Life Among the Wires.

        “Aeon what on earth are you doing here?” I ask.

“I could ask you the same.” Aeon replied.

“You know him Tech?” Luna asked.

“Well yeah. I kinda saved his life.” I said rubbing the back of my head. “But that’s not important, Aeon why are you here?”

“Again I could ask you the same.” Aeon once again replied.

“You saved his life?!?” Luna asked in shock.

“Luna please, conversation.” I said with a little sas. “Aeon explain to me why you’re here.”

“Well it sorta goes like-” Luna interrupts him.

“I’m sure you two will get enough catch up time later right now, Tech you and I need to talk.” Luna said. Aeon shrugged and left the room.

“Sorry I just didn’t expect to see him here.” I rubbed the back of my head nervously.

“Don’t worry about it.” She smiled. “Always good to see friends every now and then.”

“Glad you don’t mind. Now why did you need my presence I got to meet somepony soon.” I said bluntly.

“Well I’m pretty sure you’ve noticed already.” She sighed. “The red thread and the rocks.”

“I noticed them both and then I had this weird dream. Do you know who’s behind this?” I ask.

“Indeed we do. His name is Gransion.” She replied.

“Gransion? Well hes not winning any name contests anytime soon.” I sat down in a chair across from Luna.

“Indeed.” She let off a small chuckle. “On a serious note however let me run through some history of him that my sister told me.”

“Speaking of which where is your sister?” I ask.

“Busy in the crystal empire.” She said quickly. “I’ll get to that in a minute. Now as told by my sister Gransion has lived for thousands of years just as us princesses.”

“So he’s an alicorn?” I question.

“No. He is an earth pony with the capabilities of an alicorn.” My eyes widened a bit as she continued. “He was born from two alicorns that were happily married. He soon lost control and became what he is today.” She gave me a picture. I saw a brown pony with soulless gray eyes. “The red thread he uses is still unexplained to this day but our scientists are still trying to figure it out.”

“So were battling an enemy we hardly know?” I ask

“Pretty much.” She said nervously. “But look it here.” She pointed toward the picture. “See how he is bald. He used to have a mane and tail but he cut them off.”

“Why did he do that?” I ask.

“To hide his identity.” She replied.

“Do you have a picture of him with his mane and tail?” I ask.

“Sadly no. You would see a big difference.”

“So this is the pony were against. Seems easy enough any idea where he is?” I question.

“Again sadly no. However we are keeping our eyes open if we see him we will take care of him.” She replied.

I leaned back in the chair. “So you know everything he’s doing right now?”

“Yes we do.” She confirmed.

“Now as for your sister why is she in the Crystal Empire?” I asked.

“She’s in the Crystal Empire on ‘royal duties’ I guess you could say.” She replied

“Seems like your sister is hiding things from you again.” I said.

“I highly doubt it she’s just really busy.” She smiled.

I chuckle. “All right then if you need me give me a call.” I stand up to leave.

“Just a moment Tech.” Luna stops me.

“Yes?” I look back to her.

“Take Aeon with you.” She smiled.

“.....what? Are you crazy he could be in danger if I take him.” I say with a serious look of concern.

“I wouldn’t say that. He got trained by the royal guards while he was here I think he will be a good companion.” She smiles. “Now take him with you that’s an order.”

I sigh. “Yes ma’am.” I walk out of the room and grab Aeon in my magic.

“Hey whoa what the...oh Tech hey where are we going?” He asked.

“You are coming with me to Vinyl to see how Octavia is doing. Luna told me to bring you along with me so welcome back.” I said with a smile.

“Oh so I get to go with you to see your lover.” He said in a mushy voice.

I sigh heavily. “I don’t love her we just happened to be in the same train crash.”

“Suuuure.” He said sarcastically

“Don’t make me slam you in a wall.” I said bluntly.

“Sorry can you put me down now?” He asked nicely.

I put him down gently on the ground. “Sometimes I question you Aeon.”

“Hey I question myself so welcome to the party.” He said as we both chuckled. Its been a while since I’ve been with Aeon. A very long time. I wonder what happened to him and why he didn’t come back earlier or at least let me know he was here. Why do I always question these things in my mind.

“Tech...hey Tech buddy your phone is ringing.” Aeon points to my shirt pocket.

“Oh...right.” I pull out the phone and see it’s a call from Vinyl. I answer “Hello.” She sounded panicked.

“Tech dude you need to get here now!” She said.

“Whoa Vinyl calm down what’s going on.” I said calmly.

“Tech seriously hurry this bad very very bad get to the hospital as fast as possible!” She was still panicking.

“I’m on my way!” I hung up the phone and looked toward Aeon. “We need to get to the Canterlot hospital this instant hop on my back.”

“Oh boy action time!” Aeon said with excitement and hopped on my back. I ran straight to the door bursting it open. I run out to the road passing my old house looking toward it. I saw my mother in the window looking at me. She smiled as I ran past. I took a left at the road ahead running toward the hospital.

“There has gotta be a faster way.” I said in running motion.

“Umm tech you’re a unicorn.” Aeon points to my horn.

I stop running and facehoof. “I’m such an idiot under pressure.” I charged my magic teleporting me and Aeon in front of the hospital. I open the doors and Vinyl looks over to me.

“Dude glad you're here you gotta go see Octavia like now!” She tugged at my hoof.

“Alright, alright Aeon I’ll see you in a sec.” I said being pulled by Vinyl. “Vinyl what’s going on?” I ask.

“It’s Octavia and it’s bad. I told the doctors that you might be able to help.” She said.

“I have no training for this Vinyl and I have no idea what’s wrong with her neck.” She looked toward me when I said that. Just by her facial expression I could tell she wanted to do anything to help her. “But heck if I don’t try. Is she in here?”

“Yes she is.” Vinyl said with assurance. I opened the door and walked in.

“Well….that’s new.” Octavia’s whole neck was red and was glowing to a beat….like to her own heartbeat.

“Glad you could make it mister.” One of the nurses said.

“Tech Wire.” I said because obviously they didn’t know my name.

“You think you could help?” The nurse asked.

“Maybe…” I walked over to Octavia’s side and examined her neck. “I don’t see...wait a sec.” I looked on the right side of her neck. I levitated some tweezers over. “Look at this.” I gestured the nurse over. She came and looked at the spot I was pointing at.

“What on earth is that?” She asked in shock.

“I don’t know.” I replied. “But that seems to be the cause of the problem and I’m gonna try to pull it out.”

“Pull it out!?!” The nurse was shocked. “Are you sure that’s safe?”

“Nurse please no drama act. I’m not sure if it’s safe or not but if it’s causing her neck to do this then what else do we got?” I asked.

The nurse calmed down a bit. “Alright just be careful.”

“Indeed now hold her head steady while I do this.” I said. The nurse held her head gently to the side while I used the Tweezers to yank out a glowing substance from Octavias neck. Octavia began to struggle it seemed to be causing her some pain. I yanked a bit pulling out a rock wrapped in red thread. Small so it didn’t damage to anything inside her neck.

“That’s it?” The nurse said surprised.

“I think so.” I examined the rock and the thread. “With this we might be able to track him.” I said quietly to myself. I looked down to Octavia and her neck stop glowing and soon returned to normal. “Nurse no means to be the doctor here but you should probably patch up her neck.”

“Oh right.” The nurse grabbed some medical supplies.

I walked out of the room. “Vinyl she’s fine now.”

“You fixed her?” She asked still panicked.

“All better, happened to be a rock and some thread in her neck. It wasn’t very deep but it was logged that’s for sure.” I said. “On top of that it was too shallow to hurt anything so she just has a wound is all.”

Vinyl let off a sigh of relief. “Thank Celestia she’s alright.”

I looked back and forth in the lobby. “Hey wait a second where’s Twilight and Rainbow?” I asked.

“Twilight couldn’t do anything...so her and Rainbow went back to where they're staying at here in Canterlot.” Vinyl replied. “She said leave it to the doctors but they were not making any progress.”

“Well glad I showed up then.” I put the rock and thread into my shirt pocket. it seemed powered down so I assumed it was safe. “I’m really confused about all this stuff.”

“What do you mean?” Vinyl asked.

“I don’t understand this red thread. I don’t understand how the magic is powerful from it.” I looked down. “On top of that I don’t know if we’ll ever find the pony behind all of this.”

“Tech relax man.” Vinyl put a hoof on my shoulder. “First off I’m sure this whole problem will get sorted out. Second you really got stop having these weird mood changes. You went from happy, to anger, now to confusion. Just relax and think.”

“You’re….right.” I actually couldn’t believe my own ears. Not saying Vinyl is stupid or anything but, shes never acted like this around me.

“So do you know who is behind this?” She asked.

“Yeah somepony named Gransion.” I replied. “I only saw a picture of him though that’s it.”

“Good when we find him we’ll pummel him.” Vinyl said with enthusiasm.

I chuckled. “That was kinda the idea anyways.”

“Alright I’m gonna go see how Octavia is holding up.” She smiled. “You just sit out here and relax.”

“I’ll stand outside need some air.” Vinyl walked passed me and into Octavia’s room. I walked out the front doors and looked up to the night sky. “What do you want?” I asked.

“Just to see how you’ve been.” A mare said. “Do you have a minute?”

I looked over. “Of course I do mom.”