Equestria's Corruption

Dennis' POV------------------------------------

Dennis was still riding high on his breakthrough and defeat of the Eye of Cthulhu. and it seemed the rest of the main 6 were too. Dennis had wanted to personally tell them the same night, but Twilight had pointed out that most likely all of them were asleep and that it could wait until the next day. The next day Dennis woke up and rummaged through his saddle bag until he found his usual breakfast; a Bottled Water and some Mushroom Stew.

He was staying at Twilight's house as he did not have a job and by extension, no house of his own. There was always something weird about his pack, or in this case his saddlebag. Anything put inside would shrink down to no larger than your average bar of soap, something Twilight found out when he pulled out his bed. At first they thought he was making some kind of joke and laughed but stopped when he set the miniature model of his wood bed down on the floor and it grew to a full size bed, just his size, and when he pulled his saddlebag over a corner, it shrank down again and fit easily inside his bag, along with his sword.

He did not want to be a burden in any way and only ate what was inside his bag, which was his water and mushroom stew. Twilight came down a few minutes after and looked at what he was eating.

"Don't you ever get tired of that?" she asked, fixing herself a sandwich.

"Not really, its good stew," he simply replied, finishing the last of his stew and putting the bowl back into the bag. Twilight looked at him again and gasped. "What, did the potion backfire, do I have an extra horn or something?" he asked, half joking but half genuinely worried as he had not looked at himself prior and was so tired, probably couldn't tell the difference if he DID have an extra horn.

"No, you got your cutie mark though!" she exclaimed, a small smile on her face.

"My what?" he asked, looking at his flanks. Indeed he did have a cutie mark, It was a picture of a Colbat Shield with a golden sword going vertically through the middle. "Cool but what the heck is a cutie mark?" he asked.

"Its supposed to tell you what your special talent is," Twilight explained. "Hey listen Dennis I want to ask you some questions, but I want the rest of my friends here so you don't have to answer the same questions again okay?" she asked. Dennis contemplated this for a few seconds. He really didn't want to bring up bad memories, but on the other hand these mares saved his life, the least he could do is be honest with them.

"Alright, but you need to answer my question first, how and why did you save me so fast?" He asked.

"Well when we got out of the Everfree forest I sent a letter to the princess. She immediately came to where we were and got us to where you were, good thing you kept Ocram occupied or else we might have been too late," she said. "As for why, well you were the only one who knew enough about the Corruption to help us, and plus we couldn't just let you die out there!" she exclaimed.

"Oh," Dennis said lamely. After all of Twilight's friends showed up and had a seat, Dennis cleared his throat.

"Okay then fire away," he said. Twilight spoke up first.

"How did you get here?" she asked. Good. an easy question.

"Well this is only my theory, but what I think happened is my Magic Mirror got supercharged. My mirror is supposed to send me back to where my home is whenever I look into it, so by theory increasing it's power could increase it's range from my house to even another dimension or planet," he said. Applejack asked next,

"We all heard him say somethin' about 'heroes' what was that all about?" Okay. Harder but still okay to answer.

"Heroes are people in my world who fight and kill monsters for coins, the currency in our world. They also cleanse Corruption and accompany less capable fighters in caves while exploring," he said, almost sounding like a dictionary.

"Y-you kill m-monsters?" Fluttershy squeaked a look of worry and fear in her eyes. Dennis sighed, another even harder still question.

"I do it to keep other people safe, I would never hurt an innocent living being," he said, and Fluttershy seemed to relax some.

"Who is 'the Guide' you mentioned him once or twice," Twilight asked. Wary of Dennis' last outburst when she asked. Dennis wanted to run out of the tree library and hide, but he steeled himself as he prepared and answer.

"The Guide, or as he was known Garrett was my friend and mentor back in Terraria," he started, taking a sip of his water then continuing. "He knew a lot about the world of Terraria and it's creatures, and you could always count on him to help you when you were stuck. He was my best friend, and the only one I had," he said looking down at the floor.

"Y'all are talkin' like he's, well..." Applejack said, not daring to finish the sentence. Dennis sighed once more and went on.

"When most ponies say they've been through hell and back, they mean it as an expression, I don't," he said, completely serious. "Did deep enough and you'll find a land called the Underworld, or, as heroes refer to it, Hell," Dennis paused to make sure everypony was following this and continued. "Long story short, there are Demons who carry voodoo dolls of the guide and if one should fall in lava, the Wall of Flesh is awakened, a powerful monster. I don't know how this happens I don't know why this happens, all I know is when I shot that Demon, I killed my best friend," he said, feeling tears well up in his eyes. After he got back from killing the Wall of Flesh, all he found was Garrett's charred body. He never spoke of it again and was, really never the same after. Nopony responded for a few seconds until Fluttershy finally spoke up,

"Im so sorry," was all she said. Dennis was always emotional during any thought of Garrett and anger flared through his body

"Don't pity me," he spat venom in his voice, "I killed my friend," Fluttershy took a confused expression on her face before replacing it with hurt.

"hey, she was just trying to help!" Rainbow Dash yelled, anger in her eyes.

"Rainbow," Applejack started, but Dennis interrupted her,

"No, Applejack let her finish," he said standing up, fire in his eyes, body language just begging her to say something. Rainbow Dash stood up as well. "Maybe you should just leave, now that we know the secret to reverting the Corruption we don't need you, and I'm not going to let some bully be on our team!"

"Well I helped you fight something that would have shat you out dead, helped you gather information on ANOTHER thing that would have shat you out dead, and got my leg cut off by something that, once again WOULD HAVE SHAT YOU OUT DEAD!" he yelled stepping forward.

"You yelled at somepony who was just trying to help you for NO REASON and you think i'm not going to defend her!?" Rainbow asked stepping forward too.

"Well excuse me for getting a LITTLE emotional when I told you in excruciating detail my darkest hour!" he retorted one again taking a step forward. Dennis knew he was baiting and taking bait, but the anger that fueled him insisted he keep this going.

"That still gives you no excuse!" she yelled.  Rainbow got into an offensive stance and everypony gasped but wasn't able to move. Nopony noticed Fluttershy shaking slightly, not from fear but from rage. Rainbow Dash was about to rush at him when a loud voice cut through the air,

"STOP IT!" Everypony turned to stare at Fluttershy, shaking violently from rage at watching two friends fight. "Shame on you both!" she yelled. she asked. Dennis couldn't explain how, but the stare Fluttershy was giving him made him want to run and hide, yet he couldn't break away. It was odd, the sensation was like fear, only not a fear of getting killed, he felt a very milder version when Katie, the nurse would tell him off whenever he came in half digested and warned him to be more careful. "Things have gotten way out of hoof!" she continued, the volume of her voice lessening somewhat. "I know you both don't hate each other and you shouldn't be fighting each other!" she reasoned. Dennis took a deep breath and gathered his emotions. He looked at Rainbow Dash, Mumbled

"Sorry," and quickly left before he could do anything else.