Injection

Authors notes: As promised, here is the Fluttershy chapter.

I trudged my way up the Ursa Majors throat, with its lifeless body now on the ground, I could have sworn I heard crying on the outside of the neck, as though someone were outside, it sounded like that yellow Pegasus I had seen earlier, I assumed it was a coincidence and kept on trudging.

As I reached the mouth area, I trudged up the slimy tongue, a very hard feat considering my ankles condition. Surprisingly enough when I got out, my shotgun was gone. I looked behind me to see the same yellow Pegasus from earlier, she looked like she had been sobbing, and she was pointing my own shotgun at me.

I held my hands up in the air, deciding to humor her for a second. She held it up in her mouth, the butt of the gun resting on the ground, and pointed it at my face, how she did this puzzled me like all hell, but I walked towards her and decided to ask her a question.

“Do you even know how to work that thing?” I asked, trying my best not to laugh at her, I pulled a cigarette box/lighter out of my pocket, I whistled the Winston jingle and then lit the cigarette.

“Well you point it at something, and it kills it for you, right?”  she asked.

This time I couldn’t help it, I started laughing my ass off. Tears dropped from both of our eyes, hers from sadness, mine from laughter. I grabbed the shotgun as she fell to her knees and sobbed.

I started limping away when suddenly a huge impact hit me on the back. She had tackled me. The shotgun flew out of my hands.  I got back up, anticipating her next attack. As she flew in for a second slam I punched her straight across the jawline, coulda sworn I saw her spit out some blood.

“So kid, what’s your name, and why have you been spying on me!?” I picked her up from the ground, holding her by the neck.

“Fluttershy, and the innocent creature you just killed, was my friend!!!”, She yelled making me laugh again.

“You can call that beast a lot of things, stupid, smelly, fucking ugly, but innocent ain’t one of them.”  I said, making her regret her words, I took the cigarette from my mouth and gave her a nice burn on the cheek.

“Bet you like that, huh? Tough girl here is a FREAKING MASOCHIST! Isn’t that right!?” I taunted her, then I threw her to the ground at full throttle.

I grabbed my shotgun and yet again started limping away, before the Rainbow and blue Pegasus I met earlier flew right by me.

“Is she okay!?” I heard 5 voices say in unison.

The rest of the horses I met earlier ran in, along with a purple maned white unicorn, and a winged white unicorn with a rainbow mane walked in.

“Luna told us she saw Fluttershy following you, I am sure you did all you could to protect her.” The alicorn said to me(I think that’s what it’s called, been a while since I took mythology class). They saw my wounded state compared to her wounded one and automatically realized what happened, they automatically realized that the Ursa Major had nothing to do with her beat down.

Something told me I was going to need to do a lot of explaining.

When we got back to Fluttershy’s cottage back where my journey began, I decided to talk.

“So, in my defense, she attacked first, a revenge scheme of sorts for killing the Ursa Major thingy.”  I stated, thinking this was some kind of courtroom or something.

“Monster, hurting my friends.” I heard Twilight scoff. I let loose a chuckle.“

“What are friends but something that ends up in a memory haunting you, telling you ‘You could’ve saved them’.”

Man I was on a bad streak or something today, they all just started to stare at me, like a “What is wrong with you?” look?

The white alicorn (You know that actually has a nice ring to it) spoke up.

“I realize you must have a troubled past, girls, I would like to talk to this man alone.”

Of course I missed out on the perfectly time to joke ‘Are you hitting on me?’ because I was too busy with that god damn flashback of their deaths, they were the closest thing I had to friends, and we fell right into a trap.

“Listen young human, you are troubled, that last line of yours clearly told me, I would like to know more about your past rather than you stalling. I want every last detail.” The alicorn spoke up. I raised an eyebrow.

“Hold on a minute, I just met you, I don’t even know your name, and you want me to tell you something that tortures me as though this were a therapy session, and don’t call me young I am 21 damn years old.”

“Oh, yes, of course, I am Celestia, ruler of this land, and you are?” She smiled warmly, which I saw as a rather obvious attempt to comfort me.

I let out a sigh before stating the name the Vigilante’s gave me.

“Injection, It’s not my name, but it is what I go by, my real name holds too much of a sh*tstorm of a past.”

Then it happened, Celestia stood up and touched her horn to my forehead.

I my eyesight started blurring, my mind wandered back through memories I’d rather not see.

Their deaths, my childhood,  and crapload more.

“So young one, if you wish to be called Injection, I shall pass this, I see why they gave you the name, but you should not mourn over the death of them, they cared for you, as you did for them, and I see you can not clearly see them, but their spirits are with us in this very room. The girls have the Elements of Harmony. I am not even sure they CAN die, so they would not understand your situation, but I will explain it to them as best as I can.” Celestia gave that warm smile again and left the room, leaving me with the question of why she would make me relive such horrid moments.