Airship Mauled

by Darkonshadows

Chapter thirty three, Unfamiliar Faces: Meeting Twilight.

Author's Note:

Finished Kingdom Hearts 3, everything done one hundred percent!

The secret boss wasn't nearly as bad as Sephiroth could get sometimes and I have had fun with it all. Also The Kid from Bastion kind of makes an appearance, at least that's what that one character looks like and could be a cool cameo.

If anyone is struggling with anything I could give out a few tips, but I'm not helping with the emblem or chest finding. That's the fun part, some of them are in really subtle places.

Now back to the long winded story writing. Be patient, this story is definitely going somewhere with all of this stuff that Fluttershy is remembering.

- Celestia, Ponyville, a week prior to the Nightmare Moon’s escape, two years after Jade-

My dreams were haunted with visions of my sister, I was second guessing myself constantly and I was quite afraid of what was coming.

I would not fight my sister when she comes for me, but I hope my capture will spur Twilight on to find the Elements of Harmony and get them working again.

I looked about trying think of something that would help Twilight, then I spotted some of Jade’s old friends. Fluttershy and Pinkie with three other mares, they looked like they were having a get together.

They looked like they could use a new friend. One that would be awkward and a little brainy, but I’m sure they could iron out her kinks. All I would need to do is put Twilight into their paths and hope that my precious little shut-in opened her eyes and looked away from all those dusty old books to the world around her.

Hmmm… dusty old books… knock a book from the shelf that Twilight hasn’t read before and she’d jump on reading it in a flash if it caught her interest well enough. Leave an Elements of Harmony reference guide in the local library in Ponyville and… yes… this could work!

-Canterlot a day or so later-

My second guessing and waffling had become that much worse, I had the whole thing planned. Applejack was tasked with the catering. Fluttershy was getting together a bird choir. Rainbow Dash probably wouldn’t have a job if I didn’t help fudge her paperwork a bit, she wasn’t exactly that bright. Rarity would be nice on the decorations as she seems fashion minded.

As for Pinkie? Well Twilight needed someone who doesn’t care about personal space and could break straight through her shell, send Pinkie a message to go to a certain spot near where Twilight will be landing and she’ll hit my purple pony pupil with a surprise party.

Twilight will land where I’ll tell her to, of that I have no doubt. My student tries too hard to make me happy sometimes and telling her where to land exactly would make her do just that.

I know I am relying on so much to happen, but please... let Twilight be capable of returning my sister to me! What if she can’t though!

I was pacing about and the two guards with me lazily watched me panic, why can’t they do something useful and try to calm my worries down? Oh right, the royal guard tend to be more ceremonial than actually combat hardened ponies, I was even beginning to realize that my ponies survived on good will.

Maybe I was doubting the royal guard because I was panicking, was I panicking? Was I doing so too much? Oh my goodness the future relies on me to make a decision to send my precious student away, so of course I’m panicking!

Breathe, calm down, now think about how I can do this and believe that things will turn out for the better.

It’s not like the future of everything relied on Twilight making friends, because she’s ignored the friendships she currently could be having.

Goodness knows that Moon Dancer was infatuated with her and even Spike noticed that and he’s a baby dragon!

My little Twilight was so shut-in that she shut out the possibilities of having a perfectly good friend that could share in her passion.

Moon Dancer could even possibly be in love with Twilight and Twilight’s ignorance was breaking her heart completely! I doubt Moon Dancer would take this well and Twilight would have ruined her life by not trying to connect to others.

Oh my poor little ponies are so doomed!

No, this will work, it has to work!

“Are you okay princess?” One of the guards finally asked, goodness bless him I needed to hear that!

“I’ll be just fine my little pony.” I calmed down and reoriented myself while giving him a small warm smile. Yes, Twilight going to Ponyville was the best idea I had.

-The future that refused to change, Fluttershy-

I knew I should be concentrating on holding onto my friends for dear life as the wind whipped us around, but I couldn’t help but think of the fact that it was around the time that I met Rarity that I started to forget Airship Mauled.

I completely forgot about it when Twilight came to town sometime after Celestia visited, the princess definitely chose Ponyville for the reasons I thought she did. Mostly because Celestia’s sister was returning on that day and to closest location to where she was sealed, which was Ponyville.

Celestia may have planned our friendship, but she didn’t help us get to know Twilight or even force it like Twilight tried with Starlight Glimmer.

Canterlot was encased in a roiling storm and things with the Storm King were not going quite to plan or so well right now.

I know I didn’t want to get sucked into the sky with winds this turbulent. Rainbow would certainly thrive in these stormy conditions, but I was still quite a weak flyer and always would be.

I preferred my hooves on the ground anyway. Right now I was quite scared one of us was going to get pulled away and hurt by all this flailing about we were doing.

My first official meeting with Twilight was a little awkward, but Celestia wanted her to befriend us so who were we to argue with the princess that moved the sun?

Twilight met us on her own merits and we got to know a little about her, we had time to learn a lot more about her after Luna was free of The Nightmare’s influence and she decided to stay in Ponyville with us.

I think I had ultimately forgotten about Airship Mauled as soon as I met Twilight, at the time it had been about two years since I last saw that town and more than a year since I last thought of visiting.

I had settled into my life in Ponyville and was comfy with all the creatures that I was tasked to care for, I was always so busy. The times I were free was spent with Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity and eventually Rainbow Dash when she moved into town.

Rainbow Dash was always looking out for me and I appreciated that, even then she was working towards the goal of being a Wonder Bolt.

Thinking of it, I remembered how I had been tasked with the bird choir that day.

-Fluttershy, Summer Sun Celebration and day of Nightmare Moon’s escape-

This was really tough, each bird was of a different species and all of them had a different tone of voice and getting them all to sing with a decent amount of harmony took quite an effort.

I was managing to make it work and the birds actually wanted to do this, much to my surprise.

I wasn’t about to deny them their show, though I did tell them they’d have to stay up later than usual to do this. Birds tended to go to bed early, but they were surprisingly okay with this and if they were okay with it, then so was I.

They were doing so well in practicing together, but I heard one of the birds being a little bit off. I decided to stop them.

“Excuse me sir, I mean no offense, but your rhythm is just a teeny tiny bit off.” The Blue Jay seemed to take my criticism pretty well. I moved back to continue conducting them. “Now, follow me please. A one, a two. A one, two, three…”

“Hello!” That’s when I first heard Twilight and she scared off all my singers. I landed and things quickly became awkward between me and this Twilight who just introduced herself.

Eventually I tried to tell her my name, but I went all squeaky again. This happened a lot, but only with meeting new ponies. I didn’t have any problems with any other beings except possibly adult dragons which were big and scary.

“Okay, well that was easy.” She turned around and I saw a little dragon approach her, he must have been a baby.

I got a little too excited and rammed head first into Twilight, knocking her out of the way. I didn’t really think about what I just did, I was more interested in talking to the dragon that introduced himself as Spike.

“Hi Spike.” Wow a talking baby dragon, though I couldn’t understand why something felt off about this situation. I couldn’t help but feel something niggling at the back of my mind.

I spent quite a bit of time talking to him, then Twilight bucked him off her back and made up some story about him being sleepy.

I just played along with it and wanted to go inside, because I knew Pinkie had that party waiting for her.

Only Twilight left me outside… I’d just wait for Pinkie to notice I was still out here. It wasn’t long before the door would be open for me, so I just started counting down from sixty.

“Three… two… one.” The door flew open and Pinkie popped out, I sighed and smiled at her while chuckling. She was quite unpredictable a lot of the time, but sometimes she could be timed so easily.

“Hey Fluttershy, I think the party is going great. Come on in!” I went in and decided to get a cupcake for myself, then I would have to get back to practicing with the birds.

“So how is Twilight taking the party Pinkie?” Every new pony that came to Ponyville got one, it didn’t matter if they were staying or not. Pinkie was the Ponyville Party Pony and she greeted everyone with the same enthusiasm.

“I think she’s taking it just… er… well…” Pinkie started to look around, once she noticed the pony she was throwing this party for wasn’t here.

“Don’t worry about Twilight, she just went upstairs to rest for this evening.” Spike tried to reassure us, but Pinkie looked mildly upset that Twilight didn’t stick around longer with the party getting into full swing.

“Pinkie, there will be other parties for Twilight to enjoy.” I put a hoof around her back and pulled her into a hug and nuzzled her neck a bit, she cheered up immediately.

“Of course there will be other parties with her, she’s invited to all of them after all!” With that Pinkie pulled away from me and I smiled after her, it seemed Spike was enjoying the party at least.

After eating my cupcake and avoiding most of the ponies in the room, including Rarity.

I was about to head out when Rarity stopped me.

“Always the shy one, where are you going darling?” I turned to Rarity, it was sweet she was worried about me.

“Yeah Fluttershy, the party is right here!” Rainbow exclaimed vibrantly as she pointed at all the others ponies in the library.

“I have to finish helping the birds, Twilight kind of sidetracked me and we were interrupted by her in the middle of practice.” I was going to be busy right up until Celestia’s appearance tonight, it would be so good to see her again.

“Right, we’ll tell Pinkie you were too busy to stay for long, but you seriously need to mingle more dear.” After Rarity said that I was off to get back to my bird choir.

The bird choir managed to do some warm ups without me around, all this effort was worth it to put a real smile on Celestia’s face.

I heard rumor there was hardly much of a real one on her face these days while in public.

-The future that refused to change, Fizzlepop ‘Tempest Shadow’ Berrytwist La Perm-

Twilight was hugging all her friends and I didn’t feel like interfering with that, though I wished that could be me with two of my friends.

Twilight didn’t need to save me from falling off the balcony, but she had anyway. I closed my eyes for a bit and then turned away to let them have their moment.

I have caused a lot of damage here, I wasn’t exactly proud of myself for what has happened.

It was just like when she… when Jade jumped in the way of the arrow and took it in the chest for me.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something that made my blood freeze a bit. The Storm King looked ready to turn them all to stone.

It was about time that I let him truly know about my displeasure of having to work for him, he wasn’t going to hurt Fluttershy, Pinkie or even Twilight while I was here.

This Satyr bastard was going to get what was coming to him… ME!

I charged forward ignoring how defensive the ponies got around Twilight and leapt over them to take the hit in the chest for them and then I forced the magic back towards him. Just like Jade would have done for me.

I then took a second leap forward to force us both off the same balcony I would have fallen off earlier to my doom, only this time I was taking the Storm King with me!

My eyes glaring straight into his fearlessly as my flesh and blood hooves connected with him just before they completely turned to stone.

His look of shock as he too started turning to stone was a wonderful sight. Unfortunately I was going to perish right alongside him when we fell.

My last thoughts before the stone encompassed me where to say goodbye to the cruel world and that I might be seeing Jade again real soon.

Heh, I managed to fight the magical power of four alicorns in the 'Staff of Sacanas' when it was used against me all at once several times with my broken stump. That would be one of my greatest accomplishments, my magical output would be legendary!

The last thing I saw was bits of sunlight, then things went black for me.

Before I knew it, I was breathing again and looking to the balcony to my right, then to Twilight and her friends on my left.

Twilight had likely just used the staff to save me. Looking to Fluttershy, she seemed to be giving me a worried look.

Apparently I had survived the Storm King turning me to stone... I sighed.

It looks like death wasn’t meant for me this day.

-Fluttershy-

“Now what?” I asked as I looked to Rarity, who turned to another one of our friends.

“Now…” Fizzle started off with a smile as she came towards us. “We fix everything… at least what can be fixed anyway.”

I heard that last part as she started to make her way towards where the stone princesses were.

Twilight soon fixed all the damage that had been done by the Storm King’s invasion as she slammed the staff down and started returning all the magic in it to where it rightfully belonged. The magic started spreading outward and things were being fixed everywhere.

“Wherever you happen to be now... I’m sorry Jade.” Fizzle quietly mumbled, soon Celestia, Luna and Cadence were no longer stone statues. “If you knew of everything that I’ve done... would you have still wanted to be with me?”

The only thing that wasn’t magically fixed was the broken remains of the Storm King’s statue.

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[Booster Spice]

Storm King learns.

Its a hard thing to Rock And Rule.

Wonder how big a name a Pony could have in Equestria, with trains but no telephones, if they followed their name of Hall Mark?