An idea of two, fragile as glass, with incredible strength and unbalanced minds, comes alive. Will they refrain from destroying themselves? Will they destroy the world that sustains them? Or will everything shatter and fall?
Cancelled: Who are my characters again?
Heart and mind make the soul come alive. Too little of one, and you'll be blind. Too little of the other, and you wont care.
Two unbalanced sisters are torn directly from the mind and thrust into a new world. With their strength now touching reality, will they manage to keep from destroying everything close to them? Will they be able to keep from destroying themselves?
(Yes, this is a LoHaV/H story. It's not a crossover though because I don't find many characters interesting. If you find that my characters are exactly like some manga or book or something, then please send me a link.)
Fuji felt a strange thrill run through his body. It was the thrill of something new and something strange. Which was to be expected, because the place around him was a completely different world.
Monochromatic animals surrounded him. One of those animals just seemed to be a random mishmash of different creatures. It was just strange... In fact, it was too different from what he was used to in reality. He had to wait for his brain to adjust and accept where he really was.
Bronycon, in Japan.
Well, he may as well enjoy himself, after all, that was what he came here for. It certainly wasn't like the other cons he'd been to, but he going to get bothered by going a little bit out of his comfort zone. In fact, since he was one of the attendees now and not the staff, he could just lay back and enjoy the festivities.
He walked through the crowd until he found a row of stands. It was like the usual anime/manga based product stands at the other cons he'd been to, but they were all pony themed. "Let's see," he said.
"Buttons..." He looked at the stand with what had to be hundreds of pictures of a brown colt. "No." The stand owner frowned. He probably worked pretty hard on his pictures.
"Pony Plushies." Fuji stared at the various plushies on the next stand, and though he would never admit it, he felt a warm tingle in his heart when he looked at the Pinkie Pie plushie. "N-- No."
Picking up on his shyness, the stand owner gave him a sultry wink.
More than slightly confused, he moved on to the next stand. "Make your characters come to life." He read. Yeah right, even he couldn't make his own characters come to life. Literally, that was. Figuratively... well, that was his job. But he was feeling a bit competitive.
"Hello there." The old man from the stand waved. He looked like he didn't have a care in the world. He also had some freaky red and yellow eyes.
Fuji wondered what drugs he was on and where he could find them. But before he asked, he would have to humiliate his competition. "Hello," he said, "You can make my characters come to life?"
"But of course." The man looked at Fuji as if he just asked the dumbest question in the world. "Why else would I be here, under a sign that says 'make your--'"
"I get it." Fuji raised his hand. Something about the old man was already getting annoying. "So, how are you gonna do this?" he asked.
Meanwhile, Fuji called forth two of his favorite archetypes. 'Heart' he thought.
'What?' A fit blond girl in black jogging attire appeared next to him in his mind.
'Mind,' He thought.
A beautiful red-head in brown business attire floated down beside him. 'Yes?'
'Apparently you're going to come to life.' Fuji thought, smirking.
Mind stared at the stand owner and sighed. 'is this really necessary.'
'You two,' Heart snapped, 'shut up! We're missing what the old guy's saying!'
"--Now that you've got your characters in mind..." The old man snapped his fingers.
Suddenly, an immense pain ran through Fuji's head. He expected heart to ask if he was okay, but he couldn't hear anything in his mind. It was completely barren, lonely even. Seconds passed by without a single thought passing through him.
"Fuji!" a familiar voice called his name.
"What!?" He asked. He didn't really want to be bothered; some old guy just hypno-ravaged his brain.
"No, don't talk out loud, you'll sound crazy!" Heart raised her palms in panic.
"--And what beautiful characters they are!" The old man clapped his hands and laughed in joy.
Fuji, Heart, and Mind just stared at each other, blinking occasionally.
...
So that's why the con looked extra freaky.
...
Mind shrugged and turned to the old man. "So, let me get this straight," she said, "you made me and my sister real, just with a snap of your fingers?"
"Uh-huh." The man nodded with a toothy grin.
"Are you an alien too? Because you have some freaky eyes."
"I am." he answered, as if it were obvious.
Mind put her hands on his stand and hunched over, squinting at him. "Really then... Okay, where do you come from?" She raised her right hand and snapped her finger. A door opened to her right.
"Wait!" The man panicked. "I wouldn't do that if I were--"
Heart and Mind were sucked through the portal like rag-dolls.
"--you." He cringed.
"W-- What just happened?" Fuji started to panic. He tried to bring forth his two favorite archetypes again, but they just weren't there anymore. They were taken from him! They were his family! His family was taken from him!
"Oh." The old man looked at Fuji in pity. "Oh dear."
"What the fuck just happened!?" Fuji grabbed the old man's stand and yelled.
The old man looked offended, but calmed himself for some reason. "Nobody should have to go through that," he grumbled. "Here." He stood, walked out from behind the stand, and held out his hand. "Come with me."
As Fuji grabbed the hand, a white light appeared, and he was no longer himself.
"Oh dear dear dear..." a mishmash of parts cried above him. "I am so sorry. Some ponies may think I may enjoy this sort of thing, but there are certain lines you don't cross, and I would never--"
"DISCORD!" A voice bellowed.
Discord froze. "Uh," he said, "Luna's calling me. Probably for round two. Gotta go." He snapped his claws and disappeared.
...
Fuji looked around at the stones and grass surrounding him. Nothing seemed familiar. He looked at himself.
"Who am I?" he asked.
Mind held Heart's broken arm in her hand, holding her other hand above the arm. She concentrated on moving it back into pla--
"AAAAAAHHH!" Heart screamed.
"Hold still!" Mind said.
"It hurts!" Heart yelled.
Mind blinked. She didn't remember pain, which was strange. Now that she thought about it though, she remembered something about how to deal with pain.
"Bite down on this." Mind snapped her fingers.
"Wha--?" Heart was cut off by a small wooden log getting shoved in her mouth.
"Three," Mind said.
Heart readied her body.
"Two--" Suddenly, Mind moved the arm back into position and forced the bone back in place.
"GGGGAAAH!" Heart nearly broke the wood in half.
Mind moved her arm back and forth over Heart's arm, mending broken bone, over-stretched muscle, and anything else that was damaged. When all was done, she patted Heart on the head. "There we go." She gave a fake smile. "That wasn't so bad, was it?"
"Why don't you try it?" Heart glared sullenly.
Mind hid her arms behind her back.
Heart frowned. She sighed and embraced her sister in a hug. Mind probably didn't need it, but she did.
Mind hugged her sister back. She didn't know what she was feeling, but she knew Heart valued her strength. "It's over," she said. "It's like it never happened. There isn't even a single scar; you'll be able to use that arm just like you used to." She fake-smiled again.
Heart smiled back. "Thanks." She frowned. "But make sure to be more careful next time. That stupid door-frame could have hit my head. Or your head."
Mind frowned. She was surprised she hadn't considered that. As powerful as she was, a blow to the head would hurt her as much as anyone else. "Yeah... I'll try."
She sat for a while, staring the beauty of the edge of the forest in front of her. She appeared to be on the edge.
"Well." Heart stood up. "Normally I'd go jogging in a scene like this, but after that, I'm down for as much pampering as you'd like."
"Sure!" Mind's smiled for real this time. "But where--"
Heart pointed at the nearby village and started walking.
Mind frowned at the thatched roof cottages.
Near the edge of the village, Mind could see hundreds of ponies going about their daily lives, as if they were humans. It was just like in My Little Pony, probably. Maybe she would know a bit more about what was going on if she had payed more attention to the show, but she couldn't do anything about that now.
Heart announced herself, "Hey!" She waved to the nearest pony.
Mind frowned. Everything she knew about strategy told her that they shouldn't be announcing themselves like that. The best course of action would be to corner one pony and show it that they didn't mean any harm by not killing it. With Heart announcing herself, she was making the both of them vulnerable. Then again, Heart understood matters she sometimes didn't, and even if it was the wrong method, it was best not to cry over spilled milk.
The pony turned and stared. He looked at her as if she were an incomprehensible monster. He looked like he was struggling to say something, fighting his body for control. It frustrated Mind to see something act so broken.
"Dragons!" The pony yelled.
Mind smiled, he finally did it. Wait, no, dragons? Mind checked her body. Yup, still human. It appeared the pony was still broken.
"Why does he think we're dragons?" Heart asked.
"I dunno." Mind shrugged
"Is it--" Heart smirked "--Is it because I'm such a beast?" She adjusted herself into a running stance and took on a predatory grin. While she wasn't overly muscular, she could still lift as much as men three or four times her size, and she was somewhat well defined because of it.
None of this worked well to assuage the ponies' fears.
Mind smiled and shook her head. Only a very unique girl would refer to herself as a beast. "That actually could be it. Though, it could also be your shiny jogging clothes," she thought out loud.
"--You're NOT WELCOME HERE!" A random pony shouted. Suddenly, Mind watched as a beam of energy flew past her and hit Heart in her arm, breaking it again.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Heart grabbed her arm and fell to the ground, writhing in pain.
Mind turned to the pony and stared at it blankly. She noticed it was a unicorn.
The unicorn took a step back, then steeled itself, and readied its horn for another blast.
Mind held out her arm.
The unicorn exploded.
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Mind blinked, waking herself from a strange daze. "What just happened?" she asked.
There was no answer.
There were no ponies in the field in front of her, just a large red splatter. Her eyes widened slightly.
"What...?" She tilted her head. "What did I...?" She looked at her hands. After a moment of staring, she smiled. She had power.
She looked back up at the blood all over the field. That wouldn't do. If they were to attempt peace with the ponies, it would be foolish to show off their kills.
"What did you do?" Mind heard a voice to her left. She looked down at her sister.
Heart stared up at Mind in terror. It looked like she was fighting the urge to run like the ponies did. Her arm was still broken, but it looked like she didn't even notice now.
That wasn't good at all. If she couldn't even keep her sister as an ally, how could she calm the ponies? First, she would have to do something about that terrified look on Heart's face, then she could clean up the blood behind her.
Mind sat down near her sister. "Let me get tha--"
Heart stumbled backwards and almost knocked herself out on a rock behind her. Thankfully, a pillow magically appeared on top of it.
Mind sat down and held Heart's arm in her hand once more. If she remembered correctly, Heart shouldn't feel as much pain when in stress, and tending to her would assure her that she meant no harm.
"Huh?" Heart looked down and noticed her arm was back to normal. "Oh... thanks."
Mind frowned. Something sounded off bout Heart's voice just then. "What is it?"
"You have to ask?" Heart frowned.
Mind tilted her head.
"You just killed a living, talking... thing!" Heart glared. "Just like that! Boom! Dead." Now that her arm was healed, she scooted back. "Could you-- could you do that to me?"
"Probably." Mind answered.
If anything, Heart looked like she felt even worse now.
Mind couldn't think of anything else to say that could make her sister trust her, so she hugged her and pet her head. Sometimes touch could calm others when words couldn't for some reason. Perhaps it was a similar demonstration to cornering them and killing them, but instead helping them with something.
"Thanks." Heart sighed.
"No problem." Mind released her sister. She turned around, gathered up all the gore into a ball and moved it near her. She lit a fire beneath it.
"W-- What are you doing?" Heart panicked. What was wrong now?
Mind turned to her sister and looked at her funny. "It would be wasteful to--"
"W-- Wasteful?" Heart held her palms out. "That's a living, fucking being! You don't eat it, you bury it and give it a grave or something!"
Mind thought about it. What would she do if Heart had--
Immediately, she reformed the ball into a pony shaped mass. She grabbed every shattered piece and pulled it into place, building something similar to the unicorn she remembered, then mended everything into place. She floated the pony back to where she killed it. It looked like it could get up and walk around any time.
Unfortunately, it couldn't. The brain was the only organ Mind couldn't heal. Yes, she could re-connect all the veins and arteries, but not the neurons. If she tried to heal the pony, it would at best lose all memory of who it once was and adopt a completely new personality.
She grimaced and shook her head. Thinking about Heart like that gave her a headache.
Mind sighed and picked Heart off the ground. "First..." She thought... She couldn't remove memories for the same reason she couldn't truly heal the pony in front of her. And she couldn't just kill off the whole village, or others would find her, and after she killed everyone, she would have no one to feed her or trade ideas with except Heart, and that was sub-optimal... Perhaps the solution wasn't in the ponies then.
She snapped her fingers, changing her hair from dark red to light red and smoothing out the curls. Her body shrunk in width and height, and her suit changed from brown to tan. She grinned. That formed felt much more alive. Perhaps more energy was going to her brain instead of her large stature. "First," she repeated, still grinning, "I can't use that body anymore."
"Second..." She almost snapped her fingers again to create a home, but it would be far too obvious if her home was right at the kill-sight. But despite her smaller stature, she still didn't feel like walking anymore after that trek from the forest. "Could you carry me?" She smiled sheepishly.
For some reason, what those ponies said bothered her. No, actually, it wasn't what they said. It was more that they weren't afraid of her anymore.
After she killed that foolish unicorn and changed her looks, nopony really trusted her. They couldn't really say that she was the same person, but they always looked uneasy around her. After a while they had to accept the fact that the two 'Humans' were staying in Ponyville, and they could either leave or stay with their families. Most chose to stay, especially after she repeatedly assured them that she wouldn't kill them, under any circumstance. The decision made sense when leaving the town also meant chancing death. Of course, her reassurance was a lie. If they tried to hurt Heart, she would kill them in an instant. Thankfully no one tried. Well, no one except Discord.
She was still worried about the freaky gems those two 'alicorns' used on him. While she and Discord were probably equals in power (not strength, ruthlessness, and knowledge though), those things were apparently stronger. It was lucky that she was in the jet she'd been working on for the past month, and it was even more lucky that she decided to fly out of the way of the blast radius.
But despite seeing all that, the ponies no longer feared her. Not because she was trustworthy, but because there was someone even more dangerous around now.
It was strange, feeling the urge to hide. She felt only freedom for the past few years, but now...
She waved her arm, locking the door, then adding locks and locking those locks. She also turned the walls into steel.
"Gah!" Heart shook her hands. "Another one broke! Can't you make anything stronger?"
Mind looked behind Heart at the five foot tall cube of steel sticking up out of the ground. Well, it wasn't a cube anymore. Now it looked like abstract art. Apparently it had been bent so much that the base finally snapped.
She lifted the steel column up so that five more feet stuck out. It still looked deformed. "I'm sorry," she said, frowning. "I don't know of anything stronger than steel."
Heart turned around. "Is something wrong?" She asked. Somehow she always knew Mind's feelings.
Mind sighed, "It's probably nothing, but--"
the roof exploded.
"First on my todo list!" A crazed voice shouted from above. Was that Luna? She was as large as her sister, and so much darker than normal. No, this had to be the 'Nightmare Moon' the villagers were talking about. "I'm so glad you stayed home. This makes things so much easier."
Mind tried to force the crazed alicorn away with her thoughts, but it didn't budge an inch. Instead, it threw its head back in laughter. "Is that it?" She pointed mockingly. "Is that the strength I've been worrying about!? You're like an ant to me!" She frowned as she settled on the ground in the middle of the house. "Then again, your strength was never in raw power, but precision--"
Nightmare Moon suddenly flung into the steel wall beside her headfirst, forming a massive dent. She pulled her face from the wall and touched her cheek with her hoof. Already, there was a bruise in the shape of Heart's fist. "It appears I'll have to skip the theatrics." She turned into smoke.
It looked more like she turned up the theatrics. But now that smoke was behind Heart.
A horn poked out of the swirl of stars and touched the back of Heart's head. Slowly, she turned into stone.
"Heart!" Mind reached out and grabbed her sisters hand.
Nightmare Moon stood back and watched with a goofy grin as the petrification spell spread from one sister to another via touch.
Mind concentrated. If only she could figure out how she was turning into stone. If only she could remember everything she read about petrification. Then, maybe she could--
Nightmare moon held her hoof to her head and laughed. "Two birds with one stone!" She fell back, still bellowing with triumphant laughter. "I guess I shouldn't take strategy for granite!" She stood herself up and steadied her self with a hoof on Mind's shoulder. "And now"--She slid her other hoof down Mind's face--"all your hopes are golem."
She let go, landed, and looked back at the frozen duo. "What a stiff crowd." She frowned. "Come on, don't be so coald. You'll make a very nice statue,"--Lighting her horn, she conjured rope around the frozen duo and lifted them onto a wheel'd carriage that appeared just as suddenly in front of them--" as long as you're not too tied up, I'm sure no pony could ever halite such art. Now--" She looked over at the door and noticed, with a chuckle, that it was covered in locks. Maybe if she came in through the front door she would have appreciated their efforts more. Oh well.
She obliterated the door in an instant, leaving a hole large enough for her new statue. "Now," she repeated, "shale we?" She tugged the rope.
Celestia woke up. It was the first time in forever that she'd slept in. And now she knew what crying herself to sleep felt like.
She could almost hear her sister berating her for skipping out on her duties, asking her why she would ever stop something that she got so much thanks and attention for.
She looked up. Her breath caught at what she saw.
Her sister's face curled around the face of the moon.
Why?
Why was she alone? Was she in the wrong somehow? Why did almost every other immortal end up in stone?
What 'attention' could possibly help her now? She was truly alone. Everyone she could talk to would grow old and die. And the one's that wouldn't were kept from her by some means. Heart and Mind, trapped in stone by her sister. Luna, now one with her namesake. If only she could rescue them some way. Maybe tapping on them would loosen their bonds?
No, even now, she wouldn't risk that. They would have to wait until she got the elements of harmony. Otherwise, she could seriously hurt them.
Celestia paled. She didn't control the elements anymore! Her immortal friends would be stuck in stone until the elements' effects wore off...
In about a thousand years...
Celestia wiped the sweat from her brow and smiled at the two, no three statues in front of her. But then she remembered what she had to say. She stared awkwardly for a second, then smiled at the word "Love" Nightmare Moon had mockingly put on the sisters' statue. Right now it seemed somehow fitting.
She cleared her throat. "I--" She choked. "I have some bad news." She looked between the statues. Of course none of them moved, but it felt like Discord just wished she would get on with whatever she had to say, and it felt like Heart and Mind were simply waiting for her to gather herself.
She breathed, failing to calm herself. "Unfortunately, I no longer command the elements. That means you'll kind of be stuck for... longer than I intended."
'How long?' She heard Mind ask warily. 'Why didn't you just un-petrify us before you banished your sister?' Heart complained bitterly. 'Oh joy,' Discord said sarcastically, 'more of the still-life for me.'
Celestia laughed at Discord's pun. He might have gotten along pretty well with Nightmare Moon. If only they weren't both so destructive.
Of course, she knew they probably hadn't said or thought anything, and she was just laughing at her own bad pun like some self-absorbed comedian. But she still liked it when she heard their voices. They were the only solid things in this world to her now.
But a question was asked, and it had to be answered. She gulped.
"A thousand years," she said. "You're stuck there for... a thousand years."
There was no response.
Celestia collapsed. She didn't even try to hold back her tears.
Star Swirl noticed Celestia bawling her eyes out in front of the statues again. He rushed over to her and tried to get her to stand up. When she failed to do so, he carried her instead.
"Why do you keep doing this to yourself?" He sighed.
Mind stood atop a large mountain next to her sister. They both knew none of it was real, but it was better than the boring, unchanging world around them as statues. Well, except for whenever Celestia came out. Those were certainly some... interesting... if one sided conversations.
"You forgot all the wildlife. It needs animals, and humans." Heart replied.
Mind smiled. She wasn't sure how exactly she was able to talk with her sister, but whenever they touched, they could share thoughts. However it worked, she was grateful.
Mind waved her hand, suddenly, the sky was filled with birds and the ground was filled with cities. "You know, you could do this too." She smiled.
Benjaman pushed himself off the dirt floor and looked up at his goddess, Mind, smiling devilishly. In the corner of his eye he saw the great mountain and the clock on top of it. The world clock had only four minutes left, but he was determined to make sure that when everything ended, it would end with a bang.
"You already received the highest honor. Why do you continue?" His goddess asked him in monotone as she floated to the ground.
"Because I love this!" He yelled without thinking. When he did think, his eyes widened in surprise. Yes, it really was that simple, wasn't it? But whatever the answer, that wasn't what he should have been concentrating on then.
The crowd in the Colosseum around him didn't matter. The air outside didn't even matter at that moment. All that mattered was him, his opponent, and everything else inside the boundary.
"What about you?" he yelled as he raised his arm. Suddenly, a missile appeared and flew towards Mind. It collided with a wall of reinforced steel, but instead of exploding, it began to drill its way through. Unfortunately, the steel wall turned in midair, so when the missile burrowed through the other side, it launched right at him. He re-positioned the exhaust pipe, sending it into a tail-spin.
"For my sister." Mind answered back. Was that a small involuntary smile on her face? If so, that would be the first in hundreds of years!
She snapped her fingers and created two gravity rings, one just inside the boundary, and one around herself.
Benjamin frowned as he slammed into the ground. Of course, that was all she cared about, wasn't it? The rest of the world was only facts to her. So everything he heard about her was true... Or was it?
He smiled. Why did he love this sort of thing in the first place? Was it not because his family and friends always cheered him on? After all, without them, who would he be? Would he be anyone?
"Then this is for my family too." He didn't know what frequencies of light Mind was using for her modified light-tweezer, so he simply built a ring around him that blocked every frequency. Then he mounted turrets on top to destroy the outer ring.
"You've blinded yourself." He heard his goddess speak. "That was foolish."
She was coming.
Benjamin turned the walls around him into steel, then sheets of layered graphene. He quickly remembered the top and closed that up too. It was dark, but only for a second.
Then everything went red.
Of course. She was smart. She would use whatever he built against him, just like she'd been doing the whole time. Carbon and steel could burn. All it would take was a short-lived rusting bacteria. That was nothing for someone who had supposedly finished finding the correct folding of every human protein twenty years ago.
Before he suffocated or incinerated, he desperately made an oxygen canister.
It exploded.
Benjamin blinked. The first thing he noticed was that he was in a kneeling position, with his goddess's hand on his head. The second thing he noticed was the scorch marks around him and his bunker thrown to the side.
"It appears I remember you well." Mind smiled. He swore he could even see the tell-tale crinkles around her eyes that meant actual happiness. Then again, she probably would have learned how to fake a smile better since ancient history.
He smiled dumbly back at her. How could he not? His goddess had just given him the highest praise that anyone had ever received!
Benjamin turned his head. The world clock counted ten seconds...
Fuck it.
He stood up and hugged his goddess, taking mischievous pleasure in the look of surprise on her face and the tensing of her muscles. After a couple seconds, she hugged him back.
The ground shook. Distant lands could be heard crumbling.
He hugged her tightly, now more afraid for his life than ever before.
The colosseum crumbled around him. He could see the people in the stands praying before fading out. The shielding around the boundary dissipated and everything inside faded in less than a second.
Benjamin was gone.
"I didn't know you were one for theatrics." Heart laughed. "Was that really necessary?" She had let herself fall from the stands once they dissipated, and now she was about 5 o' clock from mind.
Mind turned as a ballerina would and faced her sister. She didn't even try to hide her cheshire grin anymore as she held her hand to her forehead. "I'm sorry," she said in a lilting tone reminiscent of someone mad with power. "I just can't wait."
Heart stepped back in surprise. "Jesus! You look like a fucking monster when you do that, you know."
Mind frowned. "I don't have to hide my feelings around my own sister too, do I?"
"No." Heart sighed. "Of course not." She smiled wryly. "And I understand where you're coming from. I've done a lot of training myself, and I'd love to test out my ideas in reality. I'd also like to stretch my arms for once." She swung her right arm in a circle, then her left arm, and smiled giddily. "And now we can finally have friends that don't live in our heads."
"Uh-huh," Mind replied absentmindedly. She looked like she was concentrating on something else. Suddenly, she disappeared.
Heart frowned. That girl never seemed to care about relationships at all. The only thing that made her smile was learning, and the only person she really smiled around was Heart. Even then, she probably just liked being around Heart because she could compete with her.
Heart sighed and opened her eyes to the world outside, fading from the shared mind-space.
Mind looked at the cracking statue of Discord. 'I think we should wait,' she thought.
'uugh...' Heart thought back. 'At least make some cameras or something. I'm not just gonna watch the same place for several hours.'
'Already done,' Mind thought. 'I also added a layer of stone around us so there will be less chance of them resealing us. You're looking through a monitor now. Blink to switch views.'
Heart sent the emotion of satisfaction over the mind-link before blinking a few times. In her main view, she saw that Discord's statue was no longer full of cracks.
'And you did the same for Discord,' Heart thought. 'What are you planning?'
'Nothing.'
Heart could hear the lie in her sisters voice. 'If you're not going to tell me, why show me at all?' She felt a feeling of frustration come over. Finally, it changed to satisfaction.
'Think of it like a game you play to learn and increase your skills,' Mind thought.
'I'm not your test subject.' Heart tried to frown.
Then sadness came over. That was new. The only thing that should have made Mind sad was the prospect of there being nothing to learn about once she understood everything.
'No,' Mind thought, 'you're my opponent,'
'You're not planning on--!'
Heart felt Mind's hand slip from hers.
The statue of love stood in Canterlot gardens. Two female stridetaurs held hands, desperately trying not to be separated. It somehow fit the current stormy weather, even with its unheard of chocolate rain.
The statue exploded. Shards of cement flew everywhere, and a single stridetaur stood in the remains, hot tears trailing down its face.
Heart grit her teeth as she shook some cement dust off. But her grimace faded into a look of disbelief when she looked at the hole beside her. Where Mind should have stood, there was a circle filled with broken rocks and dirt. So, Mind burrowed away.
She contemplated chasing her, but she knew she would never catch up when her sister could just make some drilling machine, or a jet. But... Mind was the only one she knew! She didn't even have a statue like Celestia did!
