Your Human and You: Seeing Eye to Eye
To Right the Wrongs
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Today, it was like any other day. The sun was shining with all of its celestial might, the moon was reflecting said might on the other side of the calm planet. But, everything was not as it seemed, underneath the calm was the fear of something new, something unheard of, a revolution. The humans and their numbers grew ornery as tension grew between the nations. Word broke out among the citizens as the acts of the humans were noticed. Most said it was sign of the humans ill treatment, others said it was the lack of harsher treatment. Opinions clashed and view points were shot down, one by one as neither of the sides were proven to be right.
But there was one human that was unknown to the general public of any and every nation. The strange happenings were blamed on him, but they were not his fault. No, they were anything but his fault, how could they be? This couldn't be his fault... could it? Could everything that has been going on, be because of his own lack of judgement?
"Why did this happen? Why me?" Bertram asked himself as he paced in the ethereal plane that he now called home. His surroundings were nothing more than wisps of light blue smoke. A moment later, a voice sounded out from thin air that cause Bertram to stop in his tracks.
"Why not you? With all the stuff that your world has put you through, you were the prime example for your people."
"We have been over this for the past two weeks now! These are not my people, we aren't the same!" Bertram thought as he kicked his legs into the clouds of smoke out of frustration.
"You are the only one that could lead them though, the beings here are clouded with the years of slavery, and happiness, they cannot see past the simple form your own are putting up. Even though they are the least dominant ones in this realm, All it takes someone worthy of being their leader, and they will follow."
"But why me?! Why was I chosen to be put in this role?!" Bertram thought as he stared up into the sky, or what he thought was the sky.
"Like I said before." The voice sighed as it continued. "The trials and tribulations you have been put through, show that you can prevail over any type of challenge, be it physical or mental. And the trials ahead of you, will test that."
Bertram was silent for a moment before nodding and saying. "Fine, but what can I do while I'm here?"
"You can do anything you want, just be ready, it is your job now to save this world, to right the wrongs."
"I miss Wolfie. Even though we had him for a day, I still think he was the only one who was my friend." Dinky said as she toyed with her bowl full of corn flakes with a spoon in her magic.
Derpy sighed as she watched her daughter. Honestly, this was better than to have a monster living under their roof. But with her daughters mood and behavior after she lost her first human, she would rather have a monster in her house than see her daughter sad as she was now.
"Come on now Dinky, cheer up, I'm making muffins this afternoon after I get home from work, okay?" Dinky's mouth lifted into a slight smile at the thought of one of her mothers muffins. The sweetness of the bread could already be tasted as the thought of biting down into one of the blueberry muffins with the berries inside bursting with the juices even sweeter than the cupcake itself.
"I have to go now, don't be late for school, okay?" Derpy said as she kissed Dinky on the forehead and left the house.
The thought was short lived as something caught her eye from the edge of her vision, it was like an orange light glaring from a reflection. She looked over to whatever it was that she had seen but all she saw was an empty doorway to the living room. Shrugging, she proceeded to eat her cereal.
But the light came back into the edge of her vision as she turned away, she looked to her left again and saw nothing but empty doorway. This time, her eyes didn't leave the location, in hoping that whatever was there would appear again. And her hopes were anything but dashed away as a orange spark of electricity sparked from the middle of the door way. Bit by bit, more and more sparks came from the doorway as extremities began to make themselves present. A single finger became a whole hand, more and more of the human became present as it squeezed through the tight opening.
The next thing that was noticed was the screaming from the human as it continued to get pushed out of the hole. The extremities that were out were covered in a slick pink goo. It was a slow and methodical as the human was pushed out, but, in one final motion the whole human slipped out of the hole yelling profanities as it tried to wipe the goo from its clothing. Even though it was yelling and cursing, the humans mouth wasn't moving.
Dinky took one look at the human and said. "Wolfie?" To this, Bertrams thoughts were silenced and he looked towards the filly and thought.
"That's me, now let's get you to school." Dinky gasped as she saw her human standing before her.
"Where have you been? I was so worried when the hospital said you escaped, I thought you were gone forever."
"I'm not going to do that to you, even if this world is crazy, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon."
"Wait... How are you talking?" Dinky asked as she looked up at Bertram with confused eyes.
"I'm not really talking, these are my thoughts that you're hearing."
Dinkys head cocked sideways in even more confusion as she said. "How can I hear your thoughts?"
"It's a long story."
"Well, we've got time, tell it on the way to school." Dinky said as she picked up her saddlebags in her magic and moved towards the door.
"Hey Dinky, I've got to tell you something." She turned to look at Bertram as she stood in the doorway.
"What? Is something wrong?"
"Kind of, right now, when I'm with you, you're the only one who can see me."
"Okay?" Dinky said as she turned to exit the house and shut the door.
Bertrams eyes widened to her reaction.
"She questions why I'm talking, but not about the fact that she is the only one I'm letting see me? "
Bertram blinked out of the house and next to Dinky. Bertram looked down to her as he continued to walk with her.
"So... School huh? How has that been?"
"Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon have been gone for a while, but I hear they're coming back today."
"Oh... I might have had a hand in that but... never mind."
The school house came into view as the two came around a corner, silence prevailed over the two as they continued to make their way to the school house. "So, what do you want me to do while you're in there?"
"I guess you could sit next to me, it shouldn't be a problem since no one else can see you."
"Okay. It might even be fun to learn something while I'm there." Bertram thought as he watched Dinky push the door open.
Everypony was already in class just waiting for the bell to ring, Bertram looked over the class room to see mostly smiling faces, but there were two that had a scowl written all over their face as they watched the filly enter the room. This was going to be a long day.
Recess was out for the school and everypony was out in the yard doing something Dinky was back in her usual spot reading a book by herself, Bertram was on his way back from getting ice cream for the little filly, a small token of an apology.
"I hope she likes vanilla, why wasn't there anything else but vanilla though? It can't be that bad..." He looked at his cone of cream and gave it a lick. It tasted like regular vanilla, but that didn't explain why ponies didn't want to eat it.
"Oh well, not my problem." He thought.
As he got closer to the fence which Dinky was reading the first voices he heard were ones that he didn't very much like.
"You going to cry? Not so easy when your human isn't here to save you is it? You can't defend yourself, you can't even use your magic."
"I can use my magic just fine!" Dinky cried as Diamond Tiara pushed down onto old bruises.
"Yeah, just like you mom can use her wings." said Silver Spoon.
Bertram watched the scene unfold before him. His fists crushed the cones of ice cream in his hands, as the chunks of the desserts fell to the ground, Bertrams back began to itch with a familiar burn. If no one could see him earlier, they could definitely see him now as the enchantment dropped from his body, revealing him and the embers engulfing his clothing.
"Come on blank flank, fight back." Diamond Tiara said as she continued to torture the filly.
Bertram began to sprint to the fence, as he reached it he jumped and pulled himself over, his eyes never leaving the scene before him.
"Fight back blank flank." Both Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon taunted before, a slap was heard from the figure of the three fillies. Everything near the fence went silent as Diamond Tiara held a hoof on her cheek.
Time seemed to slow down as Bertram watched a pink hoof being raised.
"When will they ever learn?!" Bertram shouted in his mind as he took off towards the group of three. Just before the hoof connected Bertram scooped up Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara and punted the grey one before turning the pink one towards him.
Diamond Tiaras face was filled with disbelief as she looked at Bertram. He smiled as he positioned the filly above the ground dropped her. Another filly was sent squealing through the air as Bertram turned towards his owner.
Dinky was looking up at Bertram with tear filled eyes as he picked her up and made his way out of the schoolyard.
"Hold it right there." A familiar voice said from behind before clamps were shut on his ankles and neck. Bertram turned to see Celestia and a plethora of guards smiling at him. He frowned and laid Dinky on the grass.
"You're not going anywhere this time." Celestia said as Bertram tried to use his powers to jump.
Celetia trotted up to Bertram and gave him a smug look. "Now... What are we going to do with you?"
Author's Note
Hello everybody, Night Music here, and this has been another chapter of YHaY: Seeing Eye to Eye, if you see anything wrong please leave it in the comments and I'll try to get it as soon as possible. And thank you all for sticking around so far, let's see where this takes us.
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