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Quickfic - Soarin' Night Out (3/3) [Grimdark]
07/06/11(Wed)00:10 No.27440592>>27440136
After the things I had seen, the things I knew, I couldn't return to Canterlot even if I hadn't been crippled. I'd see conspiracies behind every pillar and statue. The worst thing is, half would be real, now that I knew what to look for.
So I got medically discharged, took my pension and medal, and settled down in Ponyville. I did my best not to disrupt Celestia's plans, knowing what she might do to me. I courted Rainbow Dash; rather, she courted me, and I acquiesced. We were married in autumn 1001.
But then the events started. Certain things that were no accidents, but only I saw the truth behind them. The Elements were being set up, over and over again.
They were being forged like a weapon, for some sinister purpose.
I had to stop it. I owed Rainbow Dash that much.
The final event was the day they were called to Canterlot to put testimony forth against Princess Luna herself, a staged trial. I crashed the party; I used the dead weight of my crippled stallion body, no good for breeding and no good for fighting.
I broke the neck of Celestia herself.
As we lay there, her eyes glazing over, I saw her smile, I heard her laugh croak in the back of her throat. I knew in that terrible moment, as flames consumed her body, as she was reborn in fire, as she called out, "TO WAR!" that it had all been her.
It had always been her. |