Element
Chapter 104
Element
Only if Garrus agrees. And Shepard too when we get a hold of him. 75%
“I cannot take you with me everywhere, Gabriella,” Fluttershy said carefully. “There are places I go with Garrus and things we do that would only put you in grave danger… I also have no intention of putting you through the things I went through to get here. You’re still a kid, you shouldn’t have to deal with the horrors out there… Shouldn’t have to deal with me.” The betrayed look Gabby shot up at her at the denial was like an ice pick slowly being driven into her chest, the teary-eyed griffin conveying all of her pain without saying a single word. “B-But I can ask if there’s a temporary spot available for you on the Normandy when Garrus and I inevitably get back onto the ship.”
Gabby immediately pulled Fluttershy close again in her hug. “Thank you.”
“Don’t thank me yet, due to the nature of the mission you’ll be removed from the ship before we head out for our final objective. I’m also not giving you a definite yes until Garrus and Shepard agree, if they don’t, I will not take you,” Fluttershy told her in a tone that didn’t broke any argument. “Shall we get back to the others?”
“I guess,” Gabby replied, wiping the tears from her eyes and allowing Fluttershy to stand again. The griffin remained silent as they walked back but was practically glued to the yellow pegasus as they passed all of the various aliens in the embassy.
“Fluttershy!” The call stopped the pegasus in her tracks as she recognized Anderson’s voice and turned to look at the human councillor. “Could I steal a moment of your time?”
“Of course, what is it you need to say?” Shy asked, Gabby hid behind her in an attempt to shield herself from the human.
“I just got out of a council meeting about our new arrivals and your return on the citadel, they’ve decided to grant them citizenship just like they did to you and everyone else who came through...” Fluttershy nodded, waiting for the councillor to continue with the other thing he wanted to say. “...The other thing they wanted is an audience with you. ”
“The council wants an audience with me?” Fluttershy questioned in astonishment. “Why’s that?”
“Because we want to hear your opinion on what to do with Saren next.” Fluttershy felt as if she had just been hit by a shuttle, she hadn’t thought about the former rogue Spectre in a long time. “Let’s just say the council is divided and we could use you as a potential tiebreaker.”
“Of course, tell me when and where to be and I’ll be there,” Fluttershy immediately answered, very interested in what had become of the turian after she’d purged the reaper influence from him.
Anderson nodded in approval. “I’ll make sure you’ll have a summons in a couple of hours. I’ll see you there.”
The human turned back again to head to his office just as Fluttershy resumed her path back to the room with the others. The only creatures present there after arriving were Rainbow and Garrus.
“I see our little meetup is over?” Shy commented, getting the attention of Garrus and Dash, but before either one could say anything Shy spotted what they had laying on the table in front of them. “No way...”
“What is it?” Gabby asked in confusion about what was wrong as Fluttershy’s gaze was locked on the table.
“They were in Twilight’s backpack, Shy. Particle had taken them with the assumption Twilight would be here instead of Luna,” Rainbow explained as she held her own element. “It’s strange, my Element seems… happy?” Fluttershy stepped forward and eyed her own element, the pink gem glistening in the light as it lay on the table.
Of course Rainbow’s Element would be happy, she went after me the moment the opportunity presented itself… what’s mine going to say of me...
“The armor will make wearing it hard though… Do you think we’d still be able to use it if I just have it built into the armor? That’d make me at least twenty percent cooler.”
“Rainbow!” Fluttershy shouted suddenly, pulled from her trance staring at her own element. “We can’t just do that with the Elements! What if we break them?!”
Dash reared back at the outburst. “Whoa, calm down there, I was just theorizing...”
Fluttershy wasn’t exactly convinced that she was but would let it slide as her attention was pulled back to her own Element, feeling drawn to it like a moth to a flame. Carefully extending her hoof to touch the necklace she pulled in the magnificent jewel. The entire artifact felt cold to the touch, colder than it should have any right to be and whispers filled her mind in all of the languages she’d heard over the last two years and some she’d never heard of in her life…
…and then it hit her.
The pink gem lit up brightly, memories of every experience she’d had over the last two years flashed in front of her eyes. All of the pain and sorrow she’d experienced, all of the abuse she’d endured.
The attack on the citadel... Berkenstein... Omega...
Fluttershy shrieked as her legs collapsed from under her and wings extended and pulsed in their blue aura, pushing back all others. The pain and sadness pulsing from the element was so overwhelming the pegasus broke down sobbing.
W̺͎͓̠ͮ͆̇̏̾ͅh͎̦͂ͬ̆͐y̋́͗̇͐ͥͬ҉͕̲̰?͍̝̟̝̠͐ͮ͂̽ͮ
All of the whispers in her mind asked the same question at the same time. Pushing through all of the painful memories. At first, Fluttershy struggled to comprehend the simple question.
Why what? Why did I do those things?... No...
The Element didn’t want to know why she’d done the things she had, it knew all her motives the moment the pegasus touched the gem so it wasn’t asking why Fluttershy did those things. It had asked why...
Because the galaxy has dark places where kindness is swallowed whole, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any kindness.
Fluttershy tried to explain to the Element as it wailed, forcing away the horrible memories and bringing forth the positive ones.
The way she was taken in on the Normandy… Shepard allowing the last of the rachni queens to go free… The salarian doctor on Omega who’d been working on curing a plague...
The sadness emanating from the element of kindness slowly came to a stop, allowing Fluttershy a clear mind as the element warmed up in her hooves. It still felt a little sad and a bit disappointed but overall it trusted its bearer, giving her a chance the pegasus herself doubted she deserved.
“Fluttershy!”
Rainbow was on top of her in seconds, Garrus only a fraction of a moment later as he held her close to find what was wrong. The door also slid open as the princess of the night came charging back into the room followed by Shining Armor.
“What happened!?” She bellowed, seeing the unconscious pegasus clutching her elements, “Oh... that happened.”
“What’s going on Princess? Is she okay?!” Garrus asked as Luna approached.
“Yes, of that I can assure you. It seems the Bearer of Kindness had a bit of a hiccup with her Element. It seems to still be bound to her though,” Luna said as she checked the gem and found it shining bright pink. “If it had been unbound then we’d have been in more trouble… trust me on that one,” The princess grimaced for the briefest of moments after she added the last part of her sentence. Lighting her horn, Luna pressed the tip against Shy’s forehead to which the pegasus gasped for air and came back to.
“Don’t scare me like that little angel!” Garrus exclaimed as he held Fluttershy tightly to his body.
“Sorry, I wasn’t expecting that to happen,” Fluttershy said, shaking her head and getting her bearings. The Element in her hooves had returned to its inert state but Fluttershy could feel its power coursing through the gem.
“You two should keep your Elements with you, they’ll help you when things seem darkest,” Luna told Fluttershy and Dash as she noticed the other pegasus had her respective element as well. “If you would allow me, I will take custody of the Element of Magic though. It would not be well if we let that fall into the wrong hooves.”
Fluttershy nodded and Luna picked the tiara up in her magic, stashing it into the emptied-out saddlebags and levitated them to herself. Fluttershy then heard her omni-tool beep from an incoming message which she quickly read.
“What was that about?” Garrus asked as he helped Fluttershy back onto her hooves.
“That was Anderson, the council wanted to see me. He also asked for you to join, Princess.”
“Then we shall oblige. When is this meeting?”
Fluttershy checked the time on her omni-tool and cursed before she smiled sheepishly.
“Uhm... Now.”
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Are the remaining three Elements, not including Magic, the ones Luna used before? Or given the links through the other Elements, they could possibly permit Luna to at least utelise them in extremis? Or is Gabby going to end up with any of them?
The reason for a Parliament or Council is so that people outside get so fed up of nothing happening that they go out and do the job themselves?
If things play out the way I think they will, then Mama Fluttershy will have two kids onboard the ship.
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It sure seems like that some days...
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Luna and Celestia were each bonded to no less than three of them once upon a time. I'm sure the Element of Magic would accept her if she earned its trust again. I suspect the biggest hurdle there isn't really the Element, it's Luna herself. Whether she admits it publicly or not, the dreaming episode clearly shows she has regular nightmares about Nightmare Moon, and often sees herself reverting. Trusting herself is probably the hardest thing she's had to learn since coming back, and I suspect it still is at this point, considering what she confided to Twilight.
Edit: As for Twilight, once she and Celestia patch things up, it will be a growth moment for the unicorn to learn she doesn't need a magical tiara to be the Element of Magic. (And that there can be more than one at a time.)
Hush little Kindness, don't you cry
Your Element Bearer is still Fluttershy
1. Yeah..."hiccup"; it's why I've done the lullaby above.
2. ...Luna was Kindness, wasn't she. May the Princess of the Night bond with Flutters.
...should I sing the Code Lyoko song again?
There's our Flutters.
Here we go, incompetent moro-Uh, I mean Council time!
I'm wondering if we will see the Avatar of the tree of Harmony in this story.
hmm, time to visit the council then and decide Sarens fate, oh what will happen will he be exiled, or put into sheaperd crew, hmm soo many wonders so little time as it feels like the end of the 2nd mass effect(meek story) draws closer
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Considering what he did, I doubt the Council will whitewash his history and let him go, in any capacity. Even if they're normally willing to let Spectres get away with a great deal, they did declare him a fugitive from justice. You can't just wash that away once its been done.
Saren surviving the first game introduces a wrinkle. The Illusive Man would want to kidnap him for study to use in the Sanctuary project. Harbinger would have the Collectors mobilize at least some of their resources to find and either kill or retrieve this lost asset. And even if he avoids all of those fates, he's been heavily Indoctrinated already, and could turn on whoever he's with on zero notice.
The most rational outcome I can see would be the Council sentencing him to some kind of maximum security complex, but Saren engineers his own escape and goes rogue again. After that, when he shows up again, and what he's doing, would depend on his headspace at the time.
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I was not meaning exile as in a clean slate nor is working with sheaperd, tho the latter its more like so both Fluttershy and sheaperd could make sure, he has reformed so to say, I mean exile as in pretty much dropping him off on a deserted planet that may or may not be full of hostile creatures with a weeks worth of food maybe more or less no way of returning, unless as you say Cerberus found him or the collectors, and in ME2 we do know that our crew gets taken by the collectors, so.... possibility's.
I never have played any of the dlcs so I cant say anything about that and I can agree about his possible fate if it does happen, but if he does make it past that all hes heavily inductrinated by fluttershy, so maybe he wouldn't turn on them at a moments notice.
hmm, yeah I can see that happening as well, maybe shows up as a target for Cerberus in ME3: MEEK's storyline, though that brings some complexations up as in how did Cerberus not find him till then.... its always fun to think of what could but may never happen.
Now now Kindness, you know that outside of Equestria things are not as clean-cut as they were at home, and sometimes showing such Kindness takes on a form that isnt normally seen
I hope the others confront Luna about why Twilight isn't there.
Saren will be a great addition. Like our Merc only on steroids ♤
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Time to buck some rump
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Totaly a A.i...
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Saren on a suicide mission? Sounds about right...
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Spoiled Element of Harmony... Great
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Sister
Saren under Shepard? Would be very efficient!