What if a human got pulled into Equestria by an evil mare bent on using him, after erasing his memories, to take over Equestria?
Amos John was just an ordinary joe kind of guy. Always busy working with the construction company as a driver and mechanic. One day, while working at Canterlot High School he gets pulled into Equestria by a dark force, erases his memories, and begins to try to control him for her own evil purposes. Without his memories he doesn't even know what he is let alone who he is. He doesn't know where he is or who he can trust and is scared out of his wits. Until a little white bunny named Angel found him and changed his life forever.
It was a hot day for work over at job site forty one twenty two for repaving the high school parking lot. Amos John sat down in front of the school’s mascot statue, a horse standing on hind legs with its front hooves lifted in the air. The statue had a big base and he was sitting up against it and took out his lunch. The crew didn’t have but thirty minutes for lunch so he always just carried it with him, which meant nothing perishable, which in turn meant nothing hot for lunch, but he managed. Most of the time he was glad to have something to eat at all with all his responsibilities, being a CDL driver with hazmat endorsement plus a mechanic on top of that he was always moving and always in demand.
Not today though as it was turning out to be a relatively slow day. After doing his servicing rounds in the morning, which included fueling all the rigs at the various sites and checking all the oils and water, usually it was either the shop for fixing breakdowns or in the field running some of the rigs on site after the morning services. So here he was at one of the jobs running one of the rollers to compact the base before the oil layer was laid down then after that the asphalt. This time was the perfect time to repave the parking lot, being summer and all the kids are away from the construction zone.
After finishing his small lunch he took a breath closing his eyes and sighed enjoying the few rare minutes to relax against the statue as the hot summer breeze brushed across his face. Luckily the statue provided good shade and it was almost pleasant, like it was watching over him.
Canterlot Castle, Mirror Room
The mirror, which lead to the human world, stood silently watching over the room of antiquities. Filled with other artifacts various in nature all of which, if lead into the wrong hooves, could pose real danger to Equestria, or to other worlds.
Some of the artifacts were just unknown, some with a language never seen before, some are protected artifacts from other magical ponies like Starswirl the Bearded. From the silence of the room came a soft creaking when the door opens slowly. Light from the hallway eagerly entered the room just waiting to see and explore.
“Alright my little ponies,” Princess Celestia said standing in front of the door. “This is one of the most protected rooms in the castle, which is why I picked the best and the brightest of the students to see it. As you would respect what is in this room and not to touch anything.” Celestia said as the doors creaked open slowly letting the light fill the room and getting oohs and aahs from the little ponies.
“What is in this room,” Celestia continues as they walked into the room, “needs to be protected at all times.”
“Why is that Princess Celestia?” One little filly asked.
Celestia turns toward the small crowd of little ponies with the serious I mean business look that everyone in Equestria is so use to, “Because some are very dangerous, some are even completely unknown, and some are prized possessions.”
“Princess Celestia?” one little filly unicorn asked while looking at a strange perfectly round orb sitting on a pedestal underneath a glass dome. Its color shined dimly almost like a dark pearl, “What is this one?”
“That one my dear,” Celestia said, “no one really knows. It was found at the edge of Equestria and brought here for safekeeping and study. No one could figure out its purpose because there are no writings on it, but there is a strange dormant power inside, so it stays here.”
Under the wows from the group the same little filly unicorn spoke again but with a curious and cautious voice, “Um, Princess Celestia? Some writing just appeared and I can’t read it.” The little unicorn paused as Celestia trotted over. “Oh wait,” the little filly unicorn continues as the letters change for her on its own, “Never mind. It says, ‘A kingdom rises, a kingdom falls, Destiny is forever do you see not all? Now bring forth from time and space the one who is to test this place.”
As soon as the little unicorn finishes she is shocked by the sudden light that comes from the orb and races behind the princess, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
The Princess hurries the little ones out of the room, “I’m sorry but the tour is over,” she then looks at one of the guards, “Take them back to their classroom and post a guard here at the door nothing goes in or out except me and Luna.” The guard salutes and trots off with the kids giving commands on the way.
Celestia turns around going back inside just in time to see a dark ray of magic hit the mirror. The mirror hums slightly then falls silent as it activates to the other world and the Princess looks on and wonders, Is Equestria going to be tested? How? Why? And by Whom?
Human World
Amos John was about the get up as his lunch break was coming to an end when he was suddenly struck from behind by an unseen force. It felt like hitting the ground from a one story building almost knocking the wind out of him. Complete shock filled his face as he notices almost in slow motion the dark aura surrounding him, then pulling him backward into the statues base. The world goes completely dark as if in a dream and the other world and his memories of it start to fade away. “What…what is…this?” He starts to panic as the memories slip away and he then feels his body changing, he can’t see but he can feel himself changing, “No…my name is…Amos….,” his legs shorten and he feels his arms lengthen, a pain on his back and forehead, “my name…my name…is…,” all goes black as he passes out in the blackness.
Canterlot
Princess Celestia watches the mirror shine seeing a figure appear from within it, the dark magic engulfing the figure laying it on the floor of the room. Once on the floor the dark energy dissipates and retreats back into the orb then shatters into dust.
The princess gets a little closer to the figure noticing it’s unconscious, then hearing the door open and feeling it’s her sister Luna, “What is it sister? I heard…,” Luna pauses beside her sister looking at the figure.
“Is that?” Luna starts staring at the figure.
“Yes dear sister,” Celestia looks closely at the pony with a light purple coat with a blue and purple swirling tail and mane with light purple wings and a blue and purple horn to match and on his flank appears a heart with a wrench inside, “it’s a male alicorn.”
They moved the new alicorn to a secure room where there were twice the normal amount of guards at the door, which was sealed and locked, then both Luna and Celestia put spells around the room. “You think this will be sufficient sister?” Luna said looking at the male alicorn still unconscious on the bed.
“Well, let’s see,” Celestia started, “A spell to suppress magic and a spell of containment both by you and by me overlapping one another. Yes it should suffice for now at least.”
“We don’t know who he is sister or what this ‘test’ entails?”
“That’s all true sister, but if we are to be ‘tested’ as the orb suggests then putting him in the dungeon would not shed a good light upon us, but on the other hoof it was dark magic which brought this alicorn to us which means taking the best precautions possible.”
The princesses turn and head out the door and to other business while the guards snap to attention.
His head was pounding when he slowly opened his eyes to find himself laying on a bed inside an elegant room. Everything around him seems to be of the finest material he noticed looking around the room. “Where am I,” he thought to himself as he tried to stand but too wobbly and laid down again. Trying to remember what happened he suddenly realized that he couldn’t remember anything that happened. To his fright he couldn’t remember anything at all, who he is, what his name is, even what he is. Taking a few minutes to really examine himself he realized at least what he was and deep down he had a small feeling that it just wasn’t right, it wasn’t what he was supposed to be.
After a little bit he was finally able to stand and make his way off the bed, luckily being low to the floor. Still a little shaky he heads to the door and knocks, “Hello? Is anypony there?” He heard some mumbling and the sound of hoof beats running away. Suddenly feeling a little weary he steps away from the door now feeling like he shouldn’t be here. Walking to the window he looks out while that uneasiness gets worse and panic starts to kick in.
After a minute the door opens and he jumps back being startled in his panicked state seeing two female ponies also with wings and a horn on their foreheads. “Who are you,” he started backing away from them and moving behind the bed, “What do you want with me?”
Luna stepped forward, “Who are you?”
“I…,” he said staying on the other side of the bed from them, “don’t know. Besides I asked first.”
“What is the last thing you remember?” Celestia asked.
He thought a minute, “Waking up here. I don’t know who I am, what I am or even where I am. Can I go now? I really shouldn’t be here.”
The panic was very evident to the both of them as they turned speaking softly to one another, “He doesn’t seem to know anything, which is quite unusual.” Celestia said to Luna.
“Could it be because of how he got here and the effects of the dark magic?”
Celestia nodded, “That very well may be the case, but at the moment I don’t feel anything evil do you?”
Luna shook her head, “No I do not sister.”
“Excuse me,” he interrupted and the sisters looked to him, “can I go now?”
“NO,” they said in unison, “We must figure out what to do with you.”
He was shocked, “What do you mean what to do with me? What did I do? So am I your prisoner? I can’t even remember who I am.” Upon saying that last word and without even thinking it he bucked the wall behind him and it cracked just a little, “Uh oh.” He thought to himself, I’m dead for sure.
“Look sister,” Luna stood shocked at the crack in the wall.
“How is that possible?” Celestia said quietly examining the possibilities.
He looked back then said sheepishly, “I’ll fix it, I will. I’m good at fixing things.” He stopped for a second, “Wait, am I? Who cares I’ll learn just, just let me go I promise I won’t tell.”
Celestia looks at the frightened alicorn, closes her eyes and her horn glows as she takes down the spells she put over the room then looks to Luna, “Sister take down the spells please.”
The male alicorn looks to the tall white alicorn in surprise, “You mean you’re really letting me go?”
“You really are letting him go sister?” Luna asked echoed in astonishment.
Celestia nodded her head, “I’m not going to keep you prisoner and you are too frightened to be of any use and you don’t even have your memory. I offer your freedom and in return I ask then when you start to remember who you are and why you are here to come see me at once.” Celestia looked to her sister.
Luna hesitantly takes down the barriers surround the room.
“You are really letting me go?” he says backing up to the balcony glass doors then opening them with his hoof. His mind still too frightened with this instinct to run coursing through him he finds himself being lifted off the balcony with his wings but at this moment he doesn’t question it but flies off away from the castle.
“Sister,” Luna still in astonishment looks to her sister, “pray tell me your thoughts. You let him go?”
Celestia nodded, “If we are to be tested then let us be tested by the good and not the evil within us.”
^_^
He was glad to get out of the castle, but still this thought the he shouldn’t be here and shouldn’t even be flying was hard to get out of his mind. So many questions raced through his mind, Who was he? What was he? Where was he? He soon saw a forest down below and he descended into the heart of it and into a small clearing. “Finally a place that I can sit and think a little away from that castle. I can’t remember anything, not even my name, why?”
He sat down in the clearing to try and calm himself down and finding it oddly comfortable to fold his hind and forelegs under him. “I just have the strangest feeling that this is just all wrong,” he said mostly to himself looking himself over once again at his wings then feeling his forehead for the horn. He puts his head on the ground, “Great just great. Here I am a lonely horse creature with wings and a horn sitting in the middle of this,” he looks around, “weird forest all controlled by two female creatures like me.” The panic starts to subside after a little while though the feeling that he shouldn’t even be here still remains in the back recesses of his mind.
“Ok, come on…uh,” he looks himself over and seeing something on his side just above his hind legs, “a heart with something inside it. What is it? A wrench. Wait, how do I know that? Is that my name? Wrench Heart? Suppose it’s a good a name as any other. Now, Wrench Heart, what am I going to do with myself?”
Only after a couple of days he found out much about the forest. Walking around the forest he found himself quickly acclimating himself on what to eat, not to eat and where he could sleep and find water. One day even running across the timber wolves and finding out how they just repair themselves after being broken apart finally having to just run for it.
He was beginning to wake up from a long needed sleep after a couple of days battling with those timber wolves when he felt a soft tap against his head. Something small and furry was patting his head, “Hmm?” He mumbled coming out of his sleep and he opened his eyes to see a small bunny looking at him with a question seeming to be on its mind while pointing a single small paw to him.
“Me?” he asked then seeing the bunny nodded, “I wish I knew.” Sighing he lifted his head looking around then looking to the bunny again, “I don’t know who I am or even where I am. I’m a lost horse I guess with wings and a horn on my head.” For once he smiled just a little, “At least you’re not trying to keep my prisoner or anything, and then again the Princesses did let me go.”
The bunny tilted its head to one side blinking then putting paw to its head rubbing in a quizzical manner.
“The first thing I remember is waking up in the castle in a room guarded and sealed like a prisoner just not in a dungeon. I get the feeling that’s where they wanted me in the first place but why? It’s so frightening not knowing anything,” he continued to speak looking at the little bunny, “not knowing who to trust or…” he gets stopped mid-sentence as the bunny looks him in the eyes and putting a paw on his nose. Seeming to understand he says, “You want me to trust you?”
The bunny nods in response.
He sighs seeming to calm a little, “Ok, I can’t stay here forever and I’m going to need help sometime, so I’ll trust you.”
The bunny smiles then they both hear a soft voice calling out, “Angel. Where are you? You know not to run off into the dark and…scary forest alone.”
When the bunny hears the voice he points toward the voice then to the alicorn then to the voice again.
“You want me to go toward the voice?”
The bunny nods then jumps onto the alicorn’s shoulder and taps it with his hind foot a couple of times as if to say let’s go.
“Ok,” the alicorn stands up with the bunny on his shoulders, “if you want me to.” He heads in the direction of the voice going into the forest again from the clearing.
^_^
Fluttershy looks around the forest getting more upset with Angel for running off again, “I don’t know how many times I’ve told him not to run off into the forest alone.” She wasn’t that far into it and she could still see the edge of the forest still under broad daylight she wasn’t fully scared yet, but she still didn’t want to go even an inch into the forest. For Angel, though, she would go anywhere, “Angel,” she calls out again.
Soon she hears some rustling of the bushes just up ahead and she calls out again, “Angel?”
What comes out of the bushes frightens yet astonishes her. A tall male alicorn that is light purple in color with wings and a horn. At first almost mistaking him for Twilight then noticing otherwise. She was about to run when she saw Angel on his shoulders pointing to her. His height was somewhere between Luna and Celestia and not quite as built like Big Mack either, but still looking stout and a little foreboding. As he came further she started toward him, “Angel you’re ok and who is this?”
She notices that this alicorn is hurt with some scratches all around his body. The evidence of his attempt at self-cleaning was clear with his mane starting to mat together in some places. The alicorn stops walking and mutters something to Angel and sees Angel nod and points to her again.
He comes close to the young female pegasus that is yellow in color with a two tone pink color tail and mane. Angel hops onto his nose and pats his foot down a couple of times and he lowers himself close to her. As Angel hops off and onto the pegasus he speaks softly and hesitantly, “Um…Your friend here said that I could trust you.”
Fluttershy looks up to the alicorn curious yet frightened then looks to Angel as the bunny tells her what he found out about the alicorn. “You need help then?” She calms down knowing that Angel was fine with this alicorn even though he does look scary.
“I…I don’t know who I am or where I am. I don’t know who to trust other than your friend here and if he says I can trust you then…well. Then I need help,” he says a little shyly to the young pegasus.
Fluttershy looks on in a little astonishment at how Angel could have found him and befriended this alicorn, “Well then, I’m not one to turn down somepony asking for help.”
“Thanks,” he said to her then hearing a howl he looks to her earnestly, “I think we should get out of here now. Those wolf things will be back soon and I’d rather not tangle with them again.”
The two of them start to leave the clearing with Angel riding Fluttershy.
Soon they arrive at her cottage, “Here come inside and I’ll help clean you up and dress those wounds. Oh, uh…if that’s ok…Mister.….,” she trails off trying to get his name.
He looks to her sadly, “I don’t know who I am or even what I am for that matter. I call myself Wrench Heart sense that is what is on me, this symbol that is.”
“What?” she asks surprised at the answer, “You have no memory?”
He shakes his head.
“Well, then come inside then and I’ll help you get cleaned up and dress those wounds and then I have a friend that can answer some of your questions. It’s nice to meet you Wrench Heart,” she says and opens the door.
After he’s inside he stops noticing all of the animals inside and takes a minute to look around as she closes the door and prepares a tub, “You live with all these animals?”
“Oh yes,” she says heading to the back upper room where the tub is, “they are all my friends. I have the ability to talk to all sorts of animals.”
“Really?” he says, “Wow, amazing.” He notices her coming out of the back upper room, “Thank you for your help.”
Fluttershy motions him to the room, “You are welcome. Now the tub is ready so let’s get you cleaned then I’ll dress the wounds.”
He starts to the room then stops by her, “By the way. What’s your name?”
“Fluttershy,” she says without hesitation and even without hardly any shyness which surprises her. Usually she can hardly speak around strangers but with this one she finds she is almost as open with him as with her other friends.
“Fluttershy,” he says softly then smiles, “I like that name. It’s pretty.” He says the last two words out without really wanting to but they come out anyway and he blushes but doesn’t know it.
“Thank you,” she says also blushing, “Now let’s get this done. Go on now into the bath.”
He smiles and puts one hoof into the tub then shivers, “A little cold.”
She smiles back and softly but sternly says looking him in the eyes, “In.”
Feeling a little nervous a little like a child would toward a parent he gets in but a little too quickly as the water splashes her a little, “Oh, I’m sorry.” He says ducking lower into the water.
She smiles and shakes herself some, “It’s ok, now go on and clean up and come out when you’re done.”
He sees her start to leave, “Wait…please.” Feeling embarrassed for not knowing but says it anyway, “I don’t know how.”
Fluttershy turns around surprised again, “You really don’t know?”
He shakes his head, “I don’t even know what I am let alone anything else. I don’t know why.”
She comes up to him, “You’re an alicorn.”
“Alicorn?” he asks tilting his head a little, “What’s that?”
“An alicorn is a pony that has wings like a pegasus like me and a horn like a unicorn. The alicorns usually are only in royal families.”
He listens intently, “Really?”
She nods and shows him the basics on what to do while he in turn tells her everything he has experienced at this point. When she is satisfied he can do all for himself she leaves him shutting the door behind her, “Angel?”
The little bunny hops up to her as she asks, “Would you go and get Twilight while I watch over him please?” He nods hopping off.
A little while later the door opens from the back upper room and he stands in the doorway, “Well, how did I do?”
Fluttershy walks up to him and does a quick inspection, “That will do. Now come over here and I’ll put on the bandages.” She trots over to a little table setup with oil and bandages.
He walks over and sits down on the floor wincing slightly.
“Spread your wings so I can look at them.”
He does so slowly as to not hit anything and notices how calm he is becoming under her ministrations. Looking around the place, as she works on his wings then starting on his back, he notices how the animals around them seems to be helping her with getting stuff for her and preparing things. A feeling flows over him and closes his eyes and he feels this is a safe haven of sorts and whispers, “Finally,” ever so softly under his breath.
“I’m sorry I didn’t hear you,” Fluttershy says as she puts some healing oil just above his nose.
“I feel like this is a place that I can relax in and feel safe.” As he says the last two words he opens his eyes just when she is placing a bandage on just above his nose and blushes noticing how close she is and her pretty bluish green eyes.
After putting on the bandage she then notices how close they are to each other and for a couple of seconds she freezes with her nose just inches from his and blushes looking into his dark red eyes.
Right then the door opened and Twilight, Spike and Angel appeared in the doorway, “Ok Fluttershy why’d you ask me to come…here?” Twilights’ voice rises in pitch at the last word seeing the sight before her. Astonished at both the male alicorn and seeing twilight here with it and so close together.
“I’m sorry,” both the Alicorn and Fluttershy say at the same time retreating from one another in embarrassment.
“Oh Twilight,” Fluttershy goes to her friend, “This is the reason I asked you here. He doesn’t remember anything, not even his name and I thought you might be able to help.”
After Twilight overcomes the shock at seeing another alicorn like her, and a male to boot, she starts spatting out question after question on how he got here, why is he here then commenting about going back to her library for further study.
“I don’t know, I’m sorry I don’t have any answers for you,” he says in a baritone voice. Then noticing they both have marks on their flanks like him, “But I have this symbol or something in the same place as yours,” he turns, “A heart with a wrench inside.”
“What’s a wrench?” Twilight asks taking a closer look
“I’m not sure but when I look at it that is what comes to mind,” he tells her, “I guess I’m Wrench Heart.”
“Could be, but normally it’s just showing your special talent not your name, right Twilight?” Fluttershy asks.
“You’re right Fluttershy, but I’ve never seen or even heard of a cutie mark like that before.”
“Cutie…Mark?” Heart asks looking at Twilight with his head tilted slightly.
“Yes,” Twilight says, “This is your Cutie Mark it shows what your special talent is but I have no idea what it means. All this is very fascinating.”
“Well how did you get here?” the small dragon spoke up.
“I don’t know,” Heart says and tells the story again.
“That’s strange,” Spike spoke again, “why did the princesses want to keep you locked up and why did they set you free? I don’t get it.”
“Neither do I spike. This is all not normal. I’ll have to inquire with Princess Celestia.”
Hearing that Heart quickly speaks up, “Oh please no, I don’t want to go back to that castle again.” The feeling of panic and uncertainty starts to come back again, “I just can’t. I’m too afraid. Please just let me stay here with Fluttershy.”
Twilight looks to Heart then to Fluttershy which asks her if he can stay at least a little bit longer then she breaks down with a frustrated sound, “Ok fine just a little while longer until I can get some answers.”
Fluttershy hugs Twilight, “Oh thank you Twilight he’ll be good I promise won’t you Wrench Heart?” she asks turning to him.
He nods in agreement, “The best that I can be.”
“Ok then he’s your responsibility Fluttershy,” she says then heads to the door, “I’ll go back and look in the library to see what I can find. Come on Spike.”
Spike jumps onto her back, “Right with you Twilight.” Then the both of them are off to Twilight’s castle.
“Oh Wrench Heart,” Fluttershy speaks up, “It’s time to feed the ducks at the lake. You want to come with me and help?”
He smiles getting up, “Sure I do. Lead the way.”
He helps her get the feed ready and insists that he carry it on his back and on the way over the lake she tells him about Equestria and its various other lands around but goes into detail about Ponyville. She tells him about Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack.
“The Elements of Harmony?” he asks as they reach the lake and she uses her wing to spread the food and he follows suit.
She explains about the Elements of Harmony and how she is the Element of Kindness and listening to her speak of her element he can see how she fits it to a “T”. They spend the day at the lake as she explains more about life in Ponyville and what she knowns about Equestria, the two Princesses, and where she was from in Cloudsdale up in the sky.
“Wow,” he says listening, “A city in the sky? Can I go and see sometime?”
She smiles, “Sure. Sense you are a winged pony, in this case an alicorn then you will be able to walk on clouds.”
“Amazing,” he looks up at the sky, “Listening to you talk of this world just makes me like it more and more. It sounds like such a wonderful land to live in.”
She looks to him and smiles, “I think this place is just wonderful, especially with my friends here. We have had our share of problems to overcome, but with the help of my friends we all have overcome them and grown stronger together.” She then starts to sing the song, “There’s music in the treetops and there’s music in the vail.”
As she sings he can’t help but look on as the song she sings fills his ears watching as the animals react enjoying the sweet melody and soothing nature of her voice. He can’t help but sigh and close his eyes taking in the peaceful melody and atmosphere. Soon the song ends and he opens his eyes with him looking her in the eyes, “That was simple beautiful singing.”
“Oh, thank you,” she says softly, “I can’t sing in front of a big audience just yet though a small crowd of my best friends I’m fine with.”
“Really?” He says a little surprised, “Well, I wouldn’t worry I know you’ll get there someday. I mean just look at me, in just a little over a week I went from being terrified hiding in the forest to being here spending the most wonderful time with you on this beautiful day.”
“Oh thank you and yes I’ll get there someday but like I told them, ‘Baby steps everypony, baby steps.’” She looks up and sees the sun beginning to set, “Oh, I think it’s time to head back, it’s getting dark.”
He follows her to the cottage and as they get there he gets an idea, “Fluttershy?” He asks her looking at the setting sun then looking up at the roof.
She stops and looks to him, “Yes?”
“Would you like to watch the sunset with me on the roof?” He looks to her smiling and slowly hovers to the roof. Then seeing her softly say yes to him and follows him up to the roof and sitting down next to him. As the sun begins to set all different colors come out as the rays of the sun shines above the land of Equestria. Yellows, reds, oranges of different shades come out to play with each other as they scatter across the sky dancing around the clouds.
“Beautiful.” Fluttershy says watching the sky light up with color.
“Yeah,” he says taking a quick look to her and her eyes, “Beautiful.” Then looking back before she notices.
Soon the sun sets and the last bit of light fades and the cold and color of the night starts to fill the sky, “It’s time to go in Heart. Starting to get cold.” She says softly and flaps her way down to the door, “Come on in.”
He flaps down to the door and goes into the cottage.
“Ok why don’t you take the bed, I think you might need it because of your bandages.” Fluttershy says to him.
“Oh I can’t do that.” Heart retorts, “This is your place and I just can’t put you out of your own bed, I just can’t do it. I’ll be fine with a couple of thick blankets trust me. I would feel guilty if I put you out.”
She thinks a second, “You sure?”
“I’m sure.”
She smiles and sighs, “Ok then.” A minute later she comes back with a couple of thick blankets one laid out to sleep on and the other to cover himself with.
“Thank you Fluttershy for everything, I feel like the luckiest pony alive. I’ll be fine here, thank you.”
“Alright Wrench Heart, good night.” She says heading to her room.
Wrench Heart lays on the blanket then using his wings he manages to get the other blanket over him then lays down his head and for the first time since he arrived in this land called Equestria he fell asleep peacefully.
Spike was just beginning to come out of his sleep when he felt something like gas build up and a couple of seconds later he belches out a letter and he’s fully awake looking at it, “Well, that’s one way to wake me up in the morning.” Spike picks up the letter heading to the door and just when his claw almost reaches the knob the door gets thrust open and he gets pinned between it and the inside wall of the castle.
Twilight looks around the room looking for Spike but all she hears is, “This just isn’t my morning.” Coming from behind the door. She closes the door and uses her magic to unroll the letter from Celestia, “I’m sorry Spike I’ll make it up to you.” She reads the letter as it tells about the first happenings inside the mirror room to when the alicorn left the castle, “Well Spike, that answers some things anyway. I’m glad she sent me this because I couldn’t find anything at least now I can search for a mysterious black orb. I don’t think it would be any good to ask Wrench Heart sense he has lost his memory, so I guess it’s back to the library.” She says to Spike leaving and shutting the door behind her.
“Maybe now I can get a little bit more sleep before the chores.” he mumbles laying down for just a few more minutes.
As Twilight searches in the library Applejack is on her way over to Fluttershy’s cottage.
“Whoowee, I sure will need Fluttershy’s help for this year’s apple cider season.” She says coming up to the cottage door, “I know what I’ll do. I reckon I can surprise her with a delicious apple breakfast.” She opens the door, “To get her in the mood.” She steps in and toward the kitchen, “Now then where are those app…,” she gets cut off by tripping over something and landing with a thud on the wooden floor. “What the…,” She says standing up and looking at this thing stirring from underneath the blanket.
All of a sudden he was woken up with a jolt by something hitting him and hearing something hit the ground. Still in a half asleep haze he opens his eyes a little raising his head enough to slur out, “Fluttershy? I’m sorry did I trip you?” Turning his head still in a haze and thinking he sees Fluttershy, “Sorry Fluttershy,” he says standing up to rub the sleep out of his eyes so he can see straight and letting the blanket fall off of him so he can stretch.
“What….,” Applejack says as she sees an alicorn, that is obviously not Twilight stand up. “In…,” then seeing this male alicorn stretch out its wings which nearly cover the width of the kitchen, which is almost two and half ponies side by side. She hears him apologize to Fluttershy, “Tarnation.”
He finishes stretching and blinks a few times to get the sleep water out of his eyes then turns around, “I’m sorry that…,” he stops to see a light yellow colored pony with a hat on her head. Tilting his head he tries to remember how she described her friends, “Hat…which one…,”
“Huh?” Applejack retorts.
“Ah, you must be…Apple…jack. Applejack. Right?” he says nearly one hundred percent sure of himself on this one.
“Yeah, just who wants to know? Who are you and what are you doing in Fluttershy’s cottage? Wait…you friendly? Because if you aren’t you’re about to be in a mess of trouble,” Applejack says getting into her let’s get it on fighting stance.
He backs up to the wall, “Wait…yes I’m friendly,” he says with a scared light laugh, “very friendly.”
“Applejack,” Fluttershy says from the doorway, “now stop it you’re scaring him.”
Applejack’s jaw almost hits the floor watching Fluttershy walk up to stand beside this mysterious new alicorn, “What? I’m scaring him? Look at him. He’s bigger than me and you and looks like he can take on Big Mac without breaking a sweat and you say I’m scaring him?” She feels something light hit her on the side of the head and turning to see Angel with a small pile of grapes.
“Yes,” Fluttershy retorts, “you are scaring him.” She halfway turns to him using her wing to calm him, “Angel found him in the forest hurt, scared and alone with no memory at all. So, he’s going to stay here until we find out what’s going on.”
“Thanks,” he says to Fluttershy.
“You sure about this sugar cube?” Applejack retorts, “We don’t know anything about him. Heck does he even know how he got here?”
Shaking his head, “I don’t. Sorry.”
“He could be dangerous you know,” Applejack reiterates.
“Now he’s been nothing but a gentlepony and kind since he we met and he’s my friend, so I want you two to be friends as well,” Fluttershy tells her firmly.
“Well,” Applejack looks to him, “if you say so sugar cube then that’s good enough for me. What’s your name partner?”
“I don’t know. I have no memory before I woke up at the castle locked in a room, but I’m calling myself Wrench Heart for now based on this cutie mark because other than that I don’t know what my real name is.”
Applejack now begins to see the underlying fright and even terror behind those dark red eyes, “If I was to lose my memory and not even know my own name then I think I’d be scared too. Sorry about coming on to you like that.”
“Thank you,” he says quietly.
“Good,” Fluttershy speaks up, “now why were you in here Applejack?”
“Oh,” she says with a light short laugh, “dang near forgot with seeing this big guy here. I was going to make you an apple breakfast to get you in the mood to accept my offer of you helping me with this year’s apple cider season.”
“Oh, well I would like to but I think that I should stay here and help him recover.”
“Yeah speaking of him,” Applejack looks to him, “if you can’t remember anything then how the heck did you get here?”
“I think I can answer that one.”
They all turn to see Twilight standing in front of a closing door behind her, “I did a little digging and long ago there was a black orb that was found in the edge of Equestria. It didn’t have any markings or anything on it, but they felt a faint dark energy from it so they sent it to the castle for safe keeping,”
“That doesn’t sound good,” he says quietly listening intently.
“Which is why it was locked in the mirror room,” Twilight continues now unfolding the letter from Celestia, “Now to the letter Princess Celestia sent me.”
Hearing that he gets a little nervous but tries to contain it.
“It says here,” Twilight continues, “that when one of the fillies from school looked at it the writing appeared then translated itself. She then read it unknowing what it would do and according to the letter it glowed with a dark aura sending energy into the mirror activating it.”
“So wait,” Applejack spoke up, “I remember that mirror. You used it to get your crown back from that human world right?”
“Yep.”
“So does that mean he’s really a human?” it was Fluttershy’s turn to speak up looking to him.
“I think so yes,” Twilight said, “Then why doesn’t he remember anything?”
“Wait…,” Applejack said with a little confusion on her face, “If he’s human then how come he looks like this?”
“Well, when I went into the human world I then turned into a human with what they call arms and legs, so being logical if a human was to enter into Equestria he then would turn into a pony to fit in.”
“Why an alicorn though,” Fluttershy looks to him in asking.
“That I don’t know. It all could be because of the orb, but without further knowledge there’s no way to really tell for sure.” Twilight looks to him thinking, “All that the Princesses said was that on the orb it spoke of this world being tested.”
“What!?” all three said in unison.
“Wait…,” he says with a sudden horrific realization, “If the orb said this world was to be tested and the orb brought me here then…,” He looks to Fluttershy then the other two, “I’m the test.”
Applejack and Twilight look to him with dark possibilities running through their minds, but Fluttershy looks to him sweetly, “I don’t know about this test, but I do know him and he’s been nothing but kind and gentle the whole time and I know without any doubt that’s the kind of pony he is.” She doesn’t know why but she touches her hoof to the side of his head gently, “I believe in you Wrench Heart, even if you are human and even if a dark orb brought you here that’s not who you are I know it.”
He looks into her beautiful bluish green eyes and the horror and panic starts to dissipate and the calm that was before starts to return, “Fluttershy,” he says shakily then takes a breath letting the calm return and keeping his eyes on hers, “Thank you.”
Applejack and Twilight look between them with awe in what they are witnessing.
“Talk about taming the wild beast,” Applejack says just so that Twilight will here and all Twilight does is nod her head in agreement.
He was glad to be helping out at Sweet Apple Acres so as to get his mind off of the revelations he got this morning. A bruised apple can flying at him and he carefully aimed the bucket so it would land right in it with a squishy soft thud.
“Two points there Wrench Heart”
“Thanks Applejack I think I’m getting the hang of it,” Heart says as he has been watching Apple Bloom so as to get what’s going on. Before he arrived the other three consisting of Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash were all introduced privately. Pinkie Pie wanted to throw a welcoming party right after cider season, Rarity was already thinking about some clothes for him and they both seemed to take it relatively well after the shock and awe. Rainbow Dash not so much, she was still weary of him. Based off of what Fluttershy told him about her that was to be expected considering she was the element of Loyalty, she would naturally be very protective of her friends. He took a minute to remember the conversation they had alone.
“Who are you?”
He shook his head, “I’m calling myself Wrench Heart due to the cutie mark, but other than that I don’t know what my real name is.”
“What are you doing here?”
“In Equestria or at Sweet Apple Acres?”
“Equestria.”
“I don’t know.”
“Sweet Apple Acres then.”
“Helping out.”
“Where did you come from?”
“Well,” he thought for a second, “according to Twilight I came from the human world.”
“Well, I’m keeping my eye on you buster.”
“Thanks.”
“Huh? If you step outside of any line you’ll have to answer to me.”
“Thank you Rainbow, I appreciate it,” he says walking off to his first assignment.
She hovers there perplexed at his answers, “He thanked me? Just who is this pony anyway?”
“Heads up Wrench Heart,” he hears from Applejack seeing a bruised apple fly to him and just makes it in time, “Keep that head out of the clouds.”
“Sorry,” he says to her now fully attentive to his duties. While he was helping Applejack and Apple Bloom with the bruised apples, Rainbow Dash was helping Big Mac with the rest of the harvest, and Rarity with Fluttershy was helping Granny Smith with choosing the best of the harvested apples.
It was late in the day when it was finally all done as they gathered around the baskets of good and bruised apples and Applejack spoke up with pride, “That was some mighty fine work y’all, couldn’t have done it without you. Good thing too because I think there looks to be a storm on the horizon.” They all gave a cheer with a good day of hard work well done, “Now let’s all go in for a little celebrating and good eats to end the day.”
They all gave a cheer again and headed into the house. The food was soon served and most of it was apple related naturally, but it was good none the less. He looked around and realized it was more of a family here than just friends. Pinkie Pie wanting to eat up everything in sight while Rainbow Dash using a type of food defense to keep her from getting all of it. Rarity while was her usual lady like self and saying “Now that’s not polite Pinkie” every time Pinkie went to grab something instead of asking. Meanwhile Twilight, Applejack and Fluttershy took their time eating what they wanted and talking all among themselves. Finishing what he wanted Heart sat back and watched the group of friends and just loving the atmosphere of family in the house allowing him to be a part of something so special. He can see why they are protective of each other and why their friendship is so strong. By accident he might have come to this world but he’s grateful that he can have a small taste of what this world has to offer.
“Mister Heart,” coming out of his daydream of sorts he hears an older voice speak to him, “Would you help collect the dishes.”
“Oh Granny,” Applejack laughs lightly, “There’s no need for that we can handle it.”
“Oh no,” he speaks up with delight, “I would love to help.” He moves away from the table and starts to collect the dishes by spreading out his wings and Twilight uses her magic to place them carefully on his wings to carry into the kitchen. After a couple of trips the table is cleared and offers his help cleaning the dishes but gets ushered into finishing up cleaning the dining room.
Seeing Rarity and Twilight using their magic to move the brooms he can’t help but get curious, “Um Miss Twilight?”
She giggles a little, “Just Twilight is fine.”
“Twilight,” he smiles, “I was wondering if I have any magic?”
Twilight looks to him with a tinge of concern all this considering, but yielding, “I’m sure you do. You are an alicorn like me. All alicorns and unicorns have magic. Why? Are you interested in learning?”
“I am, if that is ok.”
“Tell you what,” Twilight says to him, “I’ll think it over and if it’s ok I’ll get some things ready and come and get you in the morning.”
“Ok, thank you Twilight.” He smiles and goes about helping with the cleanup and soon the dining room was all clean, the dishes were done, and the sun was setting on the horizon.
“Well, y’all,” Applejack says to the group at the door, “it’s been a hootin’ good time today. We got all the apples picked and separated into the barn and had an absolutely wonderful dinner.” She then hears the thunder in the distance, “In good time too. Y’all better get home before this storm hits.”
“Good idea,” Rarity pipes up, “I wouldn’t want this beautiful mane to get ruined.”
“Oh Rarity,” Applejack laughs lightly, “Good night y’all”
They all say their good nights and head to their homes and on the way Heart tells Fluttershy about him wanting to learn magic.
“You think I would be any good at it?” he asks her.
“Oh I think you would be great at it.”
“Thanks, I was just thinking that it might help in some ways. I’ve been so grateful that your friends have opened up to me.” He pauses for a second thinking of Rainbow Dash, “Well, mostly anyway.”
“Oh, don’t worry you have proven to be a good pony.”
“That’s the only way I want it to be,” he approaches the door to the cottage and opens the door for her bowing and ushering her inside with a smile.
She blushes and giggles lightly, “Oh, why thank you kind sir.” She goes into the cottage.
After he shuts the door he hears the storm almost overhead, “Made it just in time,” he says as they both look out of the window.
“Looks like it. Good night Wrench Heart,” she says then heads to her room.
“Good night Fluttershy,” he says to her and gets comfortable in between the two blankets again taking a yawn and a stretch then settles in listening to the storm build outside.
As the storm rages overhead crash after crash of lightning and thunder seems to rock the small town of Ponyville, but inside Fluttershy’s small cottage he sleeps soundly. The crackling of the storm doesn’t seem to affect him whatsoever and the rain pours on down onto the town and onto the small cottage.
About halfway through the night he wakes up to feel something shaking against him. Turning his head he sees Fluttershy, “Are you ok?” he asks just as another crack of lightning strikes.
She shrieks as the lightning strikes, “No, can I stay with you?”
He just smiles and lifts the blanket and in a flash she was shivering up against him, “its ok.” Reassuring her as he lowers the blanket to cover her just when another crash of lightning strikes and she buries her head against his neck. Feeling a little helpless he slowly takes one of his wings and gently starts to rub her back reassuringly. “It’s ok,” he says softly again, “I’m here.” After a couple of minutes she calms enough to relax into him to attempt to go to sleep. Within another few minutes she is fast asleep with her head next to his neck and her tail curled up against her. Once she’s asleep he lowers his wing around her to cover her then he can’t help but watch her sleep.
It’s strange he thinks to himself watching her, there’s a kind of strength in her that seems to be untapped. There’s a certain strength in kindness, subtle yet very powerful. She seems so fragile and weak and yet she is the one who can talk to bears, dragons and even calm his fears. With his time here in Ponyville he heard a phrase that he can’t help but repeat to himself that behind every great stallion, there’s an equally greater mare.
Just then he hears the door open and close as softly as it can, so he lifts his head to see. He sees a wet and dripping pegasus and with another flash of lightning he realizes that it’s Rainbow Dash. As she shakes herself dry he tries to speak very quietly so as not to wake Fluttershy, “Rainbow Dash? What are you doing here in the middle of the night?”
“Where’s Fluttershy buster?”
He motions to her to come over and raises his wing to raise the blanket just enough to see Fluttershy sleeping very soundly against him still with her head against him.
She moves in front of him then sees Fluttershy sound asleep and whispers low enough not to wake her, “I’ve never seen her sleep that soundly in a thunderstorm before. Even with her animals she doesn’t sleep that well.”
“Really?” he asks back liking the implication.
Rainbow sternly looks to him, “Why you?”
It takes him a second to realize what the question meant, “I was handy and you didn’t answer my question on why you’re here.”
“I…,” she says hesitantly, “I was concerned how she was going to sleep tonight. Usually during a storm she picks someone to stay with until it’s over and if no one is available she asks the animals to stay around her.”
He looks down to Fluttershy looking so calm and precious, “I want to protect her,” he says very quietly then looking to Rainbow, “with my life.”
Rainbow looks to him with a surprised look, “You really mean that don’t you?”
“Yes,” he nods, “I do. I don’t know what this test is but promise me something. Please.”
“What?”
“Watch me carefully. Of all of her friends I know that I can trust you with this. Watch me,” he looks to Rainbow with his eyes showing fear for what might happen, “I don’t want anything to happen to her, you, or any of her friends because of this test.” A tear escapes his eye and runs down his cheek, “Please.” He hopes that she understands the unsaid without having to ask it.
For once she was speechless seeing him plea to her to do something that she didn’t know if she could even do even to her worst enemy. “I’ll watch you,” she says to him.
“Thank you Rainbow Dash,” then upon hearing that he sees that she heads to the door, “Wait, where are you going? You can’t stay out on a night like this. Get a blanket and stay here tonight, you know that is what Fluttershy would want.”
Rainbow Dash gives in and gets a blanket and lays down next to Fluttershy covers herself with the blanket and they fall asleep.
“There now,” Fluttershy says to Rainbow, “breakfast is almost done. Could you wake him please?”
Rainbow Dash grins, “My pleasure.”
He was blissfully asleep when suddenly he feels his back a little cold so he squirms to try and get the blanket with his wing as it feels around for it, then suddenly he hears, “Oh no you don’t.” Then suddenly he feels himself being flung up in the air doing a couple of barrel rolls as the blanket under him got yanked out of place. He can’t help but yelp then give out an oomph as he hits the floor. He stands up and stretches with a “why me?”
“He’s up Fluttershy.”
“Oh thank you,” she says softly with a little humming of song, “breakfast is ready Wrench Heart.
“Well, thank you,” he says walking up to the table, “How do you two feel this morning?”
“I feel wonderful,” Fluttershy speaks up first, “that was the best night sleep I have ever had.” She comes over and gives him a peck on the cheek, “Thanks to you.” Then goes back to laying breakfast on the table.
He can’t help but blush, “You’re welcome.” Then looks to Rainbow, “Do you always have to be so rough?”
“Sure I do.” Rainbow laughs then quickly finishes her breakfast, “Got to run you guys. Lots of cloud busting today because of the storm last night. See you.” In a trail of rainbow color she was gone out the door.
“Always on the run,” Fluttershy says happily, “Isn’t this morning the morning Twilight is going to pick you up for magic training?”
“Yeah,” he nods to her taking his time with breakfast, “If it’s ok that is. More than likely she probably asked the princesses for permission I’ll bet.”
Back at Twilight’s Castle Spike has just woken up and is on his way to see what twilight is up to before starting his chores. He immediately heads to the library and sure enough there she was sitting on a pile of books, “Hey Twilight.”
“Oh hey Spike, sleep well?”
As he approached her he was about to answer but belched up a letter instead.
“Do I take that as a yes then?” Twilight couldn’t help but giggle.
“Ha, ha,” Spike said, “At least she let me wake up first this time.” Spike hands her the letter.
Twilight takes the letter by magic and opens it up to read.
“What’s it say?”
“She’s giving me permission to train him,” Twilight says in surprise.
“Wow, surprising actually, I thought for sure she would say no.”
“So did I Spike, but even given what we know there’s really no way to tell what will happen. We know that it was black magic which brought him here, but that doesn’t mean the pony himself is evil. I’m inclined to agree with what Fluttershy said I don’t think that Wrench Heart, or his human part anyway, is evil. I think he’s good that has been a victim of evil intent. Going with this line of thinking and reasoning it would actually be prudent to teach him, if none other than to get an idea of what kind of magic we are in fact dealing with.”
“So I guess you’re going to teach him then?”
“Yeah,” she says a little bit surprised, “I guess I am. Ok I better go get him.”
“I guess I’ll start my chores.”
She teleports herself from the castle to the road leading to Fluttershy’s cottage then sees Rainbow in the distance coming to her, “Hi Rainbow,” Twilight says as she flies by, “Bye Rainbow.”
“See you Twilight,” Rainbow says flying by.
Twilight knocks on the door then opens the door slowly, “Fluttershy? Wrench Heart?”
“Over here Twilight,” Fluttershy says from the table as they finish their breakfast.
Twilight walks in and up to Heart, “You ready?”
He looks to her surprised, “You mean you’re really going to train me?”
“Yeah I am.”
He looks to Fluttershy with excitement and with a little worry as Fluttershy gives out a soft, “Yay. You go on Heart I have a busy day ahead.”
“You sure?” he asks a part of him just wants to stay with her.
“Yes,” Fluttershy encourages, “I’ll be just fine you go on now.”
“Well, ok then,” he says then turns to Twilight, “Ok I guess I’m ready then.”
“Good,” Twilight says, “Now hold still.”
“Huh?” he asked wondering what she has in mind and in the span of a second he was engulfed in purple magic and now standing in the room of a castle, but a different one.
“Where are we Twilight?”
“This is my castle in Ponyville,” she says as she starts to secure the room.
He notices the preparations that she is making, “I think I finally understand why I was in the room I was when I first woke up. They were dealing with an unknown.”
“Yes,” Twilight says, “We are dealing with black magic here. We have to know what we are dealing with.”
“I’m scared Twilight, not for me but for my friends. I don’t care what happens to me as long as everypony is safe.”
“I know. You’re a good pony who got pulled into a very bad situation with no memory. I can’t imagine how you feel, but I want you to know that we are on your side now, as your friends.”
A tear falling from one eye with a small smile is all he can say to her.
Twilight smiles a little, “You ready?”
He takes a deep breath to settle himself, “I think so.”
“Ok,” Twilight says starting the first lesson, “the first thing is to tap into your own energy once that is done then we can concentrate on focusing it through your horn.”
“Right.”
“First let’s concentrate on tapping into your own energy. Close your eyes, empty your mind of all worries and thoughts and focus on finding your energy deep inside you.”
He does as she suggests and tries to empty his mind and focuses. Emptying his mind of worries was a little difficult to say the least but he was able to quieten his mind. Deep down he feels some power, so he concentrates on it and wonders what kind of power it is. He opens himself up to it and feels it flooding him.
“Good, really good,” she says as she sees his horn begin to start glowing, “Now focus on the level. Keep it low and steady.
Trying what she says, he attempts to control it at a low level where it wouldn’t do any harm.
She sees his horn glow softly but the glow is dark but she still continues knowing that she has to know, “Good good, now let’s up the power.”
Listening to her with his mind focused on the energy as the power increases he begins to hear something soft, dark and ominous. “The connection,” the voice came. Barely audible at first then grows louder as he increases the power, “The connection has been made.” The dark voice laughs and flashes a symbol in his mind.
“No,” he nearly shouts seeing the symbol in his mind and stops the whole thing breaking his concentration.
“What? What happened?”
“I saw something,” he says calming down, “A symbol of sorts.” He describes it for her.
She thinks for a minute, “I don’t know it right off hand, but I think I might know who would.”
Soon they find themselves in front of Zecora’s place in the Everfree Forest and they knock first then steps in once Zecora says so.
“Hello Twilight, why look so dowa, what brings you to me at this houra?”
“Well Zecora,” Twilight starts as she sits beside her table, “This is Wrench Heart.” Twilight tells her the whole tale, “I was teaching him about how to tap into your own energy for the start at magic learning. Then when he increased the power level he heard and saw something.”
He nods, “The voice wars dark saying that the connection has been completed and I saw this symbol.” Drawing it for her on the soft ground before her, “Do you happen to know of it?”
Zecora looks at it intently then her eyes widen in surprise and horror, “No, it cannot be so, she was supposed to be destroyed long ago.”
“I guess you know of it then,” he mutters sullenly, “Well at least we’ll get some answers.”
“From my land far from here, it was so long ago so lend me your ear. A dark tale I will tell, so sit right there and listen well. Her name was Dark Aurora and of my land she did enslave, a dark zebra caused so much horra, it took all of us for our land to save. A trap we did set when the time was right and captured her there at last sunlight. Into an orb she did went until all of our energy we did spent. Now she is here as you do say, let us fight her so she will not stay, I vow to fight by your side, so let us lower our pride. Work together let us cause her unrest, so let this last fight be her last breath.” Her anger toward Dark Aurora becomes evident upon her last few rhymes as they see a hatred toward this dark zebra like they have never seen before. They also see the dying devotion and love that she has toward her friends here in Equestria.
Zecora then looks to Heart, “Only a matter of time for she is gaining powa, to overcome you in the last houra.”
He sighs sullenly, “How come I knew you were going to say that?”
“How long will it be ‘till she takes him over?”
“Hard to tell so let us pray that only he can say,” Zecora says looking at him.
He nods looking between the girls, “Not long I’m afraid, I can already feel her power rising.”
“Then give Fluttershy this for she will know when to use it.” Zecora takes out what looks to be an amulet of sorts hanging from a type of chain. The amulet itself is like crystal of pure white hanging from a golden chain.
Twilight takes the amulet and puts it in her small pouch until she can give it to Fluttershy. She doesn’t know why Zecora wants to give it to Fluttershy, but she trusts Zecora.
“Thank you Zecora,” Twilight says as they exit Zecora’s and head for the town out of the forest. Twilight gets ready for the teleportation then hears Heart speak up.
“Twilight, let’s walk awhile.”
“Ok, I’m listening,” Twilight says knowing the real reason why he wants to walk.
He smiles, “You know me already. Its…just…I…” he takes a breath, “I don’t want anyone to suffer because of me and yet I know that me being taken over is inevitable. Maybe it’s for the best that…,” his voice trails off at the end.
“NO,” Twilight says immediate looking him sternly in the eyes, “We won’t let you do that.”
“Why not?” he retorts, “It’s better all the way around because it can be killed easily before she has a chance to take me over and causing any damage.”
“Didn’t you hear Zecora? Even through all of her hatred for this Aurora that option didn’t even enter into her mind, now why do you think that is?”
He just looks to her with emotions running through him like an out of control river heading toward a waterfall.
“Because,” Twilight continues, “it’s just not an option.”
“Well, it should be.”
“Are you really that selfish?”
He looks to her in surprise, “Selfish how is that being selfish? I want to save my friends from something evil and who knows maybe all of Equestria itself and I’m being selfish?”
“Yes, you are.”
“How?”
“Because you would rather run away from this fight, end it before it starts because you fear you won’t have the strength to defeat it. You’re selfish by thinking that you and only you can defeat this and you think that you can’t. You’re wrong about that too, because we are your friends and friends will never let another friend do that. Together we can defeat this and live to tell about it.”
He stands there not knowing what to say just looking to her defeated.
Twilight comes up to him and touches him on his shoulder with one hoof, “Now come on and we will go see Fluttershy ok?”
“You will do no such thing do you hear me Wrench Heart?” Fluttershy looks to Heart’s eyes intently after hearing what went on at and after the meeting with Zecora.
“At least you and your friends would be safe.”
“Twilight was right, you are being selfish, how do you think I would feel being without you? I don’t want you to do that because I want us to fight it together and be together after all this is over.” She puts a hoof to his head just behind his mouth, “Courage is doing what’s right in the face of fear not running from it. That’s what I’ve learned after the many fears I’ve overcome with them as my friends and you can just add this one to the list. So, here’s what we’re going to do, we are going to face this together and that’s final. Understand mister?”
Seeing those eyes look at him that way he can’t help but take a gulp and nods to her defeated, “Yes, ma’am.”
“Good,” Shouted a high pitched voice out of nowhere surprising everyone in the process, “because otherwise you wouldn’t be able to come to my Apple Cider Welcome to Equestria party.”
After getting her heart back into her chest Twilight just laughs, “Leave it to Pinkie Pie to figure out how to combine apple cider season with a welcoming party.”
“Yeah,” Pinkie continues, “after all it’s a lot of work sending out invitations especially if you want the whole town to be there, which I do, so I thought of the cider and everyone naturally goes there, so that takes care of the ponies. I know you are all going to be there so now I can plan the party and I thought about drinks, but there’s going to be cider there already, but they have to buy that so I have to bring some drinks that goes with cider that they won’t have to buy, which brings me to my question what do you want to go with the cider at the party?”
“Fruit Punch?” he spoke up when it came to mind. Not knowing why it just came to him.
Pinkie Pie let out a very happy gasp and in a flash she was hugging him tightly in her embrace, “Thank you thank you thank you. That is just perfect.” She let’s go of him, “Got to run see you all there,” and bounces off, “tra lala la la.”
Taking a big gasp of air from the hug then a slight cough he looks to both of the girls, “Looks like it’s a cider party after all.”
“You might want to stop by Rarity’s first to see if she has anything in mind for you.”
He looks to Twilight, “What do you mean?”
“Something for you to wear to the party.” Twilight smiles, “Why don’t we all go over?”
“Oh,” Fluttershy says quietly, “good idea.”
“Oh Fluttershy, here,” Twilight gives her the amulet, “Zecora wanted you to have this.”
Fluttershy takes it and looks at the amulet as it shines under her touch, “Oooh pretty, what is it Twilight?”
“Not all that sure, just that she wanted you to have it and said that you would know what to do with it when the time came.”
“What an honor,” she says putting the amulet on as it glows softly around her neck seemingly with a gentle power, “I’ll keep it safe then.”
They leave Fluttershy’s cottage and head for Rarity’s and on the way there he can’t but let his mind wander. In just a couple of weeks I’ve gone from a nopony to having these friends by my side. He takes a look around Ponyville as they approach the Carousel Boutique, and admits to himself, that what he had in mind was stupid. He really didn’t want to leave this place and if there is a way to fight this thing, win, and live to tell the tale. Well then, he is all for it. Ponyville is a very pretty and serene place to call home and the other ponies that live here just make this place a really great place to live. Remembering what they have said to him about what this town has gone through he can just imagine the close ties that everyone has here to one another. He smiles to himself thinking that he is really lucky to have even a small part of something this good, this welcoming and this caring.
Soon he stands in front of the boutique and he has to admit its elegance and how he can see why Rarity and her character would fit so well in a building such as this. In a word that fits so well is elegance.
Twilight knocks then opens the door stepping inside with Fluttershy with Wrench Heart following. Looking around, the inside is just as grand as the outside. The front room is basically a show floor to exhibit her line of clothing, which one would call more art than clothing, but shows so well in the front showroom floor.
“Be with you in a minute,” comes this singsong voice from the back, and after a minute or two Rarity comes out from the back. “Twilight, Fluttershy, and Wrench Heart dear have you come to get fitted?” she singsongs her way up to him.
He looks between Fluttershy and Twilight and they just smile and nod, “I…guess I am. You don’t have to do this, not that I don’t appreciate it but…”
“Oh posh and nonsense,” she says ushering him to the back and Fluttershy and Twilight giggle and follow behind him.
He gets ushers into a back room that is obviously her work room for fitting, designing, and making the clothing for her clients. “Stand here please,” he hears her say ushering him to stand on one side of the room next to what can only be seen as the design area. The area has all the things in it one would think for designing, a board to sketching, pony mannequins, yards of materials of all sorts with yarn of various colors and thickness, and a chest of drawers to hold it all. Although right now it looks more like Rainbow Dash with a small whirlwind came through it.
Standing where he is told to he tries to stand as still as possible as she takes the measurements. Listening to her humming and mumbling he starts to feel really at home and can see that Rarity really encompasses her element of generosity. Not even asking for any kind of payment for what she is doing. He starts to feel kind of the stallion on the spotlight as she takes the measurements and begins to work along his back. Reaching his flanks and measuring width she tries to picture how the tail of the coat will look like.
Twilight and Fluttershy can’t help but giggle softly seeing the sight in front of them with Rarity behind him and his eyes wide in front with a growing blush on his face. They whisper ever so quietly between them that no matter what world they come from males are all the same.
“Ok all done, you can relax now Wrench Heart,” she says not knowing she has a small blush herself.
He finally relaxes and lets out a very quiet and slow breath he was holding.
“Satisfied with the measurements Rarity?” Twilight spoke up half in jest and half serious seeing Rarity’s slight blush.
“Quite yes, why do you ask Twilight?”
Twilight can’t help it but look at Rarity with a blush that is almost the same shade as the glasses on her face and points to the mirror on the chest of drawers.
Out of just sheer curiosity Rarity takes a look in the mirror and sees herself blushing then shakes her head attempting to calm her reaction, “I’ve done hundreds of stallions from all over Equestria dears and he’s no different.”
Twilight and Fluttershy giggles thinking oh sure he isn’t to themselves then hearing a small high pitched filly’s voice pitch in, “Who’s no different Rarity?”
Oh thank the heavens Heart thinks to himself welcoming the interruption in the conversation which he clearly didn’t like where it was going. He looks at this little filly that is much like Rarity only smaller, with a different color and style of mane and tail. More pink and purple and less curly than Rarity’s. “Well, hi there little one. What’s your name?” Gladly taking the chance to steer this conversation somewhere else.
“Wow,” the little filly says quickly trotting up to him, “are you for real? A real male alicorn? My name is Sweetie Belle.”
He looks himself over and laughs lightly, “I wonder about that myself, but apparently yeah, I’m real. I’m Wrench Heart.”
“Wrench Heart,” the little filly repeats, “Cool name. Wait, what’s your cutie mark? Huh?” She says looking at it. “What’s that thing in the middle?”
“A wrench.”
“So you got your name from your cutie mark or did the cutie mark so happen to match your name?"
“To make a long story short Sweetie Belle, it’s the first one. You see I just sort of appeared one day and here I am without any memory at all.”
“You mean you don’t know who you are?”
He shakes his head to her question, “No, I’m afraid I don’t and it’s kind of frightening now knowing who you are. So when we noticed my cutie mark I took the name it suggests.”
“I’m still looking for mine and I’ve joined with two of my friends in the hunt for ours, we call ourselves the Cutie Mark Crusaders.”
“Really?” he lays down in front of her to see more eye to eye plus to take a quick look around as Rarity is doing her thing and Twilight and Fluttershy talking and giggling among themselves, “Sounds interesting. What do you do to try and find them?”
Sweetie Belle rolls her eyes, “Almost anything we get out hooves on. You name it and we have done it. Anywhere from acting to zip lining. Some of it not exactly fun.”
“I don’t get it then,” he says actually interested, “why would you try things that you don’t like? It doesn’t seem like one would have a cutie mark in something that they didn’t like. It would make more sense to look for it in things that you did like.”
“Better listen to this one Sweetie Belle,” Rarity pipes up, “in only a couple of weeks of being here he knows more than most in the school.”
Suddenly his head reels with a headache and pain. Luckily he was already on the floor as he shuts his eyes tightly and twisting his head groaning as the pain hits him hard and fast. “Oh how touching,” the female voice says in his head, “there’s so much syrup here to choke a zebra.” He can feel the power increasing as his horn starts to glow with a dark aura, “Aurora,” he says aloud through the pain. “Oh, looks like someone here has done their homework.”
They all see him tilt his head clearly in pain and Twilight sees the horn glow clearly against his will, “Sweetie Belle over here now,” she calls out and glad to see that she obeyed then she and Fluttershy go to him, “Remember your lessons.” Twilight tries to tell him as Fluttershy speaks up, “We’re here Wrench Heart you can do it.”
He can’t see them but he can feel they are right next to him so he tries to concentrate and focus. “Interesting,” Aura speaks in his mind, “you think you can control the likes of me?” The energy level starts to lower and the aura around his horn starts to dissipate, “My my, what a will you have, you are going to be fun and a male body at that.”“Not…today,” he says quietly as he starts to get it under control, “you don’t.” The energy starts to go away and the only thing he hears is the female voice laughing and laughing until all is quiet again.
Turning his head he looks up to Twilight and Fluttershy, “That took a lot out of me,” he says and looks like he just ran one hundred miles, “I’m tired.”
Fluttershy puts a gentle hoof to his head, “Just stay there until you are ready.”
“You ok?” Twilight asks.
“This time,” he says softly trying to stand but finding himself a little unsteady he lays down again.
“Oh darling,” Rarity comes up to him, “don’t try and stand yet.” She looks around the room and notices her fainting couch, “I know,” she says lifting him carefully off the floor and to her couch setting him down gently, “a soft couch for you until you get your strength back.”
“Thank you Rarity.” He then notices that Twilight and Fluttershy starts to leave, “Fluttershy?”
Fluttershy turns walking up to him, “Now you will be just fine here with Rarity.”
“I know, but could you stay anyway?”
Fluttershy looks to Rarity and she nods then Fluttershy looks to him again and smiles, “Sure.”
“I’m a little tired,” he says softly looking to her then gets interrupted by her.
She shushes him softly and kisses his head, “Go on and take a nap then.”
He let’s go and surrenders to the realm of dreams.
Rarity comes up to them and speaks softly as to not wake him, “Who is this Aurora?”
They both watch him sleep and wave goodbye to Twilight as she leaves for the castle and Fluttershy fills Rarity in on everything up to date, “Oh the poor darling. I simply can’t imagine what he’s going through. You both can stay as long as you like.”
“Thank you Rarity.”
“You’re welcome darling, besides if I need to take more measurements I won’t have to go far.” Rarity takes a quick giggle and Fluttershy just smiles shaking her head.
Upon opening his eyes he first noticed that he was still in the room and all was dark except for the moonlight from the windows around the room. He took a look around and didn’t see Rarity or Fluttershy. Standing up he did see that the room was basically how he saw it last with things scattered across the room, “Fluttershy? Rarity?” Deciding to take a look around and heads to the door, but stops short when it opens. What he saw wasn’t Fluttershy or Rarity and what he saw definitely wasn’t Sweetie Belle. What he saw both enraged him and terrified him. The door shuts softly with a light click and what stand before him has a black and white coat of a zebra. She stands a little taller than Zecora as she approaches him with an evil seductive smile.
“Well, looking good my slave,” says the all familiar female voice in his mind this time with a dark seduction that rings almost like bells.
“I will NEVER be your slave, you evil witch from...”
“Tut tut tut, such language,” Aurora approaches him then starts to circle him, “this will never do.” As she circles she uses her tail to run it down his back then circling around again, “You can’t control what is to come,” she says going up his back this time and soon reaching his head. She then uses the tip of her tail trail his lips seductively.
He tries to bite her tail with a growl, but she pulls it away in time.
“Now now my sweet,” she circles the other side and runs her tail down his back again, “Soon I will control you and we will be one forever.”
“Never,” he yells, “I will die before that happens.”
She laughs evilly as she circles around again with her tail running up his back once more, “You honestly think that either I or your little friends will allow that to happen?”
He knew the answer to that and out of the corner of his eye he notices a dark area filled with stars in the top corner of the room and senses that someone is watching but doesn’t let on that he notices. Her tail wraps around his throat in possession, “Soon I’m going to possess you my sweet. I didn’t expect such a catch though, what luck I have.”
His breath grows deep as his mind thinks of what he can do, anything, anything that he can do. Fight is the only thing that comes to mind, “I will fight you until I can look in the mirror and find you gone.”
She squeezes his throat with her tail, “I will always be the one you see when you look in the mirror.”
Struggling he tries to wrestle away, “You can’t help but to lose control being the evil thing you are and when you do I’ll kill you.”
She tightens her tail almost to the point where he can’t breathe then slamming him to the floor of the room, “You can’t control me I live deep inside you and you can’t keep me from devouring your soul.”
He falls to the floor on his side and tries to get his feet under him, “You’re,” he coughs, “in my dream. How?” Finally getting his forelegs under him he manages to slowly rise.
For a second she seems surprised that he is rising even as she struggles to keep him down, “You figured it out, I am able to enter into the dreams to those I possess and pretty soon you will be mine.”
“We will find a way to defeat you,” he finally stands fully on all fours again even though he has trouble breathing.
She laughs, “The face you see will be us forever and we will do terrible things together. I will never let you go and you can’t get away from me my sweet.” She stops choking him, but keeping her tail wrapped around his throat, she then kisses his flank slowly and possessively.
He shutters at her evil kiss, “I don’t need you to survive, but you need me.”
“Don’t you get it?” she says with a voice of evil seduction that seems to ring and puts her head on his back and turning her head to face him, “There’s no way to separate us. You are mine.” She laughs long and loud as it fills the room. “I know who to start with first when I finally get control, which will be soon my sweet.” She kisses his flank again.
His shutter in disgust turns to anger and soon to rage and uses all his might and pulls using her now tightening grip on his neck and using his wings to help. He knows that her tail would will be tight enough so as to make her lose her footing when being dragged.
She gets the surprise of her life when she falls to the floor finding herself actually being dragged by this human/alicorn. Then to her amazement finds herself flying through the air hitting the far wall of the boutique with a loud crash.
It worked, he used all his strength to fling her off using that grip of hers but with a cost when her tail lets him loose it also whipped him around then back onto the floor again. Coughing finally able to catch his breath he stands ready for a full on fight, “Then I will fight you always and when you look into the mirror you will always see my HATE FOR YOU.”
She stands and laughs evilly, “I’m glad that fate handed you to me my sweet for my victory over you will be glorious indeed and I will use your strength to conquer all I see.” She laughs and fades away.
He watches as she fades away and finally leaves him feeling so dirty and violated, “We will see Aurora, we’ll see.” Suddenly feeling that he isn’t alone again he whips around expecting Aurora.
Princess Luna speaks gently, “Relax Wrench Heart, It is I Princess Luna. I am able to enter dreams as well and this one disturbed me.”
He slowly relaxes breathing deeply still catching his breath, “How do you think I feel with that witch all over me?”
“I need information to give to my sister Princess Celestia.”
“Dark Aurora is her name she is from Zecora’s land. They defeated her by placing her into the orb and I saw you earlier.”
She just stands there and listens.
“WHY?” he yells to her in frustration, “Why didn’t you interfere and help me?” He looks to her with his face showing anger at her inaction, “Was it to see whose side I was on?”
“Yes and now I know and you have our support.”
He can’t help but laugh, “Well, at least you’re honest.”
“Fluttershy is trying to wake you. I will go now.” she disappears.
Fluttershy tries desperately to try and wake him then hears the door open and sees Rarity come in, “Rarity help, I can’t wake him up.”
Rarity comes over seeing him squirm in sleep obviously in some horrifying nightmare.
His eyes flash open and coughs taking deep breaths as if he just came up from the short fight.
“Wrench Heart,” Fluttershy says putting a hoof to his head.
“Darling,” Rarity says coming up to him.
He looks to them, “Ladies, I’m finally awake?”
“Yes you are darling, what happened?” Rarity speaks first.
“It was Aurora,” he says “She entered my dream.”
“How is that possible? I thought only Princess Luna could do that.” Fluttershy inquires.
“She is able to do so only to those she possesses,” he says softly both with anger and sadness in his voice.
Fluttershy looks to him shocked and scared while Rarity looks to him with worry and an “Oh Darling” escaping her lips.
“Soon I won’t be able to control her. I don’t know what to do.”
“What about the party?” Fluttershy asks.
“Well,” he says with sorrow as his heart seems to sink into his stomach, “it’s obvious that I can’t go, I can’t risk losing control at her party, not with everypony there.”
“Oh dear,” Rarity says quietly, “Pinkie Pie will be heartbroken.”
Later that morning all three of them Fluttershy, Rarity and Wrench Heart went to see Pinkie Pie. When they arrived at Sugarcube Corner they noticed that she was just walking in.
Pinkie Pie just opened the door when she turned around seeing her friends and when Wrench Heart saw her happy face to see them a part of him just couldn’t bear to see her sadden face when he told her the news. For the safety of the whole village he had to tell her.
“Pinkie Pie?” he asks sullenly walking up to her as she stands on the steps looking to him.
“Wrench Heart,” she says starting to bounce in place, “You’ll love the fruit punch I made for the party, and it’s just delish.” She giggles.
“Can we come inside? We have some bad news.”
“Bad news?” she stops bouncing immediately then turns around entering into the building, “Sure, Ok.”
They follow her inside and Rarity shuts the door so they can’t be disturbed.
“What is it?” Pinkie asks looking a little confused.
He sighs and sense there’s no easy way to say it he just says it, “I don’t think it would be a good idea for me to attend your party Pinkie.” Just as expected her mane deflated into looking like something that just got done taking a bath.
“Why?” she asks with her eyes watering up.
Frustrated with the whole thing it breaks his heart to see her like that after what he said. To him it makes him feel like he hurt her, “It’s for the safety of the town Pinkie.”
“What do you mean? Don’t you like parties?” Pinkie looks to him with those watery filled filly looking eyes.
Darn it all to…he thinks to himself then says, “Of course I do Pinkie, yes I want to come, and if anyone needs a laugh then I can tell you I’m the one who needs it most, but I...,” he takes second, “Aurora entered into my dream last night and she’s close to taking over. The whole town is going to be there.” He starts to pace around feeling like he just needs to walk to shake the frustration out, “If she gets control while the whole town is there…” he trails off not needing to finish.
“OOoohh,” she says catching on, “But you said that you do want to come right?”
“Well, of course I do, but…” he gets cut off by Pinkie Pie
“Then I’ll see you there,” she says as her mane instantly puffs back up again.
“And if she gets control over me during the party?” he had to ask the question.
“Then we’ll use the Elements of Harmony silly,” she bounces off further into the building.
To her it was just that simple, “I’ll go on one condition Pinkie,” he says to her to stop her.
She stops and looks to him.
“I’ll go, but the second I sense that I’m about to lose control I leave,” he says to them all not just Pinkie, “I don’t want to put the whole town in danger ok?”
“Ok,” she starts bouncing again then disappears deeper into the building.
“Well darling,” Rarity speaks up softly, “I guess you’re going.”
Turning he looks to the two of them, “If anypony needs a laugh it’s me, but as soon as any sign of trouble appears I’m leaving.” He reiterates, “I just can’t risk the whole town.”
“Oh I understand,” Fluttershy says softly, “I wouldn’t want to risk the town either.”
He and the rest of the six decided to show up way early to the cider, in fact early enough that they all wanted to help setup. Of course they worked their hardest helping to get all the barrels ready and stacked for the day’s cider. Rainbow and Wrench Heart helping to stack while Fluttershy and Rarity helping Applejack to setup the stand. They didn’t get free cider as a way to cool off during the work like they all hoped, but they were able to be the very first ones in line for it though. For Rainbow Dash that was all she was after for at last this year she didn’t have to worry about Pinkie Pie drinking it all even though she was still in front of her for another year.
Admittedly he had to be honest that the hard work had done him good and now waiting in line for the cider to start running, though it wouldn’t be only a couple of minutes, then looking at the barn which was filled with the welcome to Ponyville party he loved it all. Enjoyed the hard work and really looking forward to relaxing with his friends. That doesn’t mean he let his guard down of course. Every minute he was attentive to himself and to get even the smallest feeling that she was going to overpower him. He was glad at least right now she wasn’t and the cider started flowing and the whole line let out a wild cheer. Although no one thought that anyone cheered louder than Rainbow Dash. Rainbow saved up the whole year and got three this year at once.
It was his turn and he put out his money although it really wasn’t his. Fluttershy had enough saved up for two so she gave him the money for his own. He couldn’t thank her enough as he got his cup full and joined Fluttershy nearby, “Thank you again Fluttershy,” he had to said to her, “this cider really is great, I love it.”
“It’s done every year and everyone around Ponyville and sometimes even from Canterlot comes for the cider,” Fluttershy explains to him.
Suddenly seeming out of nowhere Pinkie Pie shows up behind them almost making them spill what’s left of their cider, “Wrench Heart,” Pinkie says on standing on their left side, “Fluttershy,” she says now standing on their right side, “You need to come with me now.” She finishes behind them and between them then heads off for the barn where the party is like a spy slipping between the apple trees.
Fluttershy and Heart look to each other puzzled but just smiles thinking its Pinkie Pie and puts their cups down at their appropriate place after finishing them then heads to the barn. On the way there Heart notices that nopony really has given him a second thought yet, more than likely they are too engrossed in their cider to notice.
As soon as the two of them enter the barn Pinkie Pie pulls them aside, “Wrenchy, I need you behind there until the party starts.”
“Why?” Heart says a little perplexed.
“Well,” Pinkie starts by taking a deep breath, “I noticed that you really haven’t been seen by almost all of Ponyville and being an alicorn and a male alicorn it’s going to be a surprise to them. They will have a lot of questions of who, what, when, why, how, is he going to do this, or that, or maybe this and I thought,” she stops then taking that surprised big breath again, “I can bring him out at the beginning of the part to make his big introduction and maybe give a speech, will you give a speech, will you, will you, will you?” She finally finishes grinning and bouncing up and down.
“I…” he starts, “well…,” trying to figure out what to say he just stammers but hears a giggle from Fluttershy.
“Just give in,” she says with a smile, “it’s easier that way.”
He just sighs in defeat, “Alright.”
Pinkie Pie jumps in joy then ushers him to the back of the barn where a small curtain type screen is for him to walk through on his big entrance as Pinkie Pie wants it.
Fluttershy joins him back there and he smiles, “Thanks for staying with me Fluttershy.”
“You’re welcome Wrench Heart.”
“Oh just call me Wrenchy,” he smiles and laughs with her at the nickname Pinkie just gave him.
“Did I miss something?”
“Oh hi there Twilight.” Wrench Heart says looking to her, “Not really except the name Pinkie just gave me, ‘Wrenchy’”
She had to laugh, “In that case get worried because she really likes you.”
“Seriously though Twilight,” he says to her as the laughing ends glad to see Twilight now has a serious look on her face, “If what is going to happen tonight happen I’m going to need your help being a Princess of Friendship yourself. I think that Pinkie is right though in that I think there will be a lot of questions about me. I’ll need you there to help with the crowd but to put my…,” he hesitates not knowing how to put it.
“Our,” Twilight says softly with a smile.
He sighs with a look of deep thankfulness on his face, “Our problem with Aurora out in the open like that.”
Twilight can see the worry on his face, “We’ll take it slowly ok?”
They watch behind the curtain as the crowd comes in and starts to get a little restless considering they were told not to touch anything just yet on orders from Pinkie Pie.
Applejack comes up to them with Rainbow beside her and Applejack speak up, “What’s the holdup y’all? This crowd is getting more restless than a stampede.”
He shrugs, “Its Pinkie’s gig, so she’s the one in charge.”
About a couple of minutes later Pinkie pops up on stage standing on her hind legs with forelegs stretched out, “Hey Ponyville are you ready to par-tay?”
“Yeah,” comes the response from the crowd with cheers and hoof stomps
“Alright but before that there is a special newcomer to Ponyville which Princess Twilight wants to introduce to you.” Pinkie dashes to the curtain sticking her head in to bring Twilight out.
Twilight steps out to cheers and hoof stomps on the ground which she quickly quietens by spreading her wings, “He’s new here to not only Ponyville but to Equestria and he came here with no memory.” She gestures to him to come out with one hoof as she steps back closer to the curtain.
He takes a deep breath taking a quick look to Fluttershy as she smiles and nods to him giving him courage. The curtains part as he steps in front of them letting the light shine on him and a second later he hears a familiar high pitched filly’s voice, “I told you I spoke to a male alicorn.” It was right then that the crowd started to murmur among themselves, so he felt that he had no choice and spread his wings out for them to see. A collective gasp hit the crowd and then started all the questions. Rapidly they came one after another after another: Are you a prince? Where will you rule? Will you rule by Princess Twilight? Will you two get married?
“Please,” he shouted above the clamor of questions and soon it fell silent, “Let me speak. I know you all have questions.” Speaking normally now his baritone voice carries throughout the barn, “I have a lot of questions, where only a small few have been answered.” He takes a look around at the crowd and he has no clue on how to speak to them or where to even begin. His eyes rests on Applejack and he thinks to himself, the Element of Truth, it was then that she just nodded and smiled. “I will tell you the truth,” he said looking around the crowd once more, “My first memory was waking up in a locked room at Canterlot Castle having no memory of who I was, where I was, or even what I was. I didn’t have a name so I took the name Wrench Heart only because that is what my cutie mark is. No, I didn’t even know I was an alicorn and when I found out I didn’t know how to take it. I was scared, frightened and obviously very confused and it was Fluttershy which found me first through her bunny Angel. Then she introduced me to her friends and they decided to help me investigate all these questions.”
He takes another breath not really knowing how they will take it but knows that he has to do it, “I was brought here through a portal from another world by dark magic.” They began to murmur some but only a little and let him continue, “We think that it’s this magic that has blocked my memory.” He stops for a second then speaks a little softer, “It’s also this magic that is slowly taking control over me. According to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna the orb which brought me here spoke of some test and obviously I’m it.”
The crowd began to speak again and this time Twilight had to calm them down for him to speak again, “In my short time of being here,” he can’t help but speak from the heart as he looks over the crowd, “I’ve met Fluttershy, Princess Twilight and all their friends and family. I’ve seen what this world and what this town has to offer. I’m so lucky to have lived even a small part of it and I have fallen in love with Ponyville and the friends I’ve made here. I don’t want this magic to have control over me or any part of that magic. All I want is to live here with my friends, all I want is to live here in peace, and all I want is to live here with all of you as my friends. Fact is fact that I must face, that this magic is taking control over me and we don’t know how to stop it. I don’t want to be here when it does because I don’t want to hurt my friends or any of you over what it will do through me. In my heart I won’t be able to feel anything other than guilt if that happens.”
He stops not knowing what else to say and no one really speaks for a couple of minutes then he sees Sweetie Belle step forward then Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. It was Sweetie Bell that spoke first and oddly enough the whole barn was so quiet you could hear a pin drop on a hay bale, “There’s no reason to feel guilty if it’s not you who’s doing it. It will be that evil thing and not you, so the Cutie Mark Crusaders will stand by your side. We will help you fight it and stop it.”
So moved by her words he laid down in front of the three little filly’s and nuzzling them each as his heart feels such humility from their courage, “No stronger of words have been spoken by so small of a package.” He whispers to them as his emotions couldn’t form a stronger voice, “Thank you.”
The Cutie Mark Crusaders turned around to face the crowd and this time it was Apple Bloom which spoke, “Who is with us?” In turn Scootaloo spoke, “Who else will help him?”
Naturally Twilight stepped up beside Heart, then Fluttershy coming from the side to stand beside him also, then came Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. Sometimes a minute seems to go by so slowly and then from the crowd the Mayor stepped forward then looks down to the Crusaders with a smile of pride then turns around to face the crowd, “I do,” she says, then slowly one by one it seems the whole town just steps forward.
He stands with a humble heart as he looks around, “Thank you,” his voice showing his obvious emotions that is running through his heart of joy, gladness, thankfulness and pride, “Thank you all.”
Oh how touching my sweet, comes Aurora speaking into his mind once more. He closes his eyes and snorts with anger as it shows on his face when he feels that tail run down his back once more, but this time she’s not there.
“Uh Rarity? Fluttershy?” Sweetie Bell calls a little concerned.
Fluttershy rushes in front of him then comes Twilight and Rarity, “What is it?” Fluttershy asks him.
It’s as if she is there with him but obviously not but only in his mind but it makes no difference, because he can feel her while awake now. That same feeling she gave him before at her ministrations she gives him now with that same kiss on his flank this time taking her time with him enjoying this particular type of torture.
His anger, disgust with his feeling so violated comes through his soft voice as he speaks to Fluttershy quietly, “Aurora.”
Fluttershy gasps in horror and fright, “Oh dear.”
He tries using his lesson of control to get her to go away as he concentrates using all the strength he can summon. She laughs in his mind as she nuzzles his neck then taking her time with kissing it slowly and possessively. Instinctively he turns his head but of course it doesn’t help as her dark evil seductive voice rings through his mind once more, “So close my sweet.” Everywhere that his mind thinks she touches his skin instinctively shutters like trying to shoo away a fly. He opens his eyes a little looking to Fluttershy not really knowing what she can even do at this point, but his voice comes out soft tinged with anger toward Aurora but also with worry for her and everyone, “Run. Please. I’m barely…hanging on.” His breath comes out deep as he uses all his strength to try and get rid of her.
Some in the crowd leaves the barn then some more after, but a lot actually stays standing firm side by side and it was Fluttershy that speaks up, “No.”
This time when he tries to convince her and the others to leave it wasn’t his voice but Aurora’s that comes through his mouth, “Oh, how touching.” Hearing her dark seductive voice coming from him was to say the least frightening and not to mention weird.
Fluttershy and Twilight look between themselves in horror and surprise.
“What in tarnation?” Applejack says hearing the female voice coming from Heart’s mouth. The crowd seems to back up as the voice comes out except for the mayor and a few by her side, the Crusaders and Fluttershy’s friends.
“What’s happening Twilight?” Fluttershy asks
“I think Aurora is speaking through him, which means she can control is body now.”
“Oh, my,” Fluttershy responds to Twilight’s answer.
He seems to wrestle control over her as his own voice comes out this time he backs up away from them trying to give them distance, “Go away…Aurora.”
She wrestled control away from him and uses his body to mimic what she was doing to him in his dream. His body now being used by her to walk like a mare around a stallion as she mimics kissing his neck, “Oh you can’t get away,” she mimics rubbing up against him flank against flank then as if kissing his neck again, “my sweet, sweet slave.” The last of her words comes out of his mouth slowly as if savoring each word while each one possessive.
He yells loudly getting control again and jumps passed the curtain as if trying to hide from everyone, his face showing rage, hate and the last strength he can muster to trying to do anything to make her stop.
The Mayor in horror of what she sees takes charge of the crowd, “Well, I think it’s time to get the little ones away from here.” The crowd dissipates while taking the young ones with them and leaving Fluttershy, Rarity, Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Applejack as they go behind the curtain to see if they can do anything.
They see him yell as himself then bucks a whole right through the wall of the barn, his eyes closed hard in a type of pain that sinks deep within oneself. His head is tilted to one side, his breath coming out in deep long snorts like a wild stallion determined not to be tamed.
They all jump when he bucks through the wall.
“That would bring even my best tree down in one buck,” Applejack says in astonishment.
“NO,” he jumps to one side wrestling control again, then she wrestles it back with a seductive, “Yes, come here my sweet.” They see her take control again and jumps in the direction of the last one as if she is chasing him. Each one fighting for control as the two wills fight over the same body. One trying to get away any way he can while the other wanting to have him for her own. The two looks like they are playing a game through one body as he yells again continuing to jump away. His breath coming out in wild snorts when he’s in control compared with the seductive attempts of the other jumping after him.
“Is there anything that we can do Twilight?” Fluttershy asks feeling helpless to do anything but feeling for him and the evil that he’s under.
Twilight just shakes her head, “I have no idea.”
“Oh the evil, the torture,” Rarity pipes up in a hatred that is rarely seen on this lady’s face, “there is not a word vile enough to describe her.”
“Let’s kick that evil witches’ rump,” Rainbow says with a hatred glee just looking for a fight.
“But won’t you only be hurting him?” Pinkie Pie says to the others.
“She’s right,” Twilight says, “She’s in control of him so any harm would only harm him and not sure but it might even help her because it would weaken him more.”
Fluttershy looks on and through her fear she slowly steps forward toward him.
“Fluttershy,” Rarity speaks in warning, “Darling what are you doing?”
She takes control over his body again and sees Fluttershy slowly making her way over and smiles to her. The eyes which look to Fluttershy now are clearly not of his. Her dark seductive voice comes out and each word slowly making emphasis over her possession of him. She uses his body as if her own kissing the air slowly as if kissing his neck, “Isn’t he a catch?” Aurora looks to Fluttershy with ecstasy as if eyeing a potential rival, “Such strength,” she says seductively and passionately. Kissing again this time as if kissing on one side of his neck then the other then laying her eyes through him on Fluttershy again as Fluttershy nears Heart.
“Let him go,” they hear Fluttershy say in a low soft voice that feels like it would put the stare to shame. It comes out low and soft but with a strength they have yet to have seen in her up until now.
“Why would I do that dear?” Aurora bats his eyelashes at her while raising one foreleg clearly female like in manner and expression, “I like him,” she says slowly. She spreads his wings lowers the foreleg now spreading the legs out as if stretching in the morning. She mimics going under his head so that if real his head would rest on her back then looking to her again, “I think I’ll keep him.”
Now standing in front of Heart with Aurora still in clear control and with Zecora’s amulet still around her neck she speaks softly but with a stern firm voice, “Wrench Heart?” She speaks up waiting a beat then says, “Hold her.”
Aurora laughs long and loud, “Oh my dear, you think tha…” and to her surprise the whole body freezes, voice and all, just stops. She feels him rush to the surface again regaining a little control. The face contorts in effort and his voice comes forward softly filled with exhaustion, “Flutter…shy.”
Now, she thinks and raising up to hug him putting her head against his neck with her forelegs wrapped around him. The amulet around her neck glows brightly giving off a strange power as an aura of bright light surrounds them. She can feel something happening to both of them. Her strength is draining into the amulet and she starts to feel tired but holds on to him.
He can feel Aurora slowly go away as the power envelopes him and he uses it to push her down while regaining control over his body. Then soon with the last bit of his effort he pushes her as far down within him as he can then passes out.
They watch as the light surrounds them where it’s almost hard to see then a second later the light fades. They see Fluttershy slowly letting go and taking a step back laying down as if going to sleep. Wrenchy stands for a second more as the light fades to nothing then he falls to the floor as if dead with a hard thud against the dirt floor of the barn.
They all just stare in awe at the sight they just saw then as if snapping out of a trance they rush up to them.
“Is she alright?” Pinkie Pie asks about Fluttershy.
Twilight nods, “Yes, I think she’s just asleep.”
Rainbow lands beside Wrenchy and checks him, “Well, he’s still alive, but the question is who’s in charge?”
“Given what happened,” Twilight speculates, “it should be Wrenchy.”
“Let’s get ‘em inside y’all.” Applejack says.
“Indeed,” Rarity agrees.
The five of them pickup Fluttershy and Wrenchy taking them out of the barn and setting them gently inside the house one on each couch.
They look on to the both of them, the courage of Fluttershy and the obvious exhaustion of Wrenchy who looks almost dead laying there on the couch. “I so much want to kick that witch’s tail for what she’s done,” Rainbow says softly with an eagerness for a fight.
“I think you might get that chance Rainbow because I don’t think we got rid of her, just bought us some time,” Twilight says looking between them all.
“Let this next fight be the last my darlings,” Rarity says also wanting a fight, “This lady has had enough of this witch.”
“Yeah,” Pinkie Pie says, “No one does that to my friends and no one crashes one of Pinkie Pie’s parties, no one.”
“You see that amulet glow?” Applejack says looking at it again as it is back to its soft glow around Fluttershy’s neck
“I think that is the key to defeating her for good,” Twilight says speculating, “the amulet took Fluttershy’s strength and gave it to him. I think that is the only way to defeat her, from the inside out. We have to find a way to get her out of him first before we are able to fight her.”
“With the amulet?” Applejack speaks up again.
Twilight nods, “It would appear so.”
“Sounds like we have a plan guys,” Rainbow says while looking between Fluttershy and Wrenchy.
Meanwhile the crowd dispersed after they left the barn except for the mayor which she made sure the Crusaders stayed inside until they came in with Fluttershy and Wrenchy then leaving after wishing them goodnight and saying to contact her if they need anything. They all agree and one by one they head for another couch or free bed to sleep at Sweet Apple Acres for the night to watch over them.
It was like coming out of darkness with the senses awakening first then the body wakes up after that. A headache tells him that he’s still alive and he thinks to himself whether or not that’s a good idea after what just happened. He tries opening his eyes with a soft moan and gets them partially open. Hey I can see he thinks to himself seeing an empty living room. Front door was near him and he thought he saw apple trees outside then his eyes scouts the room and finds pictures of prized apples, a few books on the history of apples, probably courtesy of Twilight, and he’s pretty sure there’s an apple blanket over him.
I wonder if I’m still at Sweet Apple Acres? He thinks to himself then Nah he thinks jokingly. They must have carried me in here to rest after…he rather not think about that right now.
“Hey,” Comes a familiar high pitched young filly’s voice then a second later she comes into view, “I think he’s waking up.”
Applejack comes over and lowering her head looking into his eyes intently, “You sure? I’ve seen you sleep like that sometimes Apple Bloom.”
He doesn’t let on that he’s awake, or at least trying to be sense his eyes are only partially open. I think I can have some fun with this he thinks to himself, after all I need a good laugh right about now.
“I’m telling you I think he’s awake.”
“Alright Apple Bloom let’s see,” Applejack moves the blanket some then picks up one of his hoofs with one of hers, raising it up high then letting it go and seeing it drop back down, “I don’t know I think he’s still out.”
“Try it again.”
“Alright,” she does it again.
I wonder if I can hold up my own foreleg he wonders and he tries to when she lets him go. When she does he finds that he can hold it fairly steady but not quiet and so uses it to his advantage. Letting it move slowly in the air sometimes back and forth then around in a circle all the while not moving anything on his face.
“What the…,” Applejack looks in a little surprise.
“You don’t think that she is…,” Apple Bloom speculates.
“Hold on, I got here a sure fire way to find out,” Applejack says and heads off to somewhere.
I think it just backfired he thinks to himself.
“Here we go,” Applejack says coming back with two feathers.
Yep it backfired.
“One for you Apple Bloom.”
I’m in trouble, Warning, Warning, Warning. Shields, protective bubble, help
They start to tickle him and he couldn’t help himself and he starts to laugh softly with a bit of raspy sound due to his thrashed voice and wiggles as much as he could, though not much considering.
“Apple Bloom,” Applejack teases, “I think we got life.”
They still continue to tickle him, “Yeah but who’s in charge Applejack?”
He tries to get out an, “It’s me Wrenchy.” In-between laughs and succeeds only barely.
“Hey there sugar cube,” she says to him and stops tickling him and Apple Bloom stops as well.
Oh, thank heaven, “Hi.” He smiles and opens his eyes the rest of the way as his body really begins to wake up now then blinks a couple of times slowly and widely, “How long was I out?”
“A little over a day,” Apple Bloom says looking to him.
“How do you feel?”
He thinks a second, “Like your barn decided to collapse on top of me and every board aimed for my body.”
“You are exhausted aren’t you Wrenchy?” Apple Bloom says.
“It’s no wonder, you did kick a good hole in the wall of the barn.”
“I did what?”
“Yeah right through and Applejack says that it would have bucked down a whole tree.”
“I don’t remember doing that,” he says wondering what else could have happened, “The last thing I remember clearly was when she just took control over me the first time then after that it begins to get a little blurry.”
“I tell you,” Applejack looks to him, “you were the wildest stallion that I ever did see last night.”
“Did I hurt anyone?”
“Nope,” Applejack says then looks to Apple Bloom, “Why don’t you get Fluttershy and the others and tell ‘em the good news.”
“Ok,” she says running off.
“Fluttershy is ok? Everyone?”
“Everyone is fine even Fluttershy.”
He sighs in relief and after a couple of minutes the whole gang rushes in with Fluttershy actually in the lead and gets to him first. His heart leaps when he feels her nuzzling his neck and hears her sweet soft voice in his ears, “Oh are you alright? How do you feel?”
He knows that all eyes and ears are on him but at this moment the only one he wants to see is her, “Like the barn fell on me and won’t get off.”
“Well, just you rest and get your strength back,” Fluttershy encourages putting a hoof to his head.
He looks up to her, “Some of it, after she first took over is just a blur. Then I remember being in darkness, floating, and heard you call me,” his voice still soft and raspy, “I think I remember feeling something helping me to control her?”
Fluttershy shushes softly rubbing his head with her hoof gently, “just rest, we’re glad to have you back.” The rest of them agreed with mutterings of just get some more rest.
He couldn’t help it when feeling her hoof against his head and her sweet voice again, it was like all the walls that he had built up suddenly came crashing down. Tears welled in his eyes then begins to fall, “Oh Fluttershy…she…she just…just wouldn’t stop.” Crying as her hoof continues to rub his head softly, “I tried so hard. She just wouldn’t stop.”
“Let it go,” Fluttershy encourages softly laying her head gently on his, “just let it go.”
He does so and let the flood of emotion flow in tears falling from his eyes and his hooves wrap around her.
Applejack motions for the others to follow her outside and they do so to leave the two of them to deal with the emotional aftermath.
“Last night really shook him the poor dear,” Rarity speaks first and just thinking about it makes her heart ache for him.
“Well, at least she won’t be back for a little bit anyway,” Twilight hopes.
Pinkie Pie just looks to the house and one of those rare times when something profound comes through her, “Cleaning wounds is the only way for them to heal. That’s what Fluttershy is helping him do now.”
“Wow Pinkie,” Rainbow says with surprise, “you know sometimes you scare me.”
“I know,” Pinkie says with eyes wide, “I get scared too,” then her face goes back to normal, “then I have some frosting and it’s all better.”
“He’ll need to strengthen up though if he wants to get through this,” Rainbow says to the group.
“Rainbow have a heart,” Rarity says to her.
“No, I think Rainbow’s right,” Applejack says, “besides he’s going to need help gettin’ back on his hooves again anyway, might as well prepare him for this last fight. After he gets his strength back of course.”
After a few minutes they see Fluttershy trot up to them, “He’s sleeping again.”
“Hopefully with sweet dreams,” Twilight says quietly, then saying with encouragement about how they have a plan, “We think at least. I want to go to Zecora’s to confirm my suspicions.”
They all go where they need to for now, Rainbow Dash to cloud busting. Rarity heads to her boutique. Fluttershy goes to her animals, but tells them she’ll be back tonight to check on him and Applejack says that would be fine. Pinkie Pie going to Sugar Cube corner working up another crazy something for someone then she said it’s off to babysitting for Mr. and Mrs. Cake.
As the day wore on and the afternoon started to turn into evening he would drift in and out of sleep and watch the late evening go by in spurts. At one point he heard her softly singing to him. Oh that sweet wonderful voice of hers that only her whisper could command him at will and with such joy in its action. A gentle touch is all she would need to calm him and relax him.
Now dreaming his ears welcome her gentle voice as he looks up at a beautiful night sky filled with stars twinkling happily as he lays comfortably upon a sea of grass in a clear meadow. It was so perfect, “The only thing that would make it better would be that she was here with me.” Then scoffs, “Yeah, like that’s ever gonna happen, I mean really here and not something my head cooked up. Wouldn’t that be something, we could have the time of our lives right here in dreamland together, talk all the night through and still get a good night’s sleep.”
He hears her humming stop and he stretches out as far as he can hearing a couple of places pop in the process, “Well, she probably went to bed. I wonder how Applejack and Big Mac did in the field today. I’m so grateful for Applejack her family letting me stay here until I get my strength back, but I feel like a paperweight not helping out and all.” He had to laugh seeing the state that he’s in, “I guess I am one until tomorrow morning or so.”
About a couple of minutes later he hears her voice once more but this time a lot closer just as if it wasn’t too far away. Standing up he looks out and sure enough he starts to see a light yellow figure singing her way over to him? “Ok, did I make this up?” He can’t help but smile as the voice washes over him as it hits his ears, “Oh who cares, I’ll take it anyway.” Positioning himself so that she can’t help but to run into him he slowly walks to her.
When she notices him her face brightens like the sun in the sky and his own heart skips a beat and explodes with joy, “Fluttershy.” He gets out her name speaking with happiness then a second later locked in a deep kiss that both shocks him and excites him to his core. Closing his eyes his rump slowly sits down on the ground as his back hind legs give out from under him. His whole body relaxes welcoming this deep kiss. His wings slowly slide off his back and to the ground weak as his body surrenders to her willingly, leaning into the kiss his feels like he’s soaring though haven’t left the ground.
Seconds go by as the kiss makes its mark on them both then they slowly part. His heart so full of joy it sends his head spinning and takes a deep breath once unlocked from its embrace. His eyes show all his emotions through them as they slowly open meeting hers as in this moment, right now, they lock in silent communication. Her soft words hits his hears like a flood that slowly washes over him and he welcomes in drowning himself in it, “I have a confession Wrenchy.”
His own voice soft and filled with the emotions running through his very soul speaks to her, “It seems I have one too, but ladies always first. Besides my head is still spinning.”
While in this dream he wonders if this is the way she would act in reality. His heart wishes it were so.
She giggles and steps up leaning into him, shoulder to shoulder and as if on cue his body lowers to meet hers equally. She places her head on his back resting there, “Then lean on me and hear my confession.”
His body as if being controlled by her, though he doesn’t mind anyway, lowers and he feels her against him and his heart melts at her touch with her head on his back and her voice once again overflowing into his ears, “You make my days bright, the days worth signing until the light fades, looking forward to the night where our souls can mingle together in the realm of dreams and relish the rising sun to sing again with you at my side. I love you Wrench Heart for you have surely wrenched this mare’s heart from her chest and made it your own.” He feels her gentle kiss on his back and it sparks an excitement in him so unexpected yet so welcoming igniting a longing within him that he didn’t even know existed.
His voice soft yet flowing with longing for her he too rests his neck upon her back now in like manner, “You have been by my side, you give me a strength I have yet to understand, your softest touch commands my spirit, and your softest voice commands my soul. It seems that I have been swimming in a sea filled with your scent, your touch, your voice, your very being and now I welcome myself in drowning in it. My heart, my spirit, my body, every bit that I am is now yours,” he kisses her back in like manner with her then slowly makes his way up her back, “Claim me and take me.”
“Claim me as your own then Wrench Heart for I am yours as well now and forever,” her voice filling his ears as he feels her kissing up his back as he kisses up hers. Soon he feels her on his neck as he is on hers, each kiss turns to passion using his teeth to run up and down her neck filled with longing as she in turn does to him sending waves of shivers up and down his spine. Like minds joined as one as their lips reach each other again locking in a deep passion of longing for one another.
Unknown to the both of them inside Fluttershy’s cottage the amulet around her neck glows brighter until it fills the room.
He feels suddenly engulfed in energy and a feeling so warm and welcoming it’s as if he can feel her long for him as if it was his own longing for her. His mind doesn’t comprehend but the spirit welcomes openly her feeling of love and longing.
In her own dream as she kisses him she is engulfed in a white glow of energy and is washed in warmth and longing that she can only explain as coming from him. She doesn’t understand but welcomes it and drinks it in losing herself in it. As the light fades, as does Wrench Heart from her dream, the feeling from him for her still remains and in the sea of the flowers of the meadow she lays down, closes her eyes, and embraces it. She lays there enjoying the feeling as it seems to cover her like a blanket. A smile on her face she stretches there as if to make sure it sinks in to the deepest part of her.
As the light fades from him she disappears from his dream but that longing for him, that love for him remains, filling him to the very core. Eyes still closed, as he doesn’t want to open them out of fear this feeling of warmth and love would go away, he lays down. It washes over him like the waves of the sea crashing on the shores he loses himself in its movements.
^_^
Back at Canterlot Castle Princess Luna suddenly opens her eyes with a shock, not out of fear, but out of unexpectedness. “Did I just get,” her mind thinking upon what just happened, “thrown out of their dream?” She initialized the dream where Fluttershy would enter into his dream as a way of a type of therapy for him. What she saw wasn’t exactly what she expected from them but once started she didn’t want to feel like she was eavesdropping on their most intimate moments but she had to stay in order for her to interact with him. To just cut them off like that, well, she just couldn’t do that either. She was happy for them of course, moving from her place by the window and into a bathroom to take a cold shower, she hoped that it would be enough to defeat Aurora.
^_^
Fluttershy woke up the next morning still with the feelings from the dream, like they are a part of her now as she stands and takes a quick stretch. That warmth from last night lingering inside of her makes her feel so wonderful she goes to the window of her small balcony, opening the window starting to sing softly. The animals come up to her with sayings of how good she looks this morning and she seems to glow, “Oh thank you my friends. I do feel so wonderful this morning,” she begins to explain as she starts with her usual morning chores for the animals, “and I had the most beautiful dream last night.”
The animals inquire and they see quite clearly and a question from them comes right to the point. She had to blush but then nods feeling like a little filly again, “Yes actually, he was in my dream last night.” The animals get closer and a little more excited some bouncing wanting the details, “I was walking in a field of flowers and he was walking slowly to me. It felt so good to see him. I kissed him and it was so wonderful then we exchanged our love for each other.” “And oh my friends,” she continues clearly overjoyed as she comes back into the cottage from finishing her morning chores for the animals, “I can still feel it even now.” Closing her eyes feeling it wash over her once more just as powerful as in her dream.
She looks to herself once after the animals point out that she can’t go out like that, “Oh you’re right my friends after the chores I have got to get cleaned up.” They chirp up, and speak up in their own way, “Oh you’ll help me get ready? Thank you so much I want to look my best for him today.”
Meanwhile back at Sweet Apple Acres Wrenchy stood just outside of the house standing tall like he was standing on top of the world. He couldn’t believe that what he felt last night he could still feel this morning as he took a deep breath as if smelling the sweetest rose. His wings spread as far as they could as he stretched in the morning’s soft glow. That feeling of her love washed over him again and he slowly let out his breath finishing the stretch just in time to hear Applejack, “Well, don’t you look radiant this morning.”
“Good morning Applejack,” he says still under the euphoria of last night and hoping it won’t ever go away either, “I feel like I could buck the whole orchard.”
Applejack laughed, “Well, you won’t have to cause this morning it’s stacking the hay bales then you helping me fix the whole you kicked in the barn.”
“Ok,” he chuckled waiting for her to lead the way then noticing that inquiring look on her face, “What? I just had a good night’s sleep, that’s all.”
“Oh no you don’t sugar cube, you can’t tell that to me and get away with it. You can’t go from what I saw yesterday to today without somethin’ happenin’,” she looks to him with a grin, “aint tellin’ huh?”
He shakes his head.
“A’right then, let’s go and get some work done,” she gives in and leads the way to start collecting and stacking the hay bales.
Fluttershy left her cottage feeling great as he animal friends help her get ready with a couple of different colored flowers in her mane and tail. She, and the animals, took her time with her coat, mane and tail because she seems to glow softly in the morning light. She trots through the market getting some fruit in a basket and leaving for Rarity’s not noticing how many of the stallions heads she is turning in the market.
Soon stepping up to the boutique and knocking on the door, “Rarity?”
“Come on in Fluttershy,” Rarity says from inside.
“Good morning Rarity,” she says happily as the door shuts behind her not seeing her, “I have some fruit for you but leave some for Wrenchy. Um…Rarity where are you?”
“Oh I’m back here,” she says from the back room, “I’ll be out in a minute.”
“Anything I can do to help?”
Rarity comes out of the back room not immediately seeing her, “No thanks, I can…Fluttershy,” Rarity says stunned, “You look just stunning this morning.”
She blushes, “Thanks Rarity I wanted to look good for Wrenchy this morning.”
“Well darling, if this doesn’t get him jumping over the moon nothing will.” She looks at the fruit, “You didn’t have to but thank you Fluttershy, and I can have this for lunch,” Rarity says thankfully and only taking about three good size fruits and leaves the rest. “Thank you again Fluttershy and give my best to Wrenchy.”
“I will Rarity,” she says happily and leaves the boutique and heads for Sweet Apple Acres.
Back at Sweet Apple Acres Wrenchy was busy stacking the last of the bales from the last batch that Applejack and Big Mac dropped off for him. This was just the second batch of three and he was starting to get a little tired. He had to laugh a little that even though he felt great, which he still did, his body told him to take it easy but he just couldn’t help himself. The hard work was doing him wonders as he finished placing the last bale on the pile from his batch. His coat was draped down with sweat and hard work and he noticed that at this height he could just barely see above the canopy.
Closing his eyes he takes a deep breath taking in the warmth of the sun and feeling the breeze against his sweaty coat creates a cool sensation against his skin. His ears starts to pick up the soft pats of hoof beats softly walking their way up the path to the barn. He opens his eyes expecting Applejack and Big Mac with the final batch but it wasn’t. The sight he saw was way better. He spots her first with her light yellow coat seemingly to mix with the light of the morning sun as the two dance creating a beautiful sight to his eyes and breathtaking to his lungs.
She soon spots the barn after leaving the tree line of the apple trees then she spots him. She didn’t know why but she expected him to be awake this morning and feeling much like she is and of course Applejack would have him working hard already. Her heart skips a beat at the sight he poses to her eyes standing tall ever watching and forever making her feel safe and secure with him. She steers off the path and heads toward him slowly with a warm smile on her face as warmth floods her again.
He couldn’t help but let out a quick soft laugh out of pure joy seeing her head toward him and he steps down from the bales of hay. They were stacked like stairs so he slowly made his way down and noticed it felt like a dream to him. Again like last night walking toward her and her sight in his eyes enraptures him and his heart. This time though, it was obviously not a dream.
Applejack stops cold seeing the sight of Fluttershy approaching Wrenchy and how beautiful she looks and Big Mac stops next to her, “Big Mac?”
“Yep?”
“Do you see what I do?”
His voice comes out a second later, “Yep.”
“Good morning Wrenchy,” Fluttershy says to him almost singing the greeting.
His eyes close a little as his nose concentrates on her scent. Whatever she did he really approves whether it be soap, just the flowers or both with the combination of the fruit he smells in the basket. He takes a deep breath taking in all her scent and presence. “Good morning Fluttershy,” he says softly, tenderly and looking into those beautiful eyes that never ceases to capture him.
“How are you feeling?” he hears her say almost singing again the question to him. He smiles down to her, “I felt great watching the sunrise this morning, but that pales in comparison to the view I have now.”
She giggles, “Hard at work already. Well, it’s good for you. Here,” she takes a peach out of the basket with one hoof and raising it up to his lips, “a little snack before lunch.”
She places the peach inside his mouth and he moans just a little at the sweet taste. Some juice escapes running down his lips and he closes his eyes just savoring the moment. Then he feels her lips brush ever so softly against his and his body almost goes limp. When the kiss is broken he takes in a deep breath. Her love washing over him again like waves upon the shore. His eyes open slowly to see her starting to walk away.
Then she stops, turns her head back to face him with a smile and uses her tail to wipe away the last of the juice from his lips, “Now go back to work and I will see you at lunch.” Just before she turns away she licks the juice from her lips then heads to the house.
His mind gets lost looking into those beautiful eyes gulping down the last of the peach. His voice portrays the emotions that she stirs in him, the love for her and the desires that she ignites in him also reflecting in his eyes, “Yes, ma’am.” He almost chokes on the words as they come out of his mouth, then he watches her walk up the path to the house until she disappears inside.
Applejack turns to Big Mac and seeing him actually sweat, “You think he can work after that?”
Big Mac gulps out a soft, “Nope.”
She laughs softly and takes her hat off and fans him.
He pushes her away playfully.
She can’t help but give out a teehee laugh and places her hat back on her head, “Come on let’s see if we can’t snap him out of it.”
He was able to get his mind into the work again and after a little bit he was back into the swing of stacking the last bits of the hay bales. Using his wings he was able to hold on to bales with his hooves and hover the bales on top of each other for the high ones. By the time he got done with the very last one he was breathing heavily when he landed softly on the ground.
“Finally,” Wrenchy says as he breathes heavily panting, “That’s the…last one.”
“You look tuckered, Wrenchy,” Applejack notices as she too got a good workout from pulling the cart even with Big Mac’s help then kicking the hay bales to help Wrenchy.
“I am yeah, even though my spirit is high, my body though,” he’s able to say with his breath normal, “not so much.”
Applejack gives a quick laugh, “Well sugar cube, no worries. You can go fix the whole in the wall then cleanup yourself up for lunch. I don’t think either Fluttershy or Granny will appreciate you sweatin’ all over the table.”
“No, I suppose not.” he agrees, “Ok then I’ll see you and Mac at lunch. Where are you two going?”
Big Mac spoke up this time, “South Field.”
“Just a couple of things to do before lunch,” Applejack says while taking her hat and fanning herself some. “We won’t be too long with the heat building up like this, so you go on and fix that hole and we will be there a little later. Come on big brother.”
“Ok,” he says to them as they trot off and he turns to go fix the wall. It wasn’t too much trouble either, as the two boards needed with hammer and nails were already at the hole, so all he had to do was patch it up. “Well, it shouldn’t be too hard.” He was surprised on how quickly he used the hammer and nails. It was as if he already knew how but he quickly shrugged it off finished boarding up the hole. Taking a quick look to make sure that Applejack would be satisfied, “Yeah I think so.” Hardly any gaps between the boards and the boards being large enough to cover all of the hole he was satisfied.
As Wrenchy entered the house the smell of lunch came up and tickled at his nose and he could see Fluttershy in the kitchen, “Smells good Fluttershy.”
She turns hearing that baritone voice she has come to love, “Thank you so much, now go get cleaned up. Lunch will be ready shortly.”
He smiles, “Yes, ma’am.” Then he heads to take a nice cold shower for two reasons. Reason one is that he was hot and needed to cool down, which is always a good idea on hot days. Reason two was her, she could always turn his head several times over and ignite his heart. When he was sure he had himself under control he washed and dried himself for lunch.
Coming back out, he spots her putting the last thing on the table with her mouth and her front hooves on the edge of the table. Trying his best to be quiet he sneaks up to her and lowers his head putting his nose gently against the base of her back.
She could hear him coming so she pretended to be looking over the table. Her eyes close when she feels his nose against her and lets the wave he gives her wash over her like rain.
He breathes deep taking in her scent. His nose picks up the smell of peaches and closes his eyes letting his nose slowly trail up her back as the scent guides his way.
Her breath deepens and her wings open for him letting him have full access to her back. She welcomes the shivers he gives her as those shivers follow his nose. Slowly her wings wrap around him with one around his broad shoulders and the other running through his mane. Her nose picks up his scent, the scent of a stallion fresh from a shower and breathes him in. When his nose reaches the base of her neck she lets out her breath slowly moaning his name softly just for him to hear.
He notices that they are breathing nearly in unison and a part of his mind is wondering how that could be but most of it is concentrated on her. Relishing the chance for him to tease her he kisses her neck slowly then resting his head on her shoulder and whispers into her ear, “You smell better than the sweetest rose and look more beautiful than the rising sun.”
Her heart just melts as she hugs him to her with her wings feeling his chest on her back. She lets out a giggle turning her head to him, “You know just what to say to a girl.”
He moves to kiss her lightly on her lips, “Only you.”
“Good morning you two,” Granny Smith says startling them into a sudden stance beside one another.
He moves first and snapping to a type of attention pose next to Fluttershy, “Um…morning Granny Smith.”
Fluttershy yelps softly suddenly down from the table, “Oh we’re sorry, good morning Granny Smith.”
“Oh now don’t you two worry your heads around me,” she says in her that sweet aged voice of hers, “I was in love once myself you know.”
Fluttershy and Wrenchy relax and smile to one another as they notice her slowly walk her way over to where she usually eats for lunch. Then from outside they hear hoof beats, “Come on Big Mac let’s get cleaned up for lunch.”
Pretty soon they were all having lunch then they hear Granny, “I remember when I was in love. Oh what a handsome stallion he was.”
Fluttershy and Wrenchy look to each other and just smile then go back to their lunch.
“Here she goes again,” Applejack says with a sigh then sees Fluttershy and Wrenchy simply eating with smiles on their faces, “Are you two up to something?”
“Not at all,” Fluttershy says in that I’m slightly offended voice then goes back to her lunch with a slight smile on her face.
He can’t help it and one side of that smile slips up slightly, “Nope.”
Applejack’s eyes dash between them, “I’m keeping my eye on you two.” She then looks from them to Granny and back again but when she looks away from them again out of the corner of her eye all she sees is a flash of color and a piece of her lunch is gone. Her eyes snap to Wrenchy which smiles back innocently. Thinking a second she slowly takes a fork in one hoof, slowly looking away and if she times it just right.
A sudden sound of forks meeting in the middle of the table is heard and Applejacks satisfied voice, “Aha, I got myself a thieving varmint.”
Slowly raising his other hoof in the air level with his head and just behind it in a type of stance one might expect from a sword fight. He smiles to her playfully.
“You think that you can take this bull by the horns?” Then she notices his eyes twinkle with anticipation, “Oh it…is…on.”
The sound of forks clinking over the table and the soft laughs of the opponents is heard and the only thing that Fluttershy can do is just smile and shakes her head.
“I think Applejack is rubbing off on him,” Fluttershy says to Big Mac.
“Eyup,” is all Mac says shaking his head.
“I thought I stopped raising kids long ago,” Granny Smith says looking upon the fork fight.
Suddenly the door bursts open and Spike comes in panting heavily, “Applejack, I have a…” he takes a few breaths, “give me a…”
All at the table stops and watches Spike come in, the fork fight gets put on hold, the meal is forgotten for the moment as Spike continues, “It’s Princess Celestia. She will be here tomorrow for a visit with the Mayor then with Twilight. After the meetings Pinkie Pie wants to throw another party.”
“Well,” Applejack says, “I’ll be.”
Spike walks up to Wrenchy, “Rarity wants you over at the boutique for the fitting of your suit.”
“Well, better get going Wrenchy and you will be with me tonight at the cottage,” Fluttershy says giving him a quick kiss.
He kisses her when their lips meet then speaks when they separate, “Ok.”
Applejack can’t help but laugh, “That’s one lady you don’t want to keep waiting.”
“No kidding,” he says walking up to Spike, “need a ride somewhere?”
“Yeah,” Spike says jumping onto his back, “Drop me off at Twilight’s.”
“You got it,” he says and trots outside then once outside the house he takes flight for Twilight’s Castle first then to the boutique.
“I wonder why Celestia is coming?”
“Don’t know Fluttershy, but it could be good or bad depending on the condition of Aurora. Speaking of which what happened in the barn?” Applejack says.
“As soon as I hugged him my strength went away and I think I went asleep then.”
Applejack looks to Fluttershy quizzically, “Yeah, but how?”
“I think I have the answer to that one,” Twilight says in the doorway.
“You notice she pops up just when needed?” Applejack says.
“Eyup,” Big Mac assures.
“You see I went to Zecora to confirm my suspicions and they were correct. The amulet takes energy from pony or zebra to another. So, when Fluttershy hugged him the amulet made contact with the one needing the energy and took that energy from Fluttershy. With the way that amulet works using that method it could take energy from any number of ponies making it almost limitless. Here’s the catch though the amulet only uses energy from ponies or zebra’s that really care for the one needing that energy.”
“In that case why don’t I just give him the amulet the next time that I see him?”
“Good idea there Fluttershy, that way it will always be on him and the energy can be transferred almost instantly right Twilight?”
He lands in front of the boutique and knocks on the door.
“Come in,” Rarity says from inside.
He does so and he spots her on the other side of the front room, but her little sister spots him first before he could announce himself.
“Hi Wrench Heart,” Sweetie Belle pipes up coming up to him, “Rarity, Wrench Heart is here.”
“Wrenchy,” Rarity says trotting up to him, “I’m glad you’re here for your fitting before Celestia comes tomorrow.”
“Rarity can I go with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo for the afternoon?”
“Oh I suppose so,” Rarity says cautiously, “as long as you stay out of trouble.”
“Ok,” Sweetie Belle glees, “thanks Rarity. Bye Wrench Heart.”
“Bye Sweetie Belle,” he says with a smile.
“Now it’s my turn come on to the back and we will get this fitting done.”
He follows her to the back where she motions to a suit hanging loosely around a typical sized stallion mannequin. “I’m really anxious to see how this fits,” Rarity starts, “You see I made it so that the coat has the long split tail which goes over the tail and it’s buttoned right now. So it could go as a split or as one piece then there is the shirt and tie underneath. Now go on and try it on.”
He takes the suit and goes behind a screen and to his surprise he is able to put it with relative ease. Fluttershy explained a great many things to him after they first met including the clothes that they have here in Equestria, which is used for special occasions. Remembering that, he was able to get the suit on. He liked how long the coat was as it ended just before his flanks and the tail of the coat extending over his tail covering it. He had trouble with the tie though, so he comes from behind the screen, “Could you help with the tie? I haven’t quite figured that one out just yet.”
“Of course,” Rarity smiles trotting up and using her magic she puts the tie around his neck where it needs to be under the shirt collar then tucking it in under the coat. “Now give me a good pose.”
He does so as best as he could because this is for Fluttershy.
“Why that is just positively dashing.” She says walking around him eyeing the lines, the seams, and making sure. She stops in front of him eyes his mane, “The mane isn’t quite right. Perhaps…no…how about.” She ponders over it and about a minute later it struck her and she gasps in total delight, “Oh darling I have an idea for your mane that with the suit would put Prince Charming himself to shame. You have just enough hair on the top of your head to pull it off. Speaking of off.” She uses her magic to take the suit off in one whoosh and carefully putting it on the mannequin, “Tomorrow morning I want you and everyone to come early so we can all get ready and I will take care of that mane of yours that will turn Fluttershy’s head many times over.”
He smiles now curious as to what she has in mind, “Alright I’ll tell Fluttershy.”
“That’s good and I’ll have Spike tell the rest, now go and get some rest darling.”
“Good night Rarity and thank you,” he says
“You are very welcome darling, see you in the morning,” Rarity says leaving him.
He trots out the door and once outside he flies to Fluttershy’s cottage.
He can’t help but yawn and enters the cottage, “What a day,” he says then sees Angel sitting where he would normally sleep but there isn’t any blankets there. “Hi Angel where’s Fluttershy I have to tell her something before bedtime?” Upon seeing Angel motion for him to come over he does so leaning his head down to be on his level, “What is it?” Then he hops off in the direction of her bedroom and motions for him to go in, “Oh ok.” Thinking nothing of it he walks to her room, although he’s never been in her room he’s only going in to tell her what Rarity said then he will go to the couch. He can sleep there even without blankets.
Upon entering her room he looks around not seeing her immediately. Just her bed a couple of tables with some pictures, flowers around the room in pots and two windows letting the dimming sunlight shine through. Then he hears the door starting to close so he turns to see her walking out slowly from behind the door. He sees her slowly shut the door with her tail while keeping a smile on her lovely face. Her eyes showing all that she showed him this morning but more than that. Her voice humming a soft tune that he hasn’t heard before but one that both excites him and makes him a little nervous.
“My mother taught me that and it’s only supposed to be sung once at only one time in a mare’s life at a very special moment in her life.”
He gulps as she takes a step toward him, her eyes fixed on him with all the love she feels for him but with a look that speaks almost like a predator. Just then the sound of rustling cloth is heard as the windows get covered and they are both blanketed in darkness except for a soft light. That light comes from the amulet that hangs around her neck glowing dimly. Those eyes of hers seems to light up almost like a cat as they look to him.
He gulps again and gets lost again into those beautiful glowing eyes.
Slowly the amulet glows a little more and a fresh wave of love and passion flows over him. He takes a deep sudden breath and can’t help but close his eyes as it overtakes him and his senses.
“Keep your eyes closed and stay still for me,” she says starting to hum the tune again.
He doesn’t know how but the humming is doing something to him, a heat starts to build inside of him. Then he feels their kiss and it’s like that heat becomes a raging fire that communicates itself through his lips locked with hers. Once the kiss ends she doesn’t start humming but says, “I love you. Tonight I claim you as mine.”
She slowly goes over to the bed and lays down looking to him, “Come to bed.”
The night would not soon be over as they rode the waves of passion together until it became a gentle rolling sea of love. Then slept together until morning in a deep and blissful sleep.
^_^
Rarity wakes up early because this is the morning that they all get ready and she quickly heads downstairs to the dressing room to get all their dresses together and Wrenchy’s suit ready.
“Morning Rarity,” comes Applejacks voice from the door as she naturally was the first to show up.
“Good morning Applejack,” she takes a look at her, “That will not do at all you simply must take a quick shower and redo your mane and tail.”
Applejack give a quick laugh, “Ok Rarity, I know by now not to argue with you on points like this.” She then heads for the shower.
“You’re learning Darling,” Rarity says as she gets a tub ready filled with hot water in a separate section of the room with a long privacy screen. The area is for Wrenchy only for two reasons: One to give privacy for the girls and two so that she can work on him in private in order to give Fluttershy her surprise to her.
Rarity takes a look over at Wrenchy’s section. The tub, towels, special scented soap for his coat then on the table the things she needs for his tail and mane makeover.
Hearing the door open and shut a few times let’s her know that the others are showing up. She sees Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight but doesn’t notice Fluttershy or Wrenchy right away.
Thinking that they will be here shortly she starts to help the other girls get ready. Pretty soon minutes fly by and just when Rarity was beginning to get worried the door bursts open with Fluttershy and Wrenchy rushing in.
“We are so sorry for being late Rarity,” Fluttershy speaks first heading for her a little out of breath.
“Yes, sorry,” Wrenchy says also a little winded, “kind of overslept this morning.”
“Finally,” Rarity says somewhat upset but also extremely relieved to see them, “I was beginning to get worried. Now Fluttershy off to the showers with you, the other girls will help and I will work on Wrenchy because I have a surprise for you darling.”
“You do?” Fluttershy inquires.
“You will love it trust me.” She looks to Wrenchy with a stern look, “Come Wrench Heart your makeover awaits.”
Wrench Heart looks to Fluttershy a second and seeing her nod and smile he follows Rarity behind the screen. Rarity motions for him to get in and he does so and immediate she begins to work on his coat letting the scented soap work its way in.
Soon he was out and being dried then when Rarity is satisfied with that she started to work on his tail. Even though it was going to be covered by the tail of his suit she wanted it styled none the less. His tail was thick so she couldn’t ponytail it quite like she wanted but a bright idea hit her that would work even better. She took his tail and made a large thick three strand rope out of it so it would keep most of its length then used one bead big enough to hold the ends together. “Perfect,” she whispers then quickly helps him with his suit, “Good just right so far and now for the finishing touch to send her head spinning.”
She loves his thick mane of hair that covers his head and neck and uses it to her advantage. She smooths out the hair then uses a type of hair gel to carefully comb it where she wants it to go and flow. Combing his mane so that it flows forward but to one side covering one eye almost like a mask. Taking her time to get it just right combing carefully his back hair of his mane now flowing over his neck on the same side as the one covering his eye. So his whole mane is smoothed out and flowing in one direction covering one eye in front and on the same side over his neck extending just below it.
“Just perfect,” she whispers with glee, “Now stay here for a minute until I tell you to come out.”
Rarity sees all the girls talking among themselves then walks up to them putting her hooves together to get their attention, “Girls, girls. I would like to present to you the most handsome stallion you have ever seen.”
On cue he steps out slowly from behind the screen and the girls just fall silent taking in his handsome presence. Twilight and Pinkie Pie whistle softly one after the other. “If there was a gold medal in handsome, you’d be platinum,” Applejack wows.
“He’s just delicious Rarity,” Fluttershy says in quiet awe over his makeover by Rarity.
He then looks to Fluttershy and seeing her dress takes his breath away, again. She looked so gorgeous to him in her flowery dress that represented everything about her.
He couldn’t help himself as he takes a few steps forward to her and yes they were all beautiful but only Fluttershy took his breath away. Once standing in front of Fluttershy he takes a look to them all, “Thank you all my friends. I have been privileged to be a part of this family of loving friends that is the best, brightest and the most beautiful girls of all of Equestria.”
“Aww,” they all say and most blush and they complement him on how handsome he looks and agrees with Rarity that he does indeed put Prince Charming to shame.
Then he looks to Fluttershy, “My dear Fluttershy, you have shown me a love that time will never break, given me a strength I can’t begin to understand, and a future I want more than life itself.” He takes a step back, “I am and always,” he bows to her lowering himself to the floor with one foreleg extended in front and the other tucked under him with his head low, “shall be yours.”
Fluttershy steps up to him using one hoof to raise his head then giving him a deep slow kiss.
“That is so beautiful,” Pinkie Pie says almost crying
After she breaks the kiss she turns standing beside him and looking to her friends, “We have an announcement to make.”
He smiles and nods to the other girls, “We’re getting married.”
Surprise then cheers comes from the other girls hearing that news.
“Wow Fluttershy,” Rainbow Dash says, “you never cease to surprise me.”
“I know you can tame wild beasts sugar cube,” Applejack speaks surprised, “but I didn’t know you could tame this wild beast.”
“Oh I don’t know why that’s a surprise Applejack,” Fluttershy says with a wide mischievous smile on her face, “it didn’t take that much to tame him.”
Some laughed and some jeered seeing the playful banter behind her voice.
“Really Fluttershy,” he spoke up this time to defend his male honor, “is that how you see me? Tame?” He looks to her with a smile going with the banter.
She giggles and kisses him lightly, “Not really no,” then trotting off with a grin, “at least you weren’t last night.”
They all nearly stopped, stunned and flabbergasted at that last statement. All he could do is follow them with the biggest blush on his face as the girls pester Fluttershy for the details.
Princess Celestia decided to have the meeting in the center of the town at Town Hall because it was just easiest for everyone to get to from all over Ponyville. When they came up to the door the guard opened the door for them and announced them each by name letting them inside.
Twilight looked at Fluttershy and Wrenchy, “We’d better go see the Princess just to make sure the plans haven’t changed.”
The three of them approached the Princess and luckily she wasn’t taken by anyone and took the typical bow.
“Hello Twilight and hello Fluttershy and…” She hesitated realizing she didn’t know his name.
“Wrench Heart your highness, I took that name because that is what my cutie mark is.”
“So you still don’t have any of your memory from the human world?”
He shakes his head, “To be honest though,” he takes a quick glance at Fluttershy, “I don’t mind not having it. I don’t know about the past but I’m very happy in the present and looking forward to a wonderful future.”
“And Aurora?” the Princess asks getting to the point.
“Don’t know. Ever since the barn I feel she’s been at the same level ever since. Could be biding her time.”
“I think that’s it,” Twilight says looking to Wrenchy, “I don’t think that she will make the same mistake twice. First she came up in stages, but this time I think she’s cut herself off from us from detecting her true level. Biding her time when she knows that she will have instant full control.”
The Princess looks concerned, “So, she could take control at any time then.” She then looks to Wrench Heart, “In that case I am pleased that you have such a positive outlook on this situation. Most would buckle under such a strain as I heard you have been under Wrench Heart.”
“To be honest your highness, for a time I did. Right after the barn incident, but…” his face brightens as he looks to Fluttershy and sees her blush when he puts his wing around her, “I have this very special lady to thank.”
“I’m looking forward to hearing the tale in full,” she says looking between the three of them, “in your castle Twilight after this meeting.” She turns her head seeing one of the Mayor’s assistant’s come up to her and whisper. “It seems she want to go ahead and have the meeting.” Looking at the treats brought by Mr. and Mrs. Cake she looks a little sullen, “All this looks good too.”
“Well, then take it with you,” Wrench Heart speaks up, “No reason why you can’t take the refreshments with you to the meeting. That’s why it’s here right?”
The Princess smiles, “Good point Wrench Heart I think I’ll do that and I will see you all later.” She picks up her cup and plate with her magic and heads to the door soon disappearing behind it and two guards appearing in front of it.
“How do you think that went Twilight?” Fluttershy asks.
“I guess we will find out later,” Twilight says.
“Oh, I almost forgot,” Fluttershy says taking off the amulet and putting it around his neck, “You need to keep this on you from now on ok?”
He smiles looking slightly down to her because of his height over her, “Yes, ma’am.”
Suddenly he hears Sweetie Belle, “Wow. Wrench Heart you look really handsome.”
He looked down to see the Cutie Mark Crusaders in their little dresses and couldn’t help but bring a big smile to his face. They must have been good for Rarity to agree to this, so he takes his bow to them, “Why thank you so much ladies, your compliment brings a warm feeling to my heart.”
Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom give a soft, “Aww.”
“Come on Crusaders I’m hungry,” Scootaloo says eyeing the food table.
“Oh come on Scootaloo,” pipes up Apple Bloom, “even you have to admit that Prince Charming can take lessons from him.”
“Bye Wrench Heart,” both Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom says following Scootaloo to keep her out of trouble.
“Bye ladies,” he says with a smile standing up again.
Fluttershy comes up beside him, “Those three are really sweethearts.”
He nods and smiles in agreement, “Yeah those three can really grow on you.”
He feels her nudge him, “What is it?” Then seeing her look to an odd looking creature that seems to be a mix of all sorts as she says, “Oh I was hoping Discord would show up.”
“Discord? Oh he’s the,” He thinks for a second, “’Master of Chaos’ as you put it?”
“Yes,” She says happily, “Come on I want you to meet him.”
They walk over to Discord who doesn’t appear all that happy at the moment.
“Discord,” She says coming up and hugging him, “I’m so happy you are here,” then motions to Wrenchy, “this is the pony I told you about so much in my letters.”
“Pleased to meet you Discord,” he says but suddenly he sees Discord have a big magnifying glass in his claw and stares at him through it.
“So this is him,” Discord says not satisfied, “let’s see what you see in him.”
Wrenchy actually took a quick laugh and looked to Fluttershy, “I actually wondered that myself.” Meanwhile Discord is taking his magnifying glass looking him over closely and carefully.
“Oh Wrenchy, you have wonderful traits,” giggling at both of them, “you’re good with the fillies, hardworking, you have a kind and gentle heart, you’re even good with my animals,” she walks up to him giving him a light kiss, “besides being strong and handsome.”
“What am I then,” Discord says obviously jealous, “chopped liver?” He suddenly changes into a big liver that is being chopped into tiny bits.
“Oh Discord,” she begins to hug him again so Discord changed back so she can do so, “he can never replace you.”
“Why would I?” he says, “I don’t replace Twilight or Rarity or the others. There’s different kinds of love Discord. The love that binds friends together then there’s a deeper love where two ponies can live together forever in each other’s company.”
“I love our times together Discord, he won’t take that away from us,” Fluttershy tries to reassure him.
The two spend time talking with Discord and pretty soon he begins to understand another lesson for him in the levels and mysteries of friendship.
“Ok guys,” Twilight says coming up on the group, “time to head to the castle. Hi Discord, how are you?”
“Fine thank you, so you all are heading to the castle huh?” Discord asks.
“Yes,” Fluttershy says to Discord, “she wants to discuss what’s happening with Wrench Heart and how we intend to defeat her for good.”
“We still on for tomorrow then my dear Fluttershy?”
“Of course Discord, I’ll see you then.”
Discord then opens a door out of thin air enters and closes it behind him.
Later at Twilight’s castle the seven of them were in the meeting chamber of the castle with Princess Celestia.
“So why don’t we start off with who we are dealing with,” the princess says to the group.
“Her name is Dark Aurora, from Zecora’s land.” Wrenchy spoke first deciding he should, all things considering, “They defeated her by placing her in the dark orb. Obviously she used it to her advantage so now after she was released she could possess someone. That was me by chance. Went to Zecora for this amulet which will help us defeat her. We got the idea on how to use to it defeat her.”
“That is good news,” the Princess says looking pleased, “How do you plan on doing that?”
“Well,” Twilight starts then gets interrupted when seeing Wrench Heart wince.
It happened suddenly without warning as Aurora in one big burst of energy within him overcame his strength to hold her back. Wincing and groaning in pain he feels himself quickly overcome and swimming in darkness again just like it was in the barn.
“Uh oh,” Applejack says.
“She’s back,” Rarity speaks up, “but this time will be different.”
They all agree as Fluttershy looks on but this time with an assured look on her face knowing that this will indeed be different.
A long female laugh comes from Wrenchy as Aurora takes control again, “Oh it is good to be back.” Aurora says strutting him around then seeing her surrounding, Twilight and her friends in dresses, the princess, “Well, now I must not have disconnected completely after all. All of you have dressed up so nice for me.”
Aurora takes a look down at the body she is controlling noticing what Wrenchy is wearing and rushes over to a basic mirror at the wall, “Oh my.” She takes a good look at him, “My sweet slave don’t you look just…” she turns him around and kisses the air as she knows that she can feel her kissing him in the darkness where he is.
Princess Celestia looks on with a look of understanding then a sympathy for Wrench Heart and the horror that she was told he went through and looks like will go through again.
“You even dressed him up for me.” She looks to him clearly attracted by what she sees in the mirror, “So strong and handsome.”
“It wasn’t for you,” Rarity speaks up looking to her with a quiet rage, “so hand him over before we force you out.”
Aurora laughs, “Oh please,”she struts around as if strutting around him and affect him like she did in the barn, “that amulet may have put me down, but I’m stronger than that now isn’t that my sweet?” She plays like she’s rubbing up against him and kissing his neck, “You see?” She says looking between them and to one side of her as if he was standing there, “He isn’t even moving. I think I’ve finally won him over, right my swee…” she stops and just stares beside her.
Fluttershy feels him even though Aurora is in control and can feel his amusement then his outright laughter when Aurora said that she’s won him over. She can’t help but laugh with Wrenchy.
Aurora takes a step back and looks between Fluttershy and off to her side, “Why are you two laughing?”
From inside the darkness he speaks to Aurora though no one can hear him, “What do you mean I can’t affect you my sweet?”
“That’s right Aurora,” Fluttershy takes a few steps forward, “you can’t affect him anymore. You want to know why?”
“What have you done you little witch?” Aurora looks to Fluttershy with hate, “What have you done to my sweet that I can’t reach him?”
“What I have done Aurora,” Fluttershy grins to her, “is made him mine. That is why you can’t affect him because only I can do that now and that is why this night is going to be your last.”
“WHAT?!” Aurora says in complete surprise, “OH why…you…little.”
“Wrench Heart,” Fluttershy says with confidence, “all my strength is now yours. Take it my love and finish her for good.”
Instantly the amulet glows brightly as a beam of white energy gets drawn from Fluttershy into the amulet and they see Wrench’s body glow the same color as the amulet. It doesn’t last that long as it starts to fade as Aurora begins to overcome it. “Don’t you see,” her voice comes out of his mouth again, “I am stronger than that now and there is nothing you can do about it.”
“We came prepared for that,” Twilight says stepping forward, “Now girls.”
The rest of them come up standing beside Twilight as she says, “He can have all our strength and use it to finish you.” Then her strength fades from her into the amulet.
“He will punish you for crashing one of my parties,” Pinkie says as her strength fades
“You are so out classed,” Rarity says falling into a deep sleep with the others
Applejack and Rainbow grin to each other bumping hooves, “Ours too,” they say and fall asleep together.
Wrench’s body glows brightly and steadily as a magical wind envelops him swirling around him with power, “Be gone.” Wrench Heart says taking control again and then all his memories from the human world returns to him in a flash. With the power the amulet gives him he expels her from him. She takes her own form out of his body through the chamber doors out into the hallway crashing on the floor.
He quickly levitates the girls laying them near Celestia and puts up a shield around them then looks to Celestia. “Stay out of this your highness, this is my fight. I got my memory back. Now you get to see what human ingenuity can do.” He trots to the doorway taking a look back satisfied that they will be out of the way in the corner.
“Get up you novice,” he says stepping through the door heading to the Zebra now getting up from the floor of the hallway, “I’ll show you just how out classed you really are. This fight you lose.”
Celestia watches over the girls and is able to shut the doors putting them back into place on their hinges with her magic. She hears the commotion of the fight outside and hopes that what they did was the right thing. The fight goes on for minutes as crash after crash is heard from outside the door and she can’t help but wonder what damage is being done. A minute later an explosion is heard and Wrench Heart comes crashing through the door, bouncing off of the table then hitting the back wall with a thud.
She can see drops of blood coming from the wounds that Aurora has inflicted upon him. He isn’t too steady standing up from landing on the floor she notices. One leg broken, probably a couple of ribs and a big bruise that is around the eye hidden underneath the hair that covers it. A blur of black and white comes streaking through the door with a cry of hate.
Wrench Heart is able to dodge in time as Aurora crashes into the back wall with her hind legs. Part of the wall falls behind her as she watches him limp his way away from her but staying near the wall. Aurora follows him and places herself in the middle of the room on the table. Aurora has her share of injuries from the fight as wounds are around her body as well. Not bad for a human Celestia thinks to herself. Though he’s probably doing it this way in order to get some sort of satisfaction out of it.
With a loud hateful cry Aurora charges at him.
Perfect, he thinks to himself secretly bringing spikes out of the wall behind him with the amulets magic then ducks as her hind legs hit the wall being impaled by the spikes. Her cries of pain comes to his ears with satisfaction but he’s not done yet. With what strength he has left he uses his hind legs to give her one good buck. Aurora cries in pain, her back pinned against wall as the spikes go through her body.
Breathing heavily he looks with glee upon Aurora pinned to the wall while he stands on three legs though not entirely steady. “You’ve lost,” he says stepping up to her, “Now die.”
With the last bit of her magic she hits him with a spell that sends him crashing into the table, “Maybe my sweet, but if I can’t have you,” she says passionately with hate, “then no one will.”
Celestia gasps in horror understanding what she did to him, “Oh no.” She looks to Fluttershy with her heart seeming to hit her stomach with sympathy, “Oh no.” Celestia also notices that the horn on Wrench Heart’s head has disappeared and the amulet breaks into pieces.
“With his memory gone,” she says softly as her body fades away piece by piece, “he will never wake up.”
The protective shield around Celestia and the girls disappear and their strength returns to them as one by one they come out of their sleep.
“Is it over?” Applejack says groggily as if waking up from a long night’s rest.
“Oh no,” Rarity says after spotting Wrench Heart.
“Wrenchy,” Fluttershy says rushing up to him, “Wrenchy, wake up, wake up.” She tries nudging him but he doesn’t move.
Celestia slowly walks over to her putting a gentle hoof on her, “I’m afraid I don’t think he will wake up. Aurora used a spell that…erased all his memories of us.”
The sound that came from Fluttershy wasn’t just crying but a waling of the spirit. She hugs him to her calling out his name for him to come back to her. Emotional pain of the thought of him never being by her side again seems to rip her apart. “No,” her voice wails, “no not my Wrenchy, come back, please come back to me.”
“I’m sorry, but there is nothing more that I can do,” the doctor says to the Princesses, both Luna and Celestia, and the six girls around his bed, “It’s not the injuries that is keeping him asleep. There is brain activity though if that helps any.”
“So, is he dreaming then doctor?” Princess Luna speaks up.
The doctor nods, “I believe so, but if his memory is indeed gone then what is he dreaming about?”
“I want to go into his dreams and find out,” Fluttershy looks to Luna her eyes still filled with flowing tears, “I need to do this. Whatever state he is in I need to see him.”
“Alright Fluttershy pull the other bed beside his and lay down, I will then put you to sleep and link you two so you can enter his dreams,” Luna says watching them pull up the bed and Fluttershy laying down. “Now remember this Fluttershy, only he will be able to see, hear, and even touch you. Nothing can hurt you while in his dreams, they are dreams after all.”
^_^
Amos John woke up to the morning alarm on his phone. After turning off the phone he quickly goes through his morning routine of preparing his lunch, getting dressed, then heading off to work. It only takes about fifteen minutes to get there luckily as one of his coworkers comes from thirty miles away to get there. Just thinking about that makes him glad he lives so close to it.
Soon just about fifteen minutes after leaving the house he parks in the parking lot of the construction company and heads on inside for the daily morning meeting. Walking into the meeting room he puts down his lunch box, jug of water, and clip board with storage compartment on the table and sits down. “I had a good night’s sleep, so why do I feel so tired?” he stretches then relaxes in the chair and waits for the meeting to start.
Luna and Fluttershy appeared in Wrench Heart’s dream and they take a look around.
“This must be the human world,” Luna says. They stand on a dirt road facing a long one story building with one small tall door in front and four big doors on the side of the building.
“He’s in there Luna,” Fluttershy says looking to the building.
“Be prepared Fluttershy,” Luna cautions, “more than likely he won’t know you at all and he might even be afraid of you.”
Fluttershy steadies herself trotting up to the building with Luna behind her.
“Alright people quiet down,” A tall big man says at the front of the meeting room, “topic today is three point contact. Always have three points of contact between you and the equipment when getting in and out. Either two hands and one foot or two feet and one hand. Nothing is worth getting hurt or dying over.”
The tall man looks to Amos John, “John, after servicing this morning I need you to haul three pieces for me. I need the skid loader and the broom at the school, then I need you to take the 936 front loader and take it to the bank. I need the loader moved first.”
“Why the bank Jim?” John asks the tall man.
“We’ve just started on the parking lot and we got a lot of dirt to move. Speaking of that,” Jim turns to the two other drivers, “you two grab the belly dumps and head for the bank. Adam will be there to tell you where to take the dirt at and I need all that dirt moved today Adam can you do it?”
John hears Adam speak of the amount of dirt being moved and thinks he can do it all today, then Jim turns to the other dirt crew for the school talking about laying the oil down today and the asphalt the following day. Out of the corner of his eye he thinks he spots something, so instinctively turning to look and jumps slightly in his chair. He can’t believe it and blinks a few times then looks again. Is that two ponies he sees? He shakes his head, no can’t be but looks again and the yellowish looking one is staring at him. He can tell they are both female due to his time of two years at an animal shelter, he has learned a few things.
“Hey John,” Jim calls out, “You ok?”
“I…um…” looking to Jim then back to the ponies then to Jim again, “not sure, but do you see anything over there at the door?”
Jim looks, “Nothing but the door why?”
“I see two ponies over there.”
They all burst out in laughter and Jack, one of the drivers grabs him on the shoulder, “Dang John, I think you have breathed in too much of that fuel and oil from the service truck of yours.”
“Well, let’s thank John for giving us a good laugh this morning,” Jim says now dismissing the group, “and let’s all have a safe day out there. Dismissed.”
They all begin to leave but John lingers behind and waits until everyone leaves and slowly walks up to the door. He’s instantly curious and stops about a couple of feet from the two ponies. The light yellow one slowly starts to walk up to him. She is a small one just above three feet tall, so he sits in the chair by the door and lets her walk up to him.
Immediately he feels something is different and can’t put his finger on it. He reaches out to her slowly like one would to a stray dog. She begins to nuzzle his hand slowly and closes her eyes. “Well, you are a friendly one aren’t you? I can feel you and touch you, but why couldn’t they?” He feels his hand starting to get a little wet and looks to see that tears are falling from her eyes, “Why are you sad? Have you lost someone?” Instinctively he gently tries to wipe her tears away this time bringing up his other hand to the other side of her head.
From his time in the animal shelter he knows that all animals can communicate, maybe not verbally but they do communicate none the less and what he sees in this yellow pony’s eyes is nothing but sadness. She moves closer and he pulls her into him and hugs her gently, “I’m sorry you are so sad.” Then suddenly the scent of peaches fills his nose then slowly backs up to look to her. Her head in his hands he can’t help but feel for her, as he did with all the animals that he took care of there at the shelter. “You smell nice anyway,” he says with a smile as if trying to cheer her up, “You smell like peaches. I’ve always liked that smell.”
He sees the light yellow pony look back at the darker one then to him again, “What?” Then suddenly images flash through his mine in vivid detail: “What do you want?” Luna steps forward, “Who are you?”
“What was that?” he leans back in the chair after the images disappear, “It was almost like a vision or parts of a dream.” Looking to the darker pony, “I just saw you in one of those images.” The light yellow pony looks up to him with a look he’s seen in the shelter before, one of happiness like a dog seeing its friend coming home from work. “Well, your attitude changed,” he said looking to the light yellow one now, “Did I say something right or something?”
The yellow one comes up and nuzzles his neck with her head and the scent of peaches assaults his nose again. This time more images flash in his mind this time almost like a movie in front of him but with him seeing through the first person’s eyes: “Fluttershy,” The name comes to his mind as he sees himself as he sees himself in the forest and meeting this yellow pony then following her to her cottage and taking a bath.
“What…was?” He pulls back from her not sure what to get from it, not really understanding it. The light yellow one looks to him with a quizzical look on her face. “I saw…you,” he says to Fluttershy, “I saw you in a forest…and you spoke to me. How can that be?” He moves back some as he tries to understand or at least get a grip on what is flashing through his mind. That name, he thinks to himself, could it be that pony’s name? He takes a breath and takes the chance, “Fluttershy.”
As soon as that name comes out the light yellow pony looks to him with what he can only describe as pure joy in her eyes and what comes from her mouth blows his mind, “Yes.”
“Wait…what?” he backs up some out of pure surprise, “Did you just…speak to me?”
“Yes,” Fluttershy says to him softly and moving very slowly as not to startle him.
“How is this possible?” He sees the darker colored pony walk up to Fluttershy and they look to each other as if communicating. Fluttershy seems to disagree but then slowly turns to follow the darker one. He watches with a little confusion and then Fluttershy turns back with tears in her eyes that is of joy now. He’s glad for her joy but a sudden panic hits him, “No wait,” he takes a few steps forward then seeing them look back. Sitting back in the chair again he can’t help but wonder, “Where did that come from? The sudden panic?”
Fluttershy slowly comes up to him and he looks to her, “For some reason,” his voice a little unsteady, “I don’t want you to leave. I don’t understand, but it’s as if I can’t bear to see you leave.”
To his amazement Fluttershy presses her lips to his softly. In his mind this is the most outrageous thing he has ever done in his life and yet it seems to calm him down. “I’ll return. Don’t worry,” he hears her say in a soft voice that seems to penetrate him in a way he doesn’t understand, “You will?”
“I will,” she says then he hears another voice call from the hallway, “Hey John?” Turning to see Sara the receptionist looking at him from the doorway, “You alright honey?”
He turns to see the two ponies are gone but her touch, scent and voice are still clearly etched in his mind, “I’m…not sure.”
Fluttershy woke up and immediately began crying and moved over to Wrench Heart and rubs her head against his. This time out of joy, “Oh Wrenchy, you are still there.” She looks up to Celestia, “He’s still there,” she says in between crying breathes, “His memories…are still there.”
Luna looks to Celestia, “It’s true sister. I don’t know how but he remembered when he was locked in the room at the castle. Then he remembered Fluttershy and called her by name.”
Celestia looked relieved, “Thank goodness.” She wonders just how the memories were protected from Aurora’s spell. Whether it be the bond between Fluttershy and Wrench Heart, the amulet, or both she is glad either way.
Twilight and the rest of the girls hugged Fluttershy.
Luna looks to Fluttershy and her voice speaks caution, “Fluttershy, I’m glad that he remembered but know this. It will take a little time for his memory to fully return.”
“I don’t care,” Fluttershy says through tears of joy, “I don’t care how long it takes. I knew he was there when he smelled peaches, when I didn’t have any or any scent of peaches on me.”
“I get it.” It was Twilight who spoke up, “His mind put it there so he could start remembering. Smell is one of the most powerful types of memory so naturally it would start there.”
“There will come a time,” Luna continued, “when he will start to remember all of you, so at that time we could start putting all of you together in his dream, but until then let us go slowly with caution.”
Fluttershy wipes away some tears, looks to Luna again with a voice a still tinged with tearful joy, “Can we try again right now?”
Luna looks to Fluttershy and although she thinks otherwise she gives in, “Alright, dreams go rather quickly so it should be enough time for his mind to process our first visit. After that though I will need a break.”
It was late, almost seven, when he finally got home after dropping off the equipment at the school. He still had to take the haul truck back to the yard and secure it for the night, make sure the shop was locked up and even still had to make sure all the fence gates were locked before he went home for the day. Thankfully it only takes a few minutes to get back home.
“I need a shower bad.” He heads to the bathroom, turns on the shower water and gets ready for it while waiting for the water to heat up. Once the water is ready he steps in and just lets the water flow over him. Occasionally throughout the day he would get a flash of an image, “Was I really there?” He finishes his shower, puts a towel around his waist and opens the bathroom door.
Then he sees her there standing before him, this time in his house, “It’s you again.” He just drops his hand to his side, “So I didn’t imagine it this morning did I?”
She shakes her head speaking softly and gently, “No, I and my friend was there.” She wanted him to remember everything instantly but she knows that she must take it slow.
“It’s hard for me to believe,” he says and heads for the living room taking a seat on the couch. “I’m here right now talking to a pony, a pegasus pony at that, named Fluttershy in my house.”
Fluttershy follows him stopping in front of him, “It was all real. What you see in your mind is memories that are returning.”
“Returning?” He can’t believe his ears, “Returning,” he says just to hear him say it again. “Why do I smell peaches whenever you are near me? I smell it even now. During the day I had more images…” he looks to her questionably, “Wrench Heart?”
“Yes,” Fluttershy says softly.
“I don’t understand,” he said as his mind tries to process the sudden memories that are beginning to come forward into his mind.
“Look at me,” she says gently.
He does so looking into her eyes.
“Just let it come. You will understand, trust me. Now I want you to do something for me and close your eyes.”
He does so not sure what to expect.
“Now, let whatever comes to mind come.”
He does so, “I see a meadow of flowers. Peaceful. I’m lying there. Then I see you coming up to me. I feel so glad to see you and…whoa.” He starts to lean forward as his mind remembers that first deep kiss.
She instantly knows what he’s remembering and comes forward letting him lean on her with his head on her back. One of her wings opens and lays it on his head rubbing softly.
He hears her voice in his head and he repeats it, “You make my days bright,” he also hears her voice chime in as they say it in unison, “the days worth singing until the light fades.” Pausing as his mind goes through it until he hears his own voice in his head and again saying it, “You have been by my side, you give me a strength…Claim me and take me.” He lifts his head as the feeling of the dream flows through him.
She feels the connection grow once more and her joy flows into him again from her.
What he feels is indescribable, “This feeling,” he says raising up.
She turns to him, “It’s out connection. A connection that just us two share. It was that night that we connected. I can feel what you feel for me and you can feel what I feel for you.”
He takes a deep breath letting it out slowly, “Whoa.” Her love flows over him again and he can feel what he felt for her.
“Close your eyes and concentrate on it, feel it and let it guide you. Do you want to remember more?”
“Yes, I do.” He closes his eyes again and tries to focus on the connection that she told him about. The connection, yes he does feel it now, not strong but there. Then horrible memories come to mind, Aurora flowing quickly through the memories into when she first entered his dream. “Aurora, the evil that tried to take me over. No…not try but…”
“Look at me Wrenchy, look at me,” she commands him knowing where his mind if going, the barn.
He does so as the memories of and up to that night in the barn comes flooding his mind, “She…did…I didn’t want her…”
She can tell he’s starting to lose it again, “Look at me Wrenchy, don’t look away from me and concentrate on me and use my strength to get passed it.”
“She didn’t stop…wouldn’t stop,” tears starting to flow from his eyes as his mind processes the memories of that night at the barn and everything up to that point. “Determined to have me…a slave,” he shutters rubs his arms with his hands as if trying to swat flies away, “I want…wanted her off of me…GET OFF.”
Using her hoof she raises it up and looks into his eyes, “Remember Wrenchy you used my strength to beat her down remember, remember.”
He slowly calms down as the memory continues through him, “Darkness, cold…heard you call to me.” His breathing slowly returns to normal, “The others…safe?”
Fluttershy seems to nod as he looks behind her and sees five other ponies: rainbow colored, pink, white, purple, and orange.
“We’re fine sugar cube,” Applejack says to him, “Remember, you beat her down that night and kicked a whole in the barn wall.”
His mind flashes to the next morning where he tickled him and he laughs in response, “You…tickled me…” he laughs, “the next morning.” They all move in front of him standing beside one another beside Fluttershy, “Oh…she just…wouldn’t stop…” he starts to rock a little in the chair with his arms crossed.
“Let it go darling,” he hears the white one say and looks to her welling up again. “Rar…Rarity.”
“That’s me.”
He takes a look at the others through the tears and his eyes rests on the pink one, “You provided the party…that night…Pinkie…Pinkie Pie.”
“Yep, and she crashed it…that witch.”
He shakes his head remembering, “I don’t want her touching me.” His body shakes as he rubs himself with his hands again, “She wouldn’t…stop touching. It’s not over…she’ll return.” His eyes rests on Twilight, “You…helped…Twilight. Helped me control the level of magic.”
Twilight nods, “Yes. We’re here to help you through this.”
“Our friend,” Rainbow Dash touches a hoof to his shoulder.
He looks to the blue one, “Promise…Rainbow…Rainbow…Dash.”
“That’s right Wrenchy,” Rainbow says with a smile.
He feels a sudden wave of love and warmth flowing into him and he looks to Fluttershy. He calms down again feeling her, “Our connection. The next morning…you fed me a…a peach,” he says the last word softly realizing that is where the smell came from, “that’s where the peach smell came from, that morning.”
“Yes,” she says smiling.
His eyes soften as he remembers how she teased him that morning, “Oh you are good.” He then looks to Applejack with an embarrassed face, “You had to swat me a few times with that hat in order to snap me out of it.”
Applejack nudges Fluttershy playfully, “Yeah she got you good that morning.”
“Then at lunch,” he laughs softly.
“Yeah, got myself and thieving varmint I did.”
He looks to Rarity, “Then the fitting.”
“Oh yes darling and it went so well.”
The memories are coming quicker with the connection between Fluttershy and John/Wrenchy secure again. “It’s all…just…I can’t seem to believe it and take it in and yet…it’s so real.”
Fluttershy looks to them, “Stay here with us.”
“You sure?” Twilight asks.
“Yes, he needs all of us to get through all these memories.” In order to help it along Fluttershy uses her hoof to guide his head to her and she starts humming the tune of that night.
When he hears that tune his mind snaps to her room and the fire that she ignited in him and he closes his eyes. Slowly leaning forward guided by her hoof he rests his head next to hers, “That tune.”
She shushes him quietly, “Just let it flow my love.” She hums as the memory flows through his mind, “I claimed you as mine.” His breathing slows as she feels it against her, slowing, deepening as the passion from that night flows through them again. His head rubs gently against hers and she follows against his, “Your eyes, your lips, and every bit of you I claimed as mine.”
Moving into a hug she lets him embrace her wrapping his arms around her. She hums again and when she feels his grip on her tighten she knows that he is riding the waves of passion of that night. “You are my wild stallion Wrenchy,” she says softly.
Applejack meanwhile takes her hat and fans herself and Rarity moves beside her to catch some of the breeze.
Twilight leans over to Pinkie Pie and Rainbow, “That must be how she protected him from Aurora’s advances. She used that special connection of theirs to cut him off from her.”
Pinkie Pie disappears for one second then comes back with a big fan and turns it on high as their hair is blows sideways.
“That was why they were laughing,” Rainbow says catching on.
He leans back as the memories of that morning flow through his mind and he can’t help but blush.
Rarity just smiles, “I see why you two were late.”
Everyone laughed.
“I’m your Wrench Heart,” he says to her with his mind clearing as the rest of it comes quickly, “I remember that night at Twilight’s castle.” He winces and grabs one arm, “Darn it.”
The scene suddenly changes to that field of flowers and he stands before them as he looked in the suit with his hair styled. He takes a deep breath and letting it out slowly he looks upon the love of his life Fluttershy, “Your stallion is back.”
Fluttershy rushes him in a kiss that beats them all then hugs him crying with joy, “Oh my Wrenchy I love you so much.”
He looks to the other five as they have tears in their eyes and raises a hoof in their direction and they join in the hug, “I love you all my friends.”
Celestia watches as Luna slowly lays down and falls asleep. The doctor comes up and two nurses using their magic moves her onto a bed.
Wrenchy opens his eyes to see Fluttershy laying on a bed up against his with her hoof around him. Not a dry eye in the place, as even Celestia had a few tears flowing. His voice is soft but filled with pure joy, “We have some planning to do.”
The all cheered and hugged but Wrenchy cautioned with a couple of, “gentle, gentle” while they all hugged and cried together. Soon the cheers turned to discussion about the upcoming wedding.
“I have an idea my dear,” he says to Fluttershy, “Why don’t we have it at night in the garden at Twilight’s castle?”
“Oh Wrenchy,” Fluttershy coos in joy, “that would be just perfect.”
“You’ll get to design the garden just so and it gives me a couple of ideas.” He looks to Celestia, “Your highness?”
“Yes?”
“I have an idea, but I would need Philomena is that ok?”
“Of course it is.” Celestia smiles wiping away a tear, “Anything you need my little ponies. I’ll let you plan, just let me know.”
Wrenchy was walking, slowly and a little painfully but walking. He didn’t care though, he was the luckiest pony to ever live. They were on their way to Twilight’s castle taking it slow and just enjoying the beautiful day as they walked it together.
“So that is a ‘walking cast’?” Fluttershy asks
“Yeah,” He says, “it’s an invention from the human world. When I put my weight on the cast it is strong enough to hold my weight so I can walk while still keeping the leg immobilized to heal. This way I don’t have to worry about crutches.”
“That’s smart considering you can’t fly until your ribs heal enough for sustained flight.”
“I’ll get there my love. I’ll get there. I’ve done all I could do from the bed.”
“You’re not going to tell me are you?” Fluttershy asked, again.
“Nope,” smiles loving that he can tease her, “no, my present will be just before our dance and it won’t be a secret if I tell you now would it?”
She just laughs and shakes her head.
For the next month the wedding preparations were under full swing. The doctor said his chest would be healed enough for a dance in the air for just long enough for his song to complete. In order for his plan for the wedding to work many things had to be in place. Over the next month he spend his time planning for it, looking over how the garden was coming along, which was just beautiful.
The same roles the girls for the wedding of Shining Armor and Princess Cadence they had here. Flowers bloomed all around the castle garden just perfect for the wedding, his preparations for his present was made and set, but the hardest was having the band learn the song that he wanted. All was set and ready.
Princess Luna had raised the moon just right as the light of the moon was shining down the aisle that Fluttershy would take to be at his side. On each side of the isle the candles were lit and special flowers that only bloomed in the moonlight spread their pedals wide in full bloom.
By his side as his best was Discord and Spike with Discord actually standing proudly in a tuxedo of all things. They had an agreement between them. He didn’t break her heart and Discord wouldn’t turn him into an ameba and toss him into another dimension. It was fair to him he thought.
The bridesmaids of Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie came up to stand at their positions. Then came the three Crusaders in their pretty little dresses passing out the flowers on the red carpet. His heart skips as the birds start singing for Fluttershy’s cue and she starts down the aisle.
How beautiful of an image did she have as aisle by aisle the crowd turned to her and stood. Then silence falls as she takes her place beside him then they turn to face Princess Celestia.
“Mares and Gentleponies, we are gathered here today to marry Fluttershy and Wrench Heart in marriage. Fluttershy, Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack have taught us many lessons in the magic of friendship. Some of the best lessons come out of their recent experience. When to trust others, to stand by those who are suffering and if need be suffer with them, and the courage to do what is right. But what I may ask is the base of friendship? What makes it so powerful? Love and there are two kinds. First is the kind which binds true friends together as those up here tonight. Second is the deeper love which we wed here tonight between these two.
Do you, Wrench Heart take Fluttershy as your beloved mare?”
“I do.”
“Do you Fluttershy take Wrench Heart to be your beloved stallion?”
“I do.”
“The rings please.”
Discord presented the rings and she placed them around their necks, the rings are on chains.
“It is my privilege and honor to now pronounce you mare and stallion.”
Cheers all around as Fluttershy and Wrench Heart go down the aisle heading for the dance area where the refreshments are, but he had a surprise. Philomena flies up and lands on his back riding him down the aisle to the reception area.
The reception area was beautiful. A wide open area that had a flowery hedge around it in a circle with four openings evenly spaced. In front of the hedges were lanterns on posts with a special glass that is like a prism. In the center was the dance floor. A rather good size with a floor of marble polished to perfection. Above the dance floor was five lanterns spread out like the five dots on dice with the same prism glass.
Soon everyone came and he ushered Fluttershy where he wanted her in the middle of the dance floor, “Now stay here love.”
“Is this it?”
“Yeah, you will love it trust me,” he says leaving her there walking over close to where they entered, then looking at the crowd as they finish gathering, “Can I have your attention please? I know that this might be a bit unusual, but I can’t help but say a few things then present a song to my beautiful beloved.”
Philomena got down from his back and onto the garden ground. She was in her molting stage and a lot of the feathers were gone. Celestia still couldn’t understand why he said that it was perfect timing but he knew she would understand very shortly.
When he knew he had everyone’s attention he began, “When I was in the human world my life was kind of dull and predictable. I had a career and money everything they said that I should be happy, but I was empty inside.” Philomena walks around molting a feather by feather as he speaks, “Then one day I was brought here by evil magic.” Philomena squawks slightly and lays down, “Not knowing who I was, what I was or where I was I didn’t know what to do.” Philomena walks around as if dazed, “Then I met Fluttershy and her friends and they set me on the path which has lead me to this night. That path was a difficult one though.” Philomena seems to walk as if under strain, “The final fight was hard but at the end we defeated the evil but at a terrible cost and it was as if our lives turned to ashes.”
Philomena pretends to fight something then bursts into flames turning to ashes, “We have a saying in the human world. Love will always find a way.” He lowers his head to Philomena’s ashes, “You know what is so beautiful about the love behind friendship? It’s when all things are dark and gloomy and it seems all is lost. All it takes is a single spark.” Philomena’s ashes puts out a single candle flame, “The smallest of flames appear. Though small in size it has the power to grow, so when it is fanned,” he raises up and lifting up on hoof in the air and Philomena bursts out of the ashes burning brightly lighting up the area, “it burns bright giving hope to those who need it.” He keeps his good hoof extended, as the other is still in the cast, and Philomena lands there, “Tonight under this beautiful moon thanks to our own Princess Luna I present to you my song of devotion to my beautiful beloved.” Philomena flies to the lantern above Fluttershy and ignites a fire above it so different colored lights shine upon her. Not brightly but dim accents then flies over to the band as their cue to start playing. Landing next to Celestia as her duty ends.
Walking up to Fluttershy he whispers, “Just like we practiced and just follow my lead.”
“I will follow you anywhere my wild stallion.”
As the music begins the waltz they flap their wings in time with the beat and Wrench Heart’s baritone voice fills the area. Even though the song “Oh How We Danced” was meant for future weddings, in this world they didn’t know that. So, he changed it from past tense to present tense. Loving the song so much and it just seemed to fit perfectly here, plus it gives Fluttershy the surprise of hearing him sing. In the human world he was in a choir since he was a boy so singing comes naturally to him.
“Oh, how we dance on the night we are wed
We vow our true love, though a word isn’t said
The world is in bloom, there are stars in the skies
Except for the few that are there in your eyes”
As they dance in time with the music and his voice singing in joy and love, Celestia leans near her nephew and whispers, “If you don’t learn something from this I will send you to the moon.”
Her nephew seems to gulp as Luna leans over and whispers, “It’s no fun, trust me.”
“Dear, as I hold you so close in my arms
The birds are singing a hymn to your charms.”
During this portion he plans their dance so the pass by her birds and waves one hoof as cue for them to tweet in time with the music.
“Two hearts gently beating, are murmuring low
‘My Darling, I love you so”
There isn’t a dry eye in the garden as he starts the second verse and for the first time that anyone could remember, Vinyl Scratch takes off her headphones.
“The night seems to fade into blossoming dawn
The sun shines anew but our dance lingers on
Could-we always live this sweet moment sublime
We’d find that our love is unaltered by time.
Dear, as I hold you so close in my arms
The birds are singing a hymn to your charms
Two heart gently beating, are murmuring low”
He slowly lowers them to the ground and takes her head in his one good hoof, “My Darling, I love you so.”
He almost lost it when he sees a quite a few married stallions get a hoof to their ribs, but he maintains complete composure and bows to his beloved.
Her heart just can’t seem to contain how she feels and gives him a long big kiss.
Clapping of hooves together and the sniffles of the crying is heard as the first song comes to an end. A crowd just starts to form on the dance floor as the second dance begins.
“I think Discord asked for the second dance,” he says turning as Discord appears tuxedo and all letting him dance with Fluttershy. Then he turns and sees little Sweetie Belle the first in line for the groom for the second dance. He bows to the little filly and enjoys his second as the music begins again, but with a different tune of course.
For the upbeat portion Fluttershy asked Shining armor, Cadence, and Twilight if they could sing the same song for her wedding. Cadence said it would be alright and nods to Scratch as she starts the music. Fluttershy and the others happy to hear Twilight sing that song again as Wrench Heart enjoys hearing it for the first time.
As the party and dancing went on everyone was having fun between dancing and the food. He actually had a couple of minutes with Luna and Celestia. “Thank you Princes Luna for such a lovely night, it worked out perfectly and thank you for all your help through this.”
“You’re welcome Wrench Heart.”
Philomena flies over landing on his back near his head and uses her beak to nuzzle him.
“Thank you so much Philomena, you were just beautiful tonight.”
“I think she had a good time doing it,” Celestia laughs softly.
Philomena coos in agreement.
“Well I heard that she had a penchant for being mischievous so I’d figure to put it to good use.”
Soon came the time to throw the bouquet and leave for the night. Wrenchy and Fluttershy stood by the carriage while Twilight and the others came up to them giving hugs.
“I can’t thank you all enough,” he said to them, “All of you have given me so much.”
“Oh you are quite welcome darling,” Rarity says with a few tears in her eyes, “now go and have a good time.”
“Not too much though,” Applejack pipes up, “I’ll need your help in the field when you get back.”
“Oh I don’t know Applejack,” Fluttershy looks to him with a girlish grin, “I think he might be too tired.”
The girls couldn’t help but laugh and hoot with Applejack hitting Wrenchy playfully with her hat seeing him blush. With that Fluttershy throws the bouquet, girls were stumbling over themselves trying to get it. As it nears the group from the center of the crowd suddenly Scootaloo appears flying upward and catching it then landing beside Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom. “It worked Crusaders.” They give themselves hoof bumps and cheers.
Taking one last look back they enter the carriage, close the door for a great honeymoon to return to a bright future in Ponyville exploring their love and the magic of friendship.
