Life Among the Wires.

       Octavia, Vinyl and I walked out of the front doors of Canterlot castle. Aeon, Fluttershy and Rainbow came out behind us. Aeon hopped on to Rainbows back and they all three flew off. I let out a sigh and started to walk forward.

Vinyl grabbed my shoulder, “Tech uh this has your name on it,” She handed me a piece of paper.

“Another note?” I wondered unfolding it and reading the words.

Maybe leaving the castle isn’t such a great idea Tech. Think about it, Luna barely knows anything on Gransion, but Celestia knows a lot. Maybe you should wait for her cause on top of all of this, what if Gransion is not even after these so called “orbs” perhaps he’s after something else. It would be more wise to wait here for Celestia instead don’t you think.

Think it over Tech.

I sighed, “Vinyl….Octavia go to Ponyville without me.”

They both turned to me in shock, “Now why in the world would we do that?” Octavia wondered.

“Here,” I handed them a paper from my pocket. “I drew out a map for us to find the orb in Ponyville incase we got separated and now is that time so take it.”

“Tech w-” I interrupt her.

“Just go...I have another plan don’t worry,” I said.

“What about the rock on the way back to Ponyville though?” Vinyl asked. “There is no way the trains are active now and I don’t think me and Octavia would want to walk all the way there. So how are we gonna get to Ponyville?”

“Vinyl….why didn’t you bring that up before we got all the way out here?” I asked.

“Guess I should've huh, ha ha my bad,” she said with a smile.

“Vinyl sometimes,” I stopped my sentence short. “No no it’s alright I say we just wait here then.”

“Uhhh why?” Vinyl asked.

“I think it would be better if I wait for Celestia,” I said, “It would be better if we did that then go on a wild goose chase for an orb that he might not want. Plus I may have a lot of information on Gransion, but I never got his past plans from that book which would be good information. I know Celestia knows some of that information to.”

“Alrighty then let us do that,” Vinyl said.

I sighed and walked back into the castle. I stood silent and thought to myself. What if Gransion isn’t after these orbs, if that’s the case what is he after? Celestia may have answers that I don’t know about. I didn’t learn about Gransions plans in the book that was givin to me. In other words since I don’t know his past plans, I have no idea what he is up to now.

A guard bumped my shoulder walking past me. I turned to him, but he kept walking with Luna by his side. It looked like they were going to her room, wonder why. Anyways back to the subject. Gransion is a weird pony first off. His past is more confusing than my own. He looked different than he does now. I don’t understand his past really nor do I understand how he got this so called “curse” that lets him have his red thread capabilities. So when Celestia gets here that’s what I can ask her.

I look over to Octavia and Vinyl. Both of them were having a conversation about something. They were keeping it down for some reason, I wonder why? I looked out a window of the castle. Celestia was still maintaining her schedule of raising the sun as I could tell, guess it must be a habit by now. However Luna is keeping up with all the paperwork and royal business. Luna said Celestia was in the Crystal Empire….but how long is she going to be there?

I rub my head with my right hoof. “I’m giving myself a headache with all this thinking,” I said. “Vinyl I’ll be outside if you need me.”

She nodded in my direction and I walked out of the castle. Looking toward the sky I sigh. “Maybe it’s time for a family reunion, maybe I should go see my parents,” I said walking toward my parents house. I may have accepted my fathers apology but, I still don’t like him. Yes he’s my father and all, yes work related stress can do mysterious things to how ponies act to others. However how he treated me in the past is no exception. On top of that this could pass some time till Celestia gets here and the house is not a far walk from here anyways. In fact I can see it now.

I walk up to my parents door. I knocked on the door firmly and waited for them to answer.

My mother opened the door. “Tech...why are you here?” She asked me.

“I wanna talk for a bit,” I replied. “Settle things once and for all.”

“Well um come on in then,” she said with a smile.

I walked in and she shut the door behind me. “This place hasn’t changed a bit,” I said. Looking at all of the furniture. Same couch by the wall, same recliner in the same place, that little wooden table right next to the couch, and that nice round coffee table in the middle of the room.

“Well we kept everything the same since you left,” she replied. “Your room is still the same as well if you would like to go see it.”

I smiled when she said that. “A trip down memory lane wouldn’t kill me I guess,” I said with a chuckle.

She walked up the stairs and I followed behind her. Passing old family photos as we walked up the stairs. She opened the second door on her left and gestured for me to go in. I walked into my old bedroom and just looked around. Everything was the same ever since I left. All my broken parts that I broke myself so I could invent new things was still sitting in the same box I had since I was ten. My bed that I used to sleep in when I was sixteen is still here made all nice and the bookshelf still had my old books.

I let off a smile when I was looking at all of this stuff. My mother smiled as well, seeing me happy made her happy. I took a deep breath and looked toward her. “Where’s my dad?” I asked.

“He’ll be back any minute,” she replied. “He had to go pick up something at his office.”

“Ah I see,” I replied walking over to my old book shelf. I looked through all my books one by one. However one caught my eye, one that my mother used to read to me when I was really young. Pony of the Past, such a good fillies book. I pulled it off the shelf and started to look through the pages. Ah sweet nostalgia I was having in this moment. You’d think I wouldn’t be happy to be here in my parents house but, I was for some reason.

As I kept shuffling through the pages we heard the door slam open down stairs. “Somepony didn’t have a good day,” I said.

My mother looked at me worried. “He doesn’t slam the door open like that,” She said.

I looked at her confused then I heard hoofsteps coming up the stairs. “Mother hide,” I said instantly. My mother walked into the room and hid on the other side of the bed. I looked around the doorway and didn’t see a single pony.

“Behind you buddy,” a voice said from behind me.

“Oh…..Gransion,” I said fed up with him.

“How you been my friend?” Gransion said with a weird smile.

“I don’t have time to deal with you right now Gransion,” I said.

“Well I see you got your past memories back,” he shook his head. “Though it won’t change the fact that this time I’m going to win.”

“A little over confident are we Gransion?” I asked him.

“Not at all Techy boy,” he said chuckling. “You may know about my past failures, but they didn’t show the way you defeated me in that book you know why?”

I sighed. “Because I never…..explained to the princesses how I did,” I said. “Since that’s the case I don’t even remember how. However that doesn’t mean I won’t figure it out now.”

“We’ll see about that,” he walked past me and stopped at the bedroom door entrance. “By the way I wouldn’t expect your father home for dinner.”

I looked at him with an over serious expression. “What do you mean?” I said in anger.

“Lets just say I payed him a visit before I came here,” He smiled. “And oh what a conversation we had,” he turned to face me. “And oh how it ended with him sitting in his chair, and still nopony has found his body.”

I’ve never been so calm before…..shouldn’t I be angry? “You…..killed him?” I asked.

“Pretty much but, that’s what you wanted right?” He asked turning to me. “You wanted him out of your life and out of your mother's life so you and her could be happy is that not correct?” He looked at me dead in the eyes.

“Gransion….” my horn began to have magic flow around it. “Yes that is what I wanted...for him to be out of my mothers life and mine. However I didn’t mean like that. Even for how terrible he treated me, he never treated my mother wrong. There was no reason for him to die, all I wanted was for him to leave….that’s all,” my magic instead of being wavy around my horn concentrated and went completely straight and glowed a lighter orange. Gransion just smiled at me.

“On top of all that,” I continued. “My father isn’t all bad and I believed him a little when he said it was stress related.”

“And now he’s gone and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Gransion said.

My eyes began to glow a bright orange. I felt my magic building up inside of me and it was starting to become uncontrollable.

“See this is what I needed to see, go ahead Tech unleash it on me,” Gransion was trying to get something out of me.

I backed up and shook my head. I couldn’t do this….whatever it is I was doing. I got on the ground and covered my head and eyes trying to calm myself down.

“Pff pathetic,” Gransion said. “And here I thought you were going to use your magics full potential. Looks like Celestia has left out some info on you again hasn’t she. Well whatever I’ll leave for now. See ya soon Tech hopefully the next time you can truly stop me,” he chuckled then left.

I was breathing heavily….my magic calmed down. I got a major headache in the matter of seconds. I tried standing up slowly….my legs were shaking, I barely could stand. My mother ran to my side and supported me.

“You alright sweetie?” My mother asked.

“You knew didn’t you?” I looked over to my mother. “You knew ever since I was born that there was something special about me,” She simply nodded. “I-I’m sorry.”

“It’s alright Tech I know you did your best,” she smiled at me.

“I didn’t want to drag you into this…..not like this….” I looked down at the floor.

“Hey you are not allowed to be down that is not how Tech Wire is,” she nudged one of my legs. “Come on now wake up, you still have to stop him.”

“Yeah of course,” I said. “Can you help me to the castle?”

“You sure you can make it?” She asked.

“Yeah I know I can, just get me there,” I looked back up. “And bring my box of parts as well. I need to talk with Celestia now.”