Silver was floated along as Twilight descended some steps, her wings fluttering lightly. She broke the silence, "I was very surprised when Luna gave leave to fully examine you. Celestia and Luna had been adamant about leaving you alone until now."
Silver felt less certain of his safety, but tried to have faith in his favorite librarian, "Hey, uh, I never got the chance to thank you much for the work you did for me in Manehattan."
Twilight waved a hoof dismissively, "No need to be sarcastic, I was in a rush."
Silver's ears fell, "I meant it. You took time out of your day to give it a shot, and everything worked out in the end."
Twilight paused in her advance, looking up at Silver, then continued forward, "They were right, you can compete with Fluttershy. I did very rough work that day and shouldn't be thanked for it." She pressed on a brick and the wall slid open where there was no door, permitting access to what appeared to be a dungeon, with more scientific equipment in it. She moved Silver onto an examination table and quickly had his hooves strapped in, "Comfy?"
Silver shook his head, "Would you be upset if I said not really?"
Twilight nudged the door shut then circled around Silver, "It's for your own safety. Now, let us review the given facts, and you can interrupt me if I'm wrong. You were born a human. You appreciated our culture through the limited view offered by your entertainment media. You are now a pony." She hiked a brow, "You are very sexually active."
Silver interrupted with a huff, "With only a select few. I'm not running around looking for mares."
Twilight waved a hoof lightly, "Most stallions settle for one mare, Mister Lining."
Silver flushed softly, "Silver Stars."
Twilight raised a brow, "Huh, I'll have to update my documents." And papers lifted from her saddlebag as she got right to work updating his name. "Now where were we. Ah, right, sexually active. You have a lopsided grasp of magic."
Silver tilted his head at her, "What do you mean?"
Twilight nodded her head, "How many spells have you created?"
Silver considered, "Entirely new, or new combinations?"
Twilight wobbled a hoof, "Good enough answer, now show me the magic alphabet."
Silver ran through the symbols, but was actually worse than his best, having long ago given up on the effort.
Twilight nodded, "I rest my case. Do you know how many spells I have created?"
Silver raised his brows, "A lot?"
Twilight thrust a hoof in the air, "One, and it was already mostly written for me."
Silver began to worry anew, "Are you, uh, I mean... I'm not trying to show off."
Twilight approached him from the side and lightly poked, "I'm not jealous. I'm curious! There's a lot about you I want to know about. So, are you a 'brony' as Jake self-identifies as?"
Silver nodded lightly, "The term fits well enough, as silly as it sounds when you're actually a pony."
Twilight nodded, making a scribble, "Who is best pony?"
Silver squinted. He decided Jake must have told her about that meme, and silently cursed his name. "You were always my favorite of the mane six."
Twilight flashed a smile, "You're just saying that!"
Silver shook his head, "I always identified with you, and your eager absorption of knowledge, and some of your, uh, social awkwardness."
Twilight snorted softly, "I do not have social awkwardness."
Silver didn't argue it, watching her silently from his prone position.
Twilight continued, "I would have thought you would have said Fluttershy. You have many traits in common with her. Acceptance of unacceptable behavior, extreme introversion, a massive desire to avoid conflict of any kind."
Silver grew warm and red as she spoke, wriggling, "Those are not traits I value, at least, not entirely. Your traits, for the most part, I do value."
Twilight tapped her chin softly a moment, "Fair enough." She spread her wings, "So you know how I got these?"
Silver nodded, "You finished the old spell from Star Swirl, undid the mixed-up cutie marks, and got destroyed. Celestia put you back together, with wings, and sent you back."
Twilight raised a brow, "That's a very condensed version, but essentially correct." She paced around Silver slowly, "If you knew all about me, and my friends, why didn't you approach us when you had the opportunity?"
Silver shrugged as best he could with his hooves still strapped down, "I was trying to respect you. You were living your own lives. Heck, you were in the middle of one of your adventures at the time and I didn't want to mess it up."
Twilight raised a brow, "Are we still living out the stories you saw?"
Silver shook his head, "Your defeat of Tirek was the last thing I knew for certain. I have no idea what's going to happen."
Twilight reared up, placing her forehooves on the edge of the table Silver was strapped to, "Fascinating! Now hold still a moment." She brought down what looked like a huge version of the colander with christmas lights she used on Pinkie Pie and lowered it to hover just above Silver's body.
She sat down and directed a beam of power at a curious-looking terminal nearby. The christmas lights began to flash and blink as Silver saw it emit Twilight's magic over him. He began to tingle and feel warm, but could do little about it. "So..." he began, "What are you looking for?"
Twilight gestured at the terminal, "I'm seeing how much human is left in you."
Silver raised a brow, "I can't imagine much, physically."
"Why theorize when we can just see?" countered Twilight with a patient smile. She walked over to the terminal, eyeing the squiggly lines and characters spilling out of it. "I must confess, I find it odd that you fit in as well as you do."
Silver snorted softly at that, "You must not be in touch with the going-ons. I've not had an easy time of it. Hay, just before you got here, I was mugged by four violent ponies... I... kinda killed one of them."
Twilight's wings ruffled lightly, but she didn't look too surprised, "Luna mentioned this. You are the gentlest murderer I've ever met."
Silver rolled his ears back, "How many have you met, and I'm not sure that's a compliment?"
Twilight flashed a smile, "It means I can do whatever I want with you, provided I don't maim or kill you."
Silver's blood ran cold and he gave a tug at the straps, "Please tell me you're just joking around?"
Twilight shook her head, "I checked with Celestia. Provided I cause no lasting physical damage, you're mine to examine and experiment with."
Silver wriggled more violently, "I don't get a trial or something?"
Twilight tilted her head, "I was told you confessed to Celestia already."
Silver sagged. He had. He told her everything, and didn't argue the deed. "I didn't mean to. I'm not a killer."
"But you killed," argued Twilight, "Ergo, you are a killer. A very nice killer, from what I've seen, but still a killer."
The terminal gave a soft beep and Twilight paused speaking to look over the long run of paper it had produced.
Silver conjured his hands but wasn't sure what to do with them. He could unbuckle himself, but Twilight would overpower him easily and throw him back on the table, likely with a magic inhibitor. He decided to try a different tact and sent the hands over to Twilight, gently petting her mane with one hand while scratching behind her ear with the other. "I always liked you, Twilight. I don't want you to think of me that way."
Twilight made a soft noise as she was pet, seeming to enjoy it at first before she snapped back to attention and approached Silver, "You shouldn't have killed then. However! What is harmony without forgiveness? After my experiments are complete, you will be released. You're not my subject forever." She flashed a smile, "I'm a little amazed. You still had magic and used it to pet me?" Her horn flashed and his magic became impeded, "You are a strange stallion."
Silver sagged as he realized his gambit had failed him. "Luna didn't warn me about the teeth. I had no idea I would hurt her like that."
Twilight raised a brow, "Good ponies do not grab other ponies on the throat with their teeth, especially not those teeth!" She pointed at the fangs that protruded from Silver's mouth. "But bad ponies don't broker peace for several hundred desperate changelings, or give up their wife to be their shepherd. Bad ponies don't care for the weak and infirmed. Good ponies don't throw fire around a school! Bad ponies don't..."
She grunted softly, "You are a confusing package. Speaking of!" She produced a flask and hovered it over to Silver's belly, "I'll need a sample to see if you still produce any human-compatible essence."
Silver blinked softly, looking down at the hovering vial, "What kind of sample?"
A soft pinch was felt in his arm as Twilight drew blood swiftly, "Well that's one down." A swab went for his mouth as he yelped and drew back quickly into a smaller vial, "Two down. Just need urine and semen and we're all done." She wobbled the vial that hovered over him. "It doesn't matter much which comes first."
Silver let out a slow sigh, "Considering I've been nothing but cooperative and have never used magic to escape a pony of authority, could you take off the magic blocker?"
Twilight raised a hoof, "Being pet is distracting."
Silver nodded slowly, "Alright, so I won't pet you. You just had to ask."
Twilight considered it a moment before she plucked the ring off of Silver, allowing his magic to flow freely again, "I'm trusting you to be a good pony."
Silver let out a soft sigh of relief, "It's like an instant head-cold when you wear one of those." Twilight was looking at him with a swishing tail and an eager look. She was adorable, but a little scary. "Uh... so... I can provide one of those samples, but I never mastered any trick that'd let me give you the other on command."
Twilight turned the vial and slipped it down over his sensitive bits, "Let's get the easy one then, shall we?"
It wasn't hard to give Twilight her precious bottle of piss, and she tucked it away before pulling out a fresh bottle, "One left to go!"
Silver shied back a little, though there was little room for him to wiggle on the table, "You're not one of my wives, Twilight." Not that he'd object to it on principle, but had a feeling it would be terribly unlikely for Twilight to just relocate to Canterlot. "You're cute, but staring at you isn't quite... enough."
Twilight's horn glowed ominously, "There are always alternative ways. Besides, you're single."
The name of Science has been used to justify many a travesty. Many a travesty indeed...
Poor Silver. Last time he got attacked, everyone railed on him for being a push over. Now when he comes out on top, everyone still rails on him. The universe just doesn't like him.
5801441 How bad could it be? It's Twilight! Book horse to the rescue!
5801442 It is cause it is Twilight that he should be worried LOL
In this case, that would be "mixed-up" cutie marks.
The terminal is "curious-looking."
She's not in touch with the "goings-on."
There should be a closing quotation mark at the end of this statement.
You should capitalize the "she" at the beginning of this sentence.
Also, the use of "sample" twice in that sentence is awkward. I'd change that to something like "I'll need to see if you still produce any human samples."
5801807 Edited, for Twilight's sanity. I hope you enjoyed this lavender chapter.
5801830 To be perfectly honest, I found this chapter upsetting. Not bad, but rather the more I read, the more outraged I became on Silver's behalf.
Let's start with the most minor point first. Silver is not a murderer, per se. A killer, yes, but Twilight is completely wrong to call him a murderer. Actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea - The act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty. Criminal liability for murder is found only if there is, beyond a reasonable doubt, both actus rea (a guilty action) and mens rea (a guilty mind). In other words, it requires malice aforethought. Silver did not have that - he neither sought nor provoked that conflict, nor did he commit an action that he had any reasonable chance of foreseeing would lead to that mare's death. If I recall correctly, he didn't even have the ability to flee the scene (though I could be wrong there), so there's really no doubting that he was acting in self-defense.
Which leads me to my second issue, his so-called "confession" to Celestia. That was not a confession, and certainly not of a criminal act! Even leaving aside the issue of the fact that there was no written record of his statement to her, simply making a statement is not the same as allocuting, if for no other reason than Silver had no reason to believe that his statement would be held against him later. That Celestia went and did so strikes me as even more backward than her ridiculous claim of "when in doubt, surrender...except against foreign enemies."
I know these are all technical issues regarding a justice system that (quite clearly) doesn't exist in Equestria in anywhere near the same form as it does here; in all likelihood, the monarchy (or rather, diarchy) is absolute, and the "court system" is largely meant to streamline the process and help the public find decisions regarding controversial cases easier to accept. Moreover, I know that this is issues of the whole "fireball debate" all over again, and I don't think that anyone wants to rehash that.
But there's a reason that these issues keep coming up, at least for me - these are the mechanisms by which we try to establish justice, and what's happening to Silver right now is a gross miscarriage of it. Being imprisoned, experimented on, and subject to invasive and humiliating tests against his will are a severe violation of his civil rights, if Equestria has any concept of such a thing. Of course, the fig leaf here is that his civil rights have been stripped from him due to Luna's declaration of his incompetence due to attempted suicide (and Celestia's "receiving his confession"), which goes to show that this situation is not tolerable, at least not to anypony with any sense of self-respect (which Silver seems to still be struggling with). This should drive home the point that he needs Luna to declare him fit to live on his own again, now!
I'm honestly surprised that Luna signed off on this. Yes, she knows and trusts Twilight, but is she really okay with her "true warrior" being made Twilight's play-thing? Maybe she doesn't know that Silver's giving Luna a "sample," but is she really unable to express empathy at the thought of him being tied down and prodded? Wait, this is the same mare that was willing to use trickery to look at his entire soul without permission...nevermind.
This just seems like a major step backward with regards to Silver receiving respect, both from others and from himself. Everyone is completely in character (even Twilight, as her zeal for research makes her near-sociopathy here seem believable), but this once again highlights just how few rights Silver has, and how unfairly he's being treated. He's put into these situations through no fault of his own, and then punished when he can't handle them incredibly perfectly. The end result is that he's treated as "less than," despite trying his best. Yes, the situation often turns out badly, most often for others, but this is rapidly showing that no matter what he does, it's not going to get better.
In a way, that situation with those ponies who jumped him highlights the "rock and a hard place" nature of his life in Canterlot. He can either surrender and be beat upon, or stand up for himself and have the princesses themselves hold that against him. He may be willing to put up with that, but I have to wonder how long that'll be the case the more he starts to gain a sense of dignity, since there's nothing dignified about what's happening to him now.
It may be time to wonder if he should defect to another country. I hear Anugypt is nice this time of year...
5801890 Sometimes your writing makes me want to write a big response, and other times it just make me want to write, this is one of the latter ones, but I shouldn't ever forget to give a thank you for taking the time to write it, because I always appreciate the input!
5801923 I'm pleased to know that you appreciate my input that much! As a fan, it's great to know that the authors you like are listening, and more so if they find your comments insightful and stimulate more writing!
Yeaaah, here's one of the moments that make me want to break stuff every time I read it. Pony running experiments on human, or placing human in some kind of situation where he/she have no other way but submit.
I'm probably just a human supremacist, but ugh.
Ugh!
UGH!
I mad bro.
Or maybe I'm just reacting badly to the violation of what I believe are essential human rights and liberties.
Is he going to hit on every single mare he finds and get away with it? Seriously. This is becoming excessive, David. He's starting to enter the territory of the emotion-type Gary-Stu now
5818268 Nope.
"I'm a little amazed. You still had magic and used it to pet me?" Her horn flashed and his magic became impeded, "You are a strange stallion."
Exactly what I was thinking and I was hoping she would go weak at the knees so to speak.
Again, "my magic is not impaired."
... Y'know if Silver is still Luna's responsibility on every legal level, then by all reason any crime he is guilty of, she is also guilty of by proxy. So if he confessed to murder in self defense (which on earth at least does not actually constitute a murder charge), that means Luna failed in her responsibilities at the very least, with criminal negligence for the safety of her charge a gaurantee. But since she's above the law, that obviously means nothing.
6789576 It's a big mess is what it is.
I was going to go on a long winded complaint, but Alzrius formulated it better than me.
The only thing I'm going to add is that when the law can't protect you, what reason do you have to follow or even respect it?
It's disection time!!
I know this is not how it will work but hey, this is Twilight we talking here
Eddit: read the chapter, correction disection were preferable to the things Twilight did to him
rape RAPE