Chapter 6 - The Rogue's Fate
Chapter 6: The Rogue's Fate
It was an interesting group that was marched back through a town now occupied by a hundred-plus Royal Guard.
Ponies throughout Ponyville had had their mornings interrupted by the Princess' arrival with a full Company of armored soldiers, and now lined the streets watching as Twilight led the procession through the town square and toward Sweet Apple Acres with Janus on her heels, head hanging low. Nopony said a word. Even some of the veteran Guards were rather reluctant to incite the mother's ire, and near the center of a ring of bat-winged Lunar Guard, Princess Luna forced herself to keep her head erect and regal wings folded neatly as if she was on parade.
Rainbow Dash had flown ahead to warn her own patrol of Twilight's 'rescue' and the other Element Bearers met them at the gate, Fluttershy cradling a babbling Moonlight in her forehooves to be handed over to her mother.
"Hello, my little moon, Mommy's back!" The foal babbled again and wrapped tiny hooves around her mother's nose with a happy coo. "I want you to meet somepony." Twilight turned and smiled at Janus. "This is your Daddy."
The foal stopped babbling and looked up at her father who blinked down at the bundle of joy.
Nobody noticed the soft hiss of Luna's horn igniting just in case...
"Hi there."
"Bah-Hee!"
Janus smiled, as a tiny hoof tapped him on the nose.
This time, Twilight did notice the magic around Luna's horn going out, the Alicorn giving a silent sigh of relief. She said nothing for a moment. "Alright then. I missed breakfast, so, Pinkie? Can I presume the barn?"
"Yepparoni!"
Twilight levitated Moonlight onto her back. "Then, food time!" She ordered, and trotted away to the amazed looks of everypony else present.
"What jest happen'd?" Applejack glanced at Fluttershy who shrugged.
"Best if you don't ask." Rainbow Dash replied. "Come on." She led the group toward the barn where a party had been assembled, complete with banner that read; "WELCOME MOONLIGHT'S DADDY!"
"Pinkie?"
"Yes?"
"... never mind." Applejack rolled her eyes and limped toward the snack tables where Janus and Twilight had sat down to eat.
"How did your friend know?"
"It's Pinkie. Best if you don't ask." Twilight replied, giving Moonlight a cookie to suck on.
"... I'll remember that." The Unicorn Stallion looked across the room where the pink mare in question was trying to get a couple of Rainbow's guards to loosen up and dance.
"I've known 'er for years myself. Everypony in town just accepts it." Applejack started to fill up her own plate.
"You'll stay sane if you do that." Twilight nodded. "I destroyed my notes after giving up trying to research her abilities. Leading theory is that she's got a bit of draconequus in her."
"As in Discord?" He blinked, worried about the implications of having someone related to the spirit of chaos anywhere near his daughter.
Twilight shrugged, taking a bite out of a cookie while watching Moonlight explore hers. "Possibly. But as I said, I gave up researching her and simply accepted that she's my friend."
"Ah." He didn't really understand, but decided to trust his mate with it.
"Twilight." Luna approached. "Despite the Element of Laughter's attempts to make a party out of your reunion, there are some matters to discuss..."
"Yes, yes... I know." Twilight sat, watching her daughter stare in amazement at Luna's flowing mane. "What do you want to know?"
The Goddess of the Night blinked in surprise. No demands? No yelling? "Well, an explanation is in order."
"I thought we'd already covered that?" Janus sat by Twilight, secretly rather proud of the Alicorn's disapproving frown. "I was abducted by the Nightmare to be Moonlight's father, escaped, yadda-yadda-yadda, we've all heard the deal."
"Enlighten me."
He sighed, glancing at his mate. "Can I-"
"No, you may not punch her again."
"Rats..." He went on again to explain the whole situation; how he had been lured off the streets of Marelin by a mind-controlled Twilight, abducted and sent to the Moon, chained and tortured, used to knock-up Twilight. The mother didn't appear to be paying attention as he described their time together - thankfully leaving out the more intimate details. He went on to describe his escape by hijacking Luna's teleport spell.
Everypony in the barn sat and let him speak, nopony speaking for several moments after he finished until the silence was broken by Luna, "I still don't trust you." Her suspicious scowl continued unabated by his tale.
"Yer just sore he laid ya out, ain'tcha?" Applejack grinned, throwing the dice and taking a chance.
"What? That is Absurd! We do not hold grudges!" Luna protested.
Even her guards were looking at her expectantly.
"... " She looked even among her Lunar guard for some sort of defense. She found none. "... okay, maybe just a bit. But We had good reason!" She poked the Stallion in the chest. "We could not be sure that he was not a threat to Our friend!"
"We can plainly see," Zecora smiled, sitting behind and between the two Unicorns. "Such things are not what they seem."
"Yeah. So when's the wedding?" Rainbow Dash piped up from a nearby cider barrel where her Sergeant was passing out the mugs.
"What?" Twilight suddenly exclaimed as Janus cleared his throat.
"'tis true. He did propose to you." Luna smirked, now that the tables were turned.
"She's got a point, Twi." He wriggled his eyebrows, then nodded down to Moonlight. "Would be a good idea in case your folks ask. Speaking of which, they are still coming, arn't they?"
Luna nodded. "Yes. But nevertheless, you are still on probation, Stallion." She pointed an armored hoof at him.
"... meh. Best I can get, I guess."
"Of course, meeting the folks is right up there on a list of punishments for an involved stallion." Applejack accepted a mug of cider from R.D. and grinned.
"... don't remind me..." He facehoofed as Twilight grinned.
"And what now?"
Twilight glanced at the Princess. "What?"
"What now? You are already sharing a room with Moonlight and Pinkie. Where will he bed down?" She pointed a hoof a Janus whom arched an eyebrow at his mate.
"Uh..."
"Easy there, sugarplum." A.J. put a hoof around her neck. "We'll take care of ya'll. Been planning that already."
"Well, care to fill me in, Applejack?"
"Already been chattin' with the Mayor about re-naming the Library and tucking the sign away until you really do pass on." She waved her brace in gentle circles beside her. "Me an' R.D. have been working on putting things back the way they were before ya was abducted." She shot a disapproving scowl at the brace. "... as much as we can."
"Things most certainly cannot go back to the way they were before all this." Twilight eye-rolled, then scowled at her friend.
"True. But it'll help. 'specially with Pinkie." She whispered, and nodded in the direction of said party pony.
Twilight looked at her pink friend and blinked as said pony was leading a conga-line of Guardsponies around the room. Even Luna stared in surprise.
"... case in point." The farmer muttered. "Pinkie will be with you, and R.D.'s been chattin' with the Mayor about a small place right next door for the new town Guardhouse."
"... you win." She glanced at Janus with a slight smirk. "And you will be with me too, I take it?"
"Of course. Moonlight needs a father, after all." His face split into a smirk, his ice blue eyes focused on the Princess. "Unless you have any objections."
"Oh, none at all..." The Princess grinned right back. "Leaving you locked in the middle of a government building surrounded by Royal Guards greatly appeals to me."
Twilight cleared her throat. "Its a PUBLIC Library, Luna..."
The nighttime Princess didn't miss a beat; "Still having the guards."
"If that's what it takes to have peace in this mixed up family of mine, deal." She nudged Janus. "Now shake." Her face fell into a frown when both ponies looked at her as if to ask 'are you serious?' To which she replied; "Yes, I'm serious. Now, Shake!"
"Sak!" Came from the dark blue filly in her forehooves. Janus could only stare into the filly that had his eyes, and was using them to stare at her father and the Princess.
Janus gave his daughter a look, then to the Princess; "Can't argue with that, can we?"
"Nope..." She extended an armored horseshoe. The two shook.
"Now that peace has been declared." Applejack smirked. "Now we have to deal with the Parents!"
Twilight's eyes went to pinpricks.
"Something wrong, sugarcube?" A.J. looked on in concern.
"My parents..." She responded at a glance with Luna and Janus. "... compared to dealing with them, I'll be wishing you two were still at war..."
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Woo!
meeting the parents.....
good luck dude you'll need it....
And yet the story still says incomplete.
2597791 'Technically, she is the one that seduced me and kidnapped me!'
Good wrap up, although I dunno...it all feels like it was too clean cut after the major drama that was wrapped up in the climax of the previous story. Not so much a mark against it but wondering if I should be watching for massive, basket-ball sized curve-balls being launched out of a cannon in the next installment.
Should be interesting to see
mfw update and mention of sequel
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I like the Churchill quote you did there
You know, in my story Pinkie IS half draconequus, so its funny that you said that about her.
Interesting story, but I can't help but notice that you make a recurring grammatical mistake.
Your dialogue punctuation. At the end of the dialogue part, you need either a comma, an exclamation mark or a question mark. Like so:
Also note how 'said' 'shouted' and 'questioned' are all in the lowercase. This is because the speaking part and the said part are parts of the same sentence.
There is one situation where you can use a full stop; when the speaking character performs an action without use of a 'said' tag.
Here, 'An' is capitalised because it's two seperate sentences.
Another thing I noticed, was that you used 'its' instead of 'it's'. 'It's' is the abbreviation for 'it is', 'its' isn't.
I would recommend that before you start writing your next story, you read this very very good writing guide.
2598376 Out of all the explanations of her abilities, that is the most common, you know.
For some reason this didn't appear in my unread favorites list! Why?!
Oh, and yay sequel! I'm really excited on where this will go from here.
2598424 Nooo! I'm no longer the biggest grammar nazi on the web!
Also, the Author's Note at the end somehow reminds me of Waiting For The End.
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Just an FYI, but I find the term "Grammar Nazi" quite offensive. I'm nothing like a Nazi.
2598844 It's the most commonly used term, but if you insist, I'll call you "Grammar Perfectionist" from now on.
Woo! Can't wait for more!
YES!!! Me need sequel!!!
That is probably the ONLY improperly written sentence that you'll ever see from me, so that means that I LOVE this story. Which is ironic, since, while typing this, I made so many mistakes.
Heh heh, it seems Luna is a bit of a sore loser, and even her guards know it. But, at least they made peace with each other over the misunderstanding...somewhat reluctantly. Now, the two have to deal with Twilight's (and Janus's) parents. Yep, that is going a nightmare to deal with.
Great job with this, can't wait to read the next sequel~!
C&Cs:
"Pinkie will be with you, and R.D.'s been chattin' with the Mayor about a small place right next door for the new town Guardpost.
> Missing the ending quotation. Also, I think it should be 'guard post'.
She pointed a hoof a Janus whom arched an eyebrow at his mate.
"... compared to dealing with them I'll be wishing you two were still at war..."
> Comma after ‘them’.
2598427 Really? I've never heard it anywhere else. I've heard that shes really a powerful unicorn with no horn, practices ancient earth pony magic, an extra-dimentional being, uses an anceint artifact to bend space-time, and a dozen others, but not that.
OHMYGODITUPDATEDANDTHERE'SASEQUELHNNNNNGH-!
ps- When you posted the chapter, it didn't show up on the updated favorites page. site error?
I hate being the one to point out mistakes instead of complimenting you on how great the story is, how you need to update more, and I can't wait for the sequel, but...
We filly Janus now?
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Phew, I'm still the biggest grammar hypocrite on the internet.
2599604>>2600020 Fixed.
2600660 If you're done with this story and all but ready to move to the sequel, shouldn't you also mark this as complete instead of leaving the incomplete label on still?
Waiting for the sequel.
EDIT: Oh wait, you already did my bad!
2599693 Because Pinkie Pie.
Anyone else think Janus seems way too nonchalant and self-confident? Even in the face of the alicorn he whacked over the head rather unfairly, who might have had such a pony, say, executed, pre-banishment? Is he supposed to be so brash? It's hard to imagine how Twilight could like this guy at all sometimes. That and someone needs to take that dude down a notch or two.
There will be a sequel?
Yay.
great if i wasn't checking all of my favorites i wouldn't have noticed this updated
why did you do this to me FIMFiction 
so glad to hear that the story will continue, and to have you back
now excuse me i have something to get off from me...
D´AAAAAWWWWwwwwww it was so cute when Moonlight taped Janus nose
Edit: woao not even in the notifications for Followed updates this story showed up
2640117 Same here. And I have over 900 faves...
Sequel...?
Yay. Certified Pinkie is best Pinkie.
Can't wait to read the next part (that means get to it). The last two installments have been a real pleasure to read. I hope you won't make us wait for much longer.
This and its prequel have been upvoted and favorite. I only regret waiting or so long before starting to read them.
Feels like this one ended a little abruptly... but I will be eagerly reading the sequel. Let the madness continue!
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I actually have to thank you for that reply, otherwise I would not have found the third story in this series. have a reward.
Another epic one but I loved the last line.
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This isn't an image. This is a wall of text. Fix it or erase it, please.
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Well, that covers Twi's parents, but what about Key's?
Did you begin a sequel?
>> vampyr-pony True that.
SEQUEL PLZ
4954218 The sequel is already posted. I just need to get back to work on it.
thanx
He sighed, glancing at his mate. "Can I-"
"No, you may not punch her again."
"Rats..."
"My parents..." She responded at a glance with Luna and Janus. "... compared to dealing with them, I'll be wishing you two were still at war..."
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Yeah, don't worry, they weren't even there for Shining's wedding! I don't think they existed, even as background ponies til they showed the Time Travel Arc with the best communist pony.