the broad sidewalk, away from the front of the school. Shysage didn't need to tell me where we were going. The only place we could go right now was Shysage's cubical, his small, white shack where his family had ultimately abandoned him, to die for all they cared. It was our only sanctuary here. It was small, but perfect for my Stallion and I. We would probably cry a long time, then calm down and try to decide what to do next. And just maybe... I also realized that we could get into Shysage's big blue car and just drive away, I don't know... I think the further away from CHS we walked, the calmer we both became. Compared to Equestria, the Equestria Girls world is huge, and has far more people. What Princess Celestia had done in Equestria (in our present), well that mattered less here. Maybe our precious and treasured Equestria Girls friends had heard nothing about what happened, and so... The tyranny of schoolwork seemed to march quickly onward here anyway. Still, if there was a problem between us and the Equestria Girls, here, we would need to find that out at some-- Rounding the corner to the cubical... I felt... I ran... Equestria Girls Fluttershy and Shyna were sitting on the top step to Shysage's cubical, crying, but got up quickly as I ran up to them... Fluttershy, Shyna, Shysage and I... We all hugged tightly, and cried quietly for an hour at least... Nopony tried to say anything. There was really nothing to say... We just cried... Three months... Not even family could... Seeing, feeling the pain around us, not just ours... More reeling... That pain flowed here too... It was clear after that hour that we all needed to talk some, so we worked on calming down. My sister's Twin, Equestria Girls Futtershy spoke first, and said timidly, quietly, sniffling "Twilight Sparkle told us girls we needed to tell her if we see either of you... So... I'm not opening my eyes..." She still had them tightly shut. I just moved right next to her, and hugged her tightly. Fluttershy started crying again, and I guess we all did... Another hour... At some point during that hour, a police car pulled slowly up the alley to where we stood. The officer rolled his window down. "Everything ok here?" he asked hesitantly. Shyna replied right away, as best as she could, "Family from far away..." The police car was on its way and gone. After two hours, I guess we all realized... We needed to calm down, so we did. I had no intention of asking who or what, especially with my sensitive sister around. Fluttershy would want to tell me everything I asked, then feel terrible if she had promised not to. Or she would feel terrible, and just not say anything. We found out later that something like this was the case here too, so this approach worked well. I just hugged my hurting Sis... Evidently Equestria Girls Shyna had to make no such promises, and felt differently; she quickly voiced that. "For the record, I think some grown-up ponies are being so dumb..." She said this quietly, and I knew Fluttershy was not happy either; she just sighed. Still, this was the end of Shyna's venting, I don't know. But Shyna wasn't done talking. "Shysage, do you have a plan?" I didn't, couldn't say anything. I had no clue... about anything... I just looked over at Shysage. He returned my gaze, and said quietly, to me really. "Summer and I are still working on that." Shyna replied quickly "Well, let us know if there is anything we can do to help. I'm sure Filia and Fiona will help too if needed." It was quiet for a few minutes. Without opening her eyes, Equestria Girls Fluttershy said quietly "I think we need to go pet fluffies." Maybe it was a school holiday, I don't know. I hugged my Equestria Girls Sis tightly. I was hoping I could say something to give her some hope, some encouragement -- I could have used that too, but no words came... But I pulled Shyna into our hug. A few minutes later, Fluttershy and Shyna walked off together, still sniffling... Shysage and I hugged tightly and sniffled ourselves as we watched them walk off. And, knowing that everything was playing out here in the Equestria Girls world, just like it seemed to be in Equestria, Shysage and I were now very uncomfortable standing outside, in the open like this. Somepony important might see us here too. Shysage quickly found the hidden key, and he and I disappeared inside his cubical. The first thing I did, I looked longingly at his bed, our bed. Well, now was just not the time. I would wait patiently. In the middle of what he was doing, Shysage just said softly "I know, Mare..." Maybe he felt the same way. I love my Stallion so much... The first thing Shysage did was find the loaner cell phone, and plug the charger thing in. He let it charge a few minutes, then he did something and it sprang to life. I guess he understands this stuff. Still, he leaned against the high bed, and pulled me close with one of his arms as he held the cell in his other hand. I leaned my head on his shoulder, and tried to relax. My Stallion's embrace has always been so comforting to me, since that day so long ago when he rescued me from monsters... But I could also see the front face of the cell phone, and the constantly changing pictures it showed. And I soon saw what Shysage was doing... Text messages... A few older texts from our last visit, he ignored. But a whole string, more recently, from Twilight Sparkle "Are you there?" I guess that was their way of posting a guard at Shysage's cubical... Then just yesterday, from my Twin, Equestria Girls Summer Rain... Somehow she had heard... And it just seemed so unfair to her... again... Maybe this is the fourth time she thought I was dead or something... That just seemed so harsh... Her text said simply "Oh thank goodness you are alive..." At the same time, Shysage and I both realized we needed to text her back. Well, I really, really love my Twin... We both do. He and I talked briefly, and we wanted to keep it short, because we didn't know if she was around anypony important or not... And it needed to reflect both of us, so her husband, my Shysage's Twin would also know. This is what Shysage typed in. "Both safe, here, working on a plan. Ask true friend..." After reading that, I shut my eyes tight, and just cried... Shysage sent the text, then put the cell on the bed, and pulled me into a tight hug. We both wept softly together, hugging tightly, and waited. A few minutes later, the cell made a quiet noise, and Shysage quickly pulled up the reply. "Thanks, Summer crying, we had no way of knowing. Took family out of town for a breather, and will do." The cell was soon back on the bed, and Shysage and I hugged and cried some more. I really wanted our daughter Ariel now... Shysage and my family... Maybe Shysage did as well; we cried for a while more. Shysage's crying trailed off though, so I tried to calm down too. "Summer, are you hungry?" Shysage asked this quietly, and I only then realized I was very hungry. I laid my head back on Shysage's shoulder and said quietly "Take me to get a burger, Stallion." Wow, I love this man... While I worked on calming down the rest of the way, Shysage did a few things to his big, older blue car, "big blue", sitting calmly in the carport next to his cubical. He worked under the hood mostly, then started it up. It was soon running, sounding just like I remembered. This was, is our car... After grabbing some cash from the stash, and the wallet in there too, we were soon locking up the cubical and outside again. I did look briefly at the smaller, white car deeper in the carport, behind big blue. That would need to wait too. But when Shysage opened his door, I didn't even wait, I climbed enthusiastically in and crawled quickly to the other side, long flowing dress and all. Well, I would sit in the middle, right next to Shysage while he drove. Another seat-belt in the center of the seat makes that legal. And, well, I love my Stallion! Married people, who go places in their car, sitting at opposite ends of the front seat... I don't know... But I see that a lot here I think... I don't pay much attention when Shysage drives. He knows where we are going and I don't worry about that. Watching hundreds of cars dart about really scared me at first. But from deep inside Shysage's big car... It keeps everything at a safe distance for me. I realized that we were heading away from CHS though, and I sighed at this thought. I won't say what hamburgers are made from, but boy do they taste good! I really was hungry and ate all of mine, and a bunch of fries. Shysage did the same. Well, just a week ago maybe, we were starving to death, hoping for rations in that freezing jail cell... I shivered, and Shysage felt that. He was right next to me anyway, and we hugged briefly. We paid for our yummy meal, Shysage refilled his soda, and we were on our way. Like I said, I don't pay too much attention when Shysage drives, but I did recognize this route. We were heading to the beach! We had our nice Equestria Girls clothing on, and Shysage had thrown two white sweatshirts into the back seat before we left. I think he was planning on this all along. It was the middle of the winter, but a warmish day with little wind. The sun was high. It would be such an amazing break... On the way to the beach, Shysage focused on driving, but probably looked at me in the rear mirror thing more than he should have. I smiled when I caught him doing that. I am his Mare! But I tried to mentally work through some options... Why were we being treated like this? All we had done was try and help Equestria, help those around us every chance we got. We confronted evil and bad for what it was, I don't know -- who would have a problem with that? And we never crammed true fried down anyponies' throat... Well, I came up with nothing. I had absolutely no idea. And I couldn't even come up with a way the statue of Princess Luna would help. It was like Equestria was showing us to the door... I heard one of the bleacher girls say that, and she explained it to me when I asked her. Those girls are always so patient with my million questions... But she explained what it means, and it was beginning to feel that way for us now, I don't know. What had we ever done... It was maybe mid-afternoon when Shysage pulled big blue into a parking spot at the beach. There were few here, maybe because it was the middle of winter. Shysage got our sweatshirts out, and helped me get mine on. I am still not the greatest working with these long arms! The sun was warm, and there was no breeze. With our nice Equestria Girls clothes and matching white sweatshirts on, we were very comfortable. We headed down to the water, then walked along the beach (in the wet sand because it was easier), hugging tightly, for the longest time. Little was said, I think we both needed time to just relax, and enjoy each other. Well, I was talking to true friend, asking him for wisdom. We didn't know what to do. After a while, Shysage found a flat rock, sat down, then pulled me into his lap. In his loving embrace, we just watched the waves together. Shysage sighed at one point, then said quietly "Snow Pony..." I was sort of in a daze, watching the waves come and go, and thought nothing of it. In Equestria it was winter too... And maybe we lost track of the time. It was later, the sun had tilted lower, and the cool wind picked up. Shysage and I got up and headed slowly back down the beach the way we had come. That took a while too. And Shysage had me move on the side of him away from the wind to help me stay warm. But we were both pretty cold when we climbed back into big blue. Shysage started the car, and we waited a few minutes for the heater to start working again, then we were on our way. We didn't drive far, Shysage took us to a small motel nearby. Soon enough, we were in our room and Shysage was turning the heater up, and the lights down. We weren't in Equestria... We weren't near CHS either. As that dawned on me, I sat down on the edge of the needlessly large bed, and just cried. Shysage was quickly next to me, hugging me, crying with me. I could only relax while far away from those ponies and people that I loved the most? That seemed so wrong... We cried together for a while. We cried our selves to sleep that night... [opt:btm12]