A/N: This takes place after Celestia says no to Zach's request to come to Equestria...This isn't the true ending remember that.

WARNING:Contains material that will strike you in the heart and possibly make you feel sympathy and SHED TEARS

On with the story

The minute Celestia said no, my heart shattered. I felt a massive heart ache.I began to plead.

"Please let me go to Equestria. I must...."I felt tears well in up my eyes.

"You are not native to Equestria and therefore shall stay here." Princess Celestia said with a stern voice. I collapsed to me knees, tears falling as I hung my head in depression.

Twilight had tears freely flowing down my eyes as she came up to me,"Zach...we must part now. I don't want to, but I have to. Just never forget me...That's all I ask of you.."Twilight said softly sniffling.

I shot up and hugged her tight. I felt as that as long as I had a hold on her she would never leave me. She wrapped her hooves around me tight. Our tears were falling upon each others shoulders.

"Twilight, we must be going now. The elements are waiting."Celestia called.

"Okay..." she answered then put her hooves upon my face and pointed it to her,"I won't forget you, Zach. I know you won't forget me either. And for what it's worth, I l-love..."Twilight choked up as her tears fell a little faster and she had trouble breathing because of the sniffling. Instead she just leaned in and gave me a peck on my tear soaked cheek. She walked next to Celestia staring back at me.

"I'm sorry..."she apologized. Her horn glowed a bright gold and a portal formed below them. The two fell in.

I scrambled over, tears still streaming. I looked down the portal before it closed. At the end of the long, rainbow streaked, bright tunnel I saw Princess Celestia and Twilight with five other ponies. Twilight still had tears flowing down her face as she stared up at me through the portal. Five other ponies looked very concerned as they looked up at the portal and saw me crying. Just before the portal closed, three tears from me fell into it. One had made contact with the floor in front of Twilight. The other two had landed on Twilight, one in her mane and the other on her nose. The portal closed and that was the last time I saw Twilight, the only being keeping me from complete breakdown.

I stayed there curled up on the floor beating it with my fist shouting,"Damn, Damn, Damn! Why?! Why did she have to leave me?"while I sobbed.

I heard a neighbor in the apartment complex knock on my door and speak up in a guy voice,"Hey, you alright in there?You don't sound so goo-"I cut him off.

"Go away!"I shouted as I sobbed. I didn't hear any knocks after that.

I cried for a whole hour remembering all the fun times I had with Twilight. I stood and wiped away my tears.I went to the phone and dialed my work place.

"This is Cheesy Camp, delivery or pickup?" a familiar voice of one of my co-workers answered. I worked at a pizza place as a server for half of the small business.

"This is Zach Butchfield. Give me to our boss, Greg" I answered with a dead emotion and my voice filled with dread and despair.

"Zach, you don't sound too good.But, fine." Greg replied.

"What is your reason for calling, Zach?" my boss answered.

"Can I have sometime off for a month or two?" I asked with the same voice.

"For what?" he asked.

"I lost someone important to me and I need some time..." I answered.

"Understandable...You can take the month off. You deserve it anyway after working so hard the past few with all the overtime." my boss was always understanding. He did sound worried for me.

"Thank you..."I hung up then called Mark.

"What's up, dude?"he asked.

"She's gone..."I answered feeling tears start in the corner of my eyes.

"Who is?" Mark asked.

"Twilight...." I answered in the same manner of voice that I had been using.

"What do you mean?Did she die?Did she run away or get lost?Did she go back to Equestria?"Mark sounded extremely concerned.

"She went back to...Equestria....without me." I answered and the tears broke over and flowed down my face.

"Sorry, for the loss man.I know she meant a lot to you."Mark said.

"She meant more than a lot....She meant everything...." I said and Mark was dead quiet after a silence,"I loved her....I knew she loved me as well....but...why did she have to leave..."

"She was important to Equestria you know...so she had to."Mark answered.

"Bye, Mark..."I hung up before he finished saying goodbye.

I stood there for the next two hours slowly crying thinking of nothing, but Twilight. A knock on the door came.I walked over to it and opened it up. Standing in front of me was Mark, Jeff, and Dean. My tears had still kept falling.

"Mark...you were right...He took this horribly."Dean said as they all came in and I shut the door.

We all walked into the living room. Jeff was first to speak.

"Damn, man. What happened?" Jeff asked.

"And where's Twilight?" Dean asked.

Tears flew down my face in a higher quantity as I heard her name and remembered when she left.."You..d-didn't tell them...."I asked mark as I sniffled and choked on words.

"Nope..."Mark answered and then continued,"Guys, Twilight is gone....She went back to Equestria."

"Sorry for you loss, Zach." Dean said.

"Yea...it must of been hard saying goodbye." Jeff chimed in.

"How the hell would you know?!You didn't lose someone you loved like I loved Twilight..."I broke out to Jeff glaring at him while tears slowly ran down my cheeks.

"You have to get over it and move on, Zach. You can't stop now." Dean offered advice.

"To hell with you!You don't know how hard it is...and you still have your girlfriend..."I shouted at him.

"Calm down, man.We'll be going now." Mark said and stood.

"But we ne-" Jeff was cut off.

"Come on, guys." Mark said firmly. He always knew the best for me.

They didn't argue but just left. I locked the door after they left. I went to my bedroom and laid down.

Two weeks went by and all I would do is eat, drink, use the bathroom if needed, and sleep. I wouldn't do a damn thing but sleep as I cried slowly while I laid on my bed. I had run out of food and bills were due. I sent the check for the next payment and sealed it within envelopes before I headed outside and put it in the mailbox. I then went inside. I showered, dried, and changed into new clothes. I walked outside and got in my car. I drove to the nearest grocery store.

As I arrived I got out and retrieved a shopping cart inside the store. I grabbed the usual stuff.I went to go get Twilight's favorite human food, fries. I remembered how much she liked them whenever I would bake a batch.I stopped there and rested my head on the shopping cart handle. I let the tears form and fall from my face. I felt a hand on my back.

"Sir, is everything alright?" a store worker asked me.

"Just...peachy..." I said between sniffles.

"Sir....you should probably go check out your items and go home now..." he could see through the lie.

I lifted my head a bit to see where I was going. I went to get a bag of frozen fries, crinkle cut. I then checked out and paid using my food stamps. I loaded the food items into my car trunk and got in. I laid my head upon the steering wheel and cried my heart out once more.

"Twilight!Come back to me...please....just come back..."I shouted and my voice went down in lower tone as I continued mumbling.

After an hour of crying I drove home and brought my groceries inside my apartment and put them away. I only ate an apple then before returning to my room. I laid down on my bed staring at the ceiling. Tears slowly fell. I opened up my dresser that sat next to the bed. I pulled out a thick book and blew off a little dust that had been resting on it. I opened it up and there was photos of me and my family. I remembered the car accident and the funeral. I grieved for my parents then, but didn't cry. I kept flipping through and saw pictures of me with my friends, the good old days. I flipped through more and saw pictures of when me, my friends, my parents, and Twilight were outside. I saw a picture of me sitting on a tree branch above Jeff about to jump down on him. I smiled at it. I then came across a picture of me fighting my dad. I wished he was still here. I flipped the page and saw me fighting Twilight. I smiled at how much fun we were having that night. I skipped over a few pages and stopped as I came across a picture that was special to me...It was Twilight with me. I had an arm around her and she a hoof around me as my other arm was extended out holding the camera. We were both smiling and Twilight had a small blush visible through her soft coat. I touched the picture my finger laying on Twilight's cheek of the big picture.

"I love you too...Twilight...." I felt tears falling down my cheeks again and I put the photo album up,"I miss you so much."

I ate some fries that night with water and nothing else. I cried my self to sleep like the past two weeks.

While I slept I dreamed. I was on a tiny island alone, looking through my own eyes. I turned around and saw a purple unicorn that I knew was Twilight. I called out to her and she turned to me. We ran to each other and hugged tight crying like never before,"I missed you so much, Twilight..."I said in the dream. She said the same thing back. We stayed there, hugging each other tightly and crying tears of joy. The island suddenly split in two and drifted apart. Twilight was left on the other side. We reached out to each other, but we couldn't grab the other. We both started crying tears of sadness hard. The island she was on was far away and we were shouting to each other. Eventually she couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear her. We could only see each other as a spec waving to each other. After a while of still drifting the part of the island she was on disappeared and I was left alone.

I jolted awake and shouted,"Twilight!"I then looked over to my clock and saw it was 2:13PM. I got up and made a batch of fries and drank some water as I ate them. I walked over to the phone and picked it up. I dialed my work again.

"Cheesy Camp, delivery or pickup?"a different voice answered, probably a new employee.

"Let me speak with the boss. I am an employee." I said depressed. I heard no voice after.

"Hello?" I heard my boss's voice.

"It's me, Zach."

"Why did you call?I thought you would be to depressed to do anything."

"I called to tell you...I quit....bye..."I said with grief in my tone. I hung up and called Mark.

"Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now. Leave a message." a beep came after his voice mail.

"Goodbye, Mark. You were always such a good friend. See you when I see you..."I left the message and put the phone down.

I headed outside and dug a small hole. I then went back into my apartment and put the family sword handle into the hole. The blade stuck up and pointed to the sky. The hole was next to the apartment roof. I buried the handle in the hole.I then went inside and donned my armor. I wrote a note and clutched it in my hands. I ran up the stairs to the top of them and went outside the roof access. I stared over the edge at the Templar sword that pointed up to me.I then looked at the matching set of armor I was wearing. I waited and waited. I saw Mark's car drive up the apartment road and stopped in front of mine.

"I am coming home...Mom...Dad....see you soon..."I said quietly. I jumped off the roof and fell down to the earth. The sword pierced my armor. I knew it would. My heart was also pierced just as it was before when I lost Twilight. I clutched the note.

"ZACH!" Mark shouted as he ran to me seeing me impaled upon my family sword.

I smiled, looking to Mark who crouched to see my face. He looked very concerned and shocked at the fact that I was smiling.

"Why, Zach?Why did you do this to yourself?" he asked me and I still smiled.

"The note..." I said with pain and happiness in my voice.I slowly moved my arm and showed it to him,"read...it..."I continued and looked down to the ground,"I am coming to see you now....Dad...Mom....and especially you..Twilight." I let out my last breath as I died. I heard other footsteps coming this way.

The note stated I wanted a private funeral and to be buried wearing the armor and holding the sword over my chest. That I wanted each one of my friends to put something in. Mark put in the photo of Twilight I looked at the one night. Dean put in my laptop so I could have my thoughts and ideas wherever I went. Jeff put on top of the grave when I had been buried in the casket a story of my life that he nailed into the cross above the grave. They buried me under the tree in the house I grew up in with my mom and dad. It was where I first saw Twilight. They all said their goodbyes, but Mark stayed longer.

"I hope that you get to see your Mom...and your Dad and...the one who meant the most to you...Twilight..."Mark said as he cried he bowed his head and prayed silently before he opened my eyes and looked at my cross gravestone,"Have a good afterlife....Zach....I'll never forget you or Twilight..." He walked away with tears in his eyes that didn't fall. He said goodbye to the family that owned the house at that time and said to take care of me and my grave.

From the time I died I only got to say hello to my parents and reunite with their souls before something pulled me away. I couldn't see a thing in my afterlife....for a very long time...

--------------In Equestria------------

Twilight was in ruins after losing Zach. Her friends would try to cheer her up, but they did no good. Spike couldn't cheer her up either. Princess Celestia came by to try to cheer her up.

A knock came at the door and Twilight was on the couch crying, willing to do anything to see Zach,"Come in..." Twilight said in a dead tone.

The door opened and Princess Celestia walked in and stood in front of Twilight,"My faithful student, cheer up. It had to be done for Equestria. I know you miss him but you must continue." Celestia said.

"You don't need to try to cheer me up. You were the one who wouldn't let him into Equestria. You caused all this." Twilight said between sniffles.

"I'm sorry for that, Twilight Sparkle. I truly am, but he couldn't come here it would disrupt Equestria." Celestia stated facts.

"Just go, Princess....I want to be alone now...." Twilight said.

Princess Celestia obliged and left, going back to Canterlot. That night Twilight had a dream. It was the exact same as Zach's, but she was seeing through her own eyes and wasn't in her matured adult body, but rather her young one which she had when she saw Zach for the first time.

From the day Twilight was separated from Zach she stayed in her library everyday and sent spike to do all her errands. She didn't make schedules. She didn't study. She didn't even write letters to Princess Celestia. When her abilities were called upon she would go and do what is necessary, but she didn't do anything more. The other elements would come and visit her constantly only to be sent away by Twilight. Twilight was never the same before. She didn't want to live any more. She still did love the Princesses and her friends, but she was always depressed. She couldn't stop thinking about Zach. She stayed like that for the next 64 years. She was still in Ponyville Library. Spike had grown into a teenage dragon and left Twilight. He came back to visit ever one in a while. All the rest of Twilight's friends got old as did Twilight. Applejack was first to die. They held her funeral at Canterlot Castle in the graveyard there that was filled with tombs and graves that housed previous heroes of Equestria. Twilight was secretly waiting for herself or one of the others to die. Without Applejack the Elements of Harmony were useless. Twilight decided to put her plan into action.

She wrote her first letter ever since losing Zach to Princess Celestia. Before she teleported it with her magic she enchanted the library to explode in the next three minutes. She then sent the letter using her magic. She sent some notes to the others right before the three minutes were up. The notes said to go to the library. Before the library blasted apart in the explosion Twilight spoke.

"I'm finally coming to see you...Zach..." she said as the tree library exploded. Celestia arrived right before the explosions happened and the other elements a little later.

Twilight's funeral was almost the same as Applejack's. She was buried with her element and other things her friends put in that symbolized their precious moments they shared before Twilight went into depression.

She saw nothing for a little after she died.Twilight then saw she was on the tiny island from her dream.

My vision returned to me and I was on the mini island from my dream. Except I could hear the waves crashing and feel the ocean breeze on my face. I was wearing the family armor and held the family sword in my right hand as I looked out to the infinite ocean. I recalled what happened during the dream. I turned around and there was Twilight sure enough. I dropped the sword and it stuck into the sand. The sound got Twilight's attention. I unstrapped my armor, so I could actually hold her.

"Zach...is that really you?" Twilight said to me.

"It is....and I love you too...Twilight." I said finally able to say what I wanted when Twilight said the same to me a very long time ago. I let the gauntlets and boots fall off of me as well as the greaves. I also removed my helmet and unstrapped the belts in the back of the curassier once. I took it off while we were running to each other. Under the armor I wore the clothes I had on when I killed myself but they weren't bloody at all. We met in the middle of the island and hugged tears of joy coming down my face and hers.

"I missed you so much, Zach." Twilight said.

"Never leave me again, Twilight...." I said while I hugged her tight and held her close.

"I won't ever leave you alone." Twilight said to me.

For the first time in forever I was able to see Twilight and feel happiness and joy. This was just like the dream I had....Wait...just like the dre-. My thoughts were cut off as a huge crack was heard.

The island split in two and water filled the yard long gap. We both almost fell over into the gap. I reached out to her. She reached out to me.

"ZACH!" she shouted my name.

"TWILIGHT!" I shouted back.

My third finger was very close to her hoof as the island pieces kept drifting apart. I grazed her hoof feeling her soft coat for the final time.

"I don't want to lose you again..." I said crying tears of sadness. Twilight was also crying.

"I don't either..." Twilight responded.

Just like in the dream I had we were separated and shouted out to each other.

"I'll always remember you and the times we had together, Twilight!" I shouted tears running down my face.

"I'll never forget them or you, Zach!" she called out to me. Her island part was far on the horizon and disappeared.

I cried and cried and cried for two eternities. Death had cheated me. I never got to stay with Twilight. I never got to stay with my family. I never got to stay with my friends in this afterlife. This wasn't Heaven....This wasn't Hell.....This was torture. I'll always feel the pain in my heart and cry every time I see Twilight in my head. I didn't ever see anyone as I spent forever and more on this damned island piece. I know what Twilight wanted and the same for me.

"I want to be with her and have this pain be.....no more..." I said aloud to the skies as I lay on the sand with my armor and sword about it.

"Just....No......More..." I said again hoping someone would hear me. I had no such luck.

I cried forever after this torturous afterlife. Hearing Twilight's sweet voice in my head, seeing her beautiful face only to be dismissed as a hallucination, I am cursed forever more. Cursed with the knowledge that I'll never see her again. Cursed that I'll never tell and show her just how much I love her. Cursed on this godforsaken island to be forever alone. Cursed to be...a wandering soul, looking for any goddamn way out. Cursed forever and I will never be allowed to leave. The only wish I have...is to do every goddamn thing different, starting on that fateful day. But, I have no more chances. No more anything....

Author's Note

I started to choke up writing this.So very sad.I even cried while writing this.It's so damn sad.

This isn't the real ending. We still have a while to go to get there.