Chapter 7:Evil Abound

Two days had gone by after we told the other girls about Twilight and me being in a relationship. I had finished the finalization of the spark plug plan. I would have something that operated like a giant battery to store the electricity and when I needed to deploy it, I would simply hook up a cord to it and the electricity would zoom through. We were walking the streets of Canterlot, having ponies stare at us while we walked down.

"This is so unnerving." I said to Twilight without moving my lips except for cracking them open to let the sound out.

"Just stay calm we are almost to the blacksmith's shop." Twilight said.

Once we arrived the two customers that were in ignored us, I figured they didn't want trouble. We walked up to the counter past all the shelves of metal work and I pulled the diagram of the storing canister out of my pocket.

"We have a special order to place." Twilight said smiling cheerfully.

The blacksmith looked at the diagram and shook his head before taking it and setting it under the counter,"Come back in two weeks and this should be made with this substance in it. Don't know why you would want such an odd thing, it should be two hundred bits to make something this big." he said eyeing me suspiciously.

"We need it in order to operate some things and we will have the money.." I said not giving any information except for some brief explanation of why.

"Anyways, bye." Twilight said and I just waved to the pony who said bye to Twilight, but gave me no farewell.

"So, after the blacksmith finishes, we find a welder?" Twilight questioned once we left the shop.

"Yep. While we're here, why don't we pay the princesses a visit?"

"I thought you would never ask!" Twilight said happily as she started towards the castle with me behind her.

The guards at the gate nodded to her with a small smile before returning to their statue appearance. They allowed me to go in after her. We came upon the huge double doors to the throne room, the guards pushed them open and nodded to Twilight, but I wasn't allowed such friendly privilege.

" Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student!" I heard Princes Celestia say a little loud from the throne. I looked and saw a dark blue coated alicorn with a midnight colored mane that flowed with magic just like celestia's did. I assumed it was Luna.

Twilight walked ahead of me toward the sun goddess. She bowed and I just leaned over my upper body giving a half bow.

"It's so good to see you, Princesses." Twilight said as she stop bowing and smiled. I had a curved edges at the ends of my lips symbolizing a smile might come soon.

"Good evening, Princess Celestia. I take it that this is Princess Luna." I said calmly.

"And good evening to you to, Zach. Yes, she is my sister." Celestia responded. I gave a full bow to Luna then held out my hand to her.

She slowly took it and we shook,"Is this the bipedal creature of which you spoke of, sister?" Luna looked to her twin.

"Yep, I'm Zach Butchfield...the one and only." I let out a small laugh as I bowed my torso and put my left arm back straight with my right arm over my chest. I heard the others draw a giggle.

"You don't mind if I ask you some things about yourself, do you?"

"Not at all..shoot." I said smiling.

"Why exactly do you like Twilight Sparkle?" Luna asked with a pure curious emotion all over her face.

"Didn't expect this one...I don't like Twi-" I said, but Luna interrupted.

"But, Celestia told me different."

"I love her...She has an equal mind and can keep a pretty good conversation with me, no other girls could. She's beautiful, nice, and knows how to have fun like I do...and we can be kinda flirtatious around each other..." I said the last part with a blush and I knew Twilight must have been blushing as well.

"Okay...but, what if you would never meet Twilight?" Luna asked.

"Didn't see that coming...." I said and my blush faded fast,"Well, I might not have been able to find a girl for me on Earth and probably would have been drawn out from other people and become lonely and very independent." I responded, but then smiled to Twilight,"But, boy am I happy I met Twilight." I said.

"Interesting...." Luna said.

"Why did you ask?" Twilight spoke this time.

"I've been curious to see if there was magic in love just like there is in friendship. And if so, how it would work." Princess Luna responded.

"Anyways, what brings you two here?" Celestia asked.

"Well, we were in Canterlot..." Twilight started.

"And we decided to stop in and say hi." I finished smiling.

"Oh so this is a casual visit?" Celestia asked questioning since Twilight hasn't visited her much since I was here.

"Yep, and I have a question of mine own to ask." I responded.

"What is it, Zach?" Celestia asked.

"I have been hearing this deep voice in my head and Twilight can confirm that I'm am still very sane."

"Very interesting...." Luna said with a look of curiosity.

"Can you tell us more?" Celestia asked also intrigued.

"I feel like I know whatever it is very well and on the way here it said,"Corruption strikes at the day of passion", then it just left..." I said and both the princesses were confused.

"Why didn't you tell me!?" Twilight scowled.

"Because, I didn't want to see you worry. This is my problem and I won't drag you into it." I responded knowing she would always worry about me.

"But, we are a couple and we shouldn't stand alone, right?" Twilight asked. She had been reading books upon the subject.

"I...er...uh..." Luna had stopped thinking and was interested in our side conversation,"you know me seeing you worry makes me worry for you, Twi." I had crouched and looked her into the eyes deeply, smiling.

"Yes, but that isn't the point. We should always rely on each other." Twilight said.

"You're right..." I gave in knowing that she was correct, we shared a hug and turned back to the princesses.

"We'll...let you know if we come up with any reason..." Luna said, having seen our love first hand.

"I guess we take out leave then..." Twilight assumed and started walking back out.

"See you ladies later, and have a good rest of the day." I said with a small bow and followed Twilight.

"Goodbye, Zach." Celestia said with a smile.

Twilight and I kept a normal conversation with each other as we made our way to the welder she had pointed out. We entered and the store had been empty, a pegasus shot up from behind the counter.

"Welcome! What can I do for you two today?" he asked happily.

"Well, we need to have a special order welded once it is done being made by this blacksmith..." I handed him an address of the blacksmith we went to,"the connected areas must be welded very well and the side connecting pieces must also be attached by welding." I also handed him the other diagram of the canister.

"Very well, would you like to pay me in advance?" he asked with a smile. Anypony could see his welding wasn't needed that much.

"Of course, how much?" Twilight responded, she had read my mind.

"Considering all this fine tuning I will have to be very precise. Let's say.... one hundred twenty bits." he said.

"How about we say ninety bits?" I questioned.

"Nope, take it or leave it." he said in the nicest way possible.

"Or how about one hundred five?" Twilight butted in on the bartering.

"Fair enough..." the welder agreed. Twilight floated a bag of bits to the shopkeeper and he stored them under the counter.

"Good, we'll call you when it is ready, so you can head on down to the blacksmith." I said.

"Okay, have a nice evening." the welder said with a smile as he returned to whatever he was doing under the counter.

"Bye" Twilight said as we left. We headed to the train station which was close. We planned this out well, we would have thirty minutes left till the train would arrive. I planned myself to spend twenty minutes with the princesses. The clock said five minutes before the next train. It arrived early and stayed longer by a minute or two and we were first to board. Twilight sat down close to me and next to the window. I leaned back against the seat and looked to the roof. The train started to move.

"Hey, you okay, Zach? You are very quiet." Twilight sounded concerned as she looked towards me.

I looked to her,"It's just that this voice bothers me with what it said on the way to the princesses. It did speak when we entered the throne room."

"Don't think about it too much...okay?" Twilight said concerned.

We were halfway to Ponyville now,"Alright. Thanks, Twilight. You always know what to say." I pecked her on the lips to which she blushed a bit. The rest of the ride there was silent between us.

Twilight and I had the next two years ahead of us peacefully. I didn't hear that voice in my head anymore. Life could never be better. Well...it could be. On those days...

Author's Note

I think anyone can see what comes next here for the most part anyways.