Author's Note

Saboru
Queen Chrysalis
Lily

Welcome Back

"David, wait!" Chrysalis shouted as she and Lily were trying to catch up with me. When they were close enough I turned around and began the trek back to what I assumed would be Twilight's castle. I gave that prediction some more strength as I saw that where the Golden Oaks Library used to be was nothing more than a huge hole in the ground now. At first I thought that that giant tree had sprouted up from here but when I took a closer look I saw that the ground around it was singed which meant that it must have been burned down.

Poor Twilight. I know don't like her much since that day but I know how hard it is to lose your home and all of the memories that you build in them if you stay long enough. I thought as I felt a bit sorry for her and Spike.

"I guess it's a good thing that all you ever did in your house was play video games or have been deleted from your mind be your own will, isn't it?"

"Not really considering that I can't just forget everything now that the catalyst is nearby now. The only reason I was able to forget everything was because she wasn't anywhere near me which made things easier. Now though, if these talks go well then I'll no choice but to be near her if she's friends with Bonbon."

Me and Saboru had that conversation a while ago when I was walking away from the town square. I was much closer to the castle now I noted that it was further out of Ponyville than I thought. Makes sense though because as I got closer to it I saw that is was bigger than I had originally thought so of course it was all the way out here, it would have demolished some houses if it took up the spot where the library used to be.

"Would you stop for a second so that we can talk about what happened back there?" Chrysalis demanded as she blocked my path.

"There's nothing to talk about Chrys. I said what I wanted to say and will deal with the rest of the issue later. Right now we have something more important to do and I'm not going to let my encounter with her run my emotions off their rails and screw this up for you." I tell her now speaking in my normal tone again.

"But isn't that what you're doing right now? Letting an encounter with that girl run your emotions."

"What are you talking about?"

"Well how about how you left me and Lily in the center of town by ourselves?" I stopped in my tracks when she said that realizing that she was right.

*Sigh* Okay I see your point but what did you expect from me? Hearing that she was here really was a shot at my self control. She was the reason why I had blocked out every memory I had of my past and had believed that I had erased them. just hearing her voice brought them all back along with the pain I felt from that day. I thought that I had forgiven her for what happened but it would seem that I was wrong but at least I was right about having you two here with me. The only reason I didn't turn to face her was because I realized that I would make good on the threat I made to her that day and I wasn't going to do that and ruin your chance of establishing peace." I told her as I finally faced her with a small smile adorning my features.

"And what will you do if she is brought forth in the talks to question you personally?" She asked with a hint of skepticism.

"Then I hope that you're right there with me, and you too Lily. I'm going to need all of the help I can get to make sure that I don't lose it. Just because I have control over the Dark State doesn't mean that I have control over my anger and that is not something that any of us want to see trust me." My smile was growing as the conversation went on as it was taking my mind off of 'Her'.

"So does that mean that you're going to be okay then Daddy?" Lily asked as she walked up to me.

"Yes sweetie I'll be fine now just...make sure that you stay close okay. I'm going to need your help to make sure I'll be alright while we're here." I tell her as I pick her up and set on top of my head.

"Hehehe, okay daddy I just right here then so I don't go anywhere." She giggle as she clung to the top of my head like she was trying to turn herself into a hat.

With all of that out of the way we made our way to the castle. My and Chrysalis steeled ourselves for what we would encounter once we got in as we stood at the entrance. We took quick glances at each before opening the doors, only for them to fly open to a bunch of guards standing there and pointing spears at us with the three princesses, the girls, and Shining Armor right behind them, all looking ready to fight a war.

I grabbed Lily and set her down next to Chrysalis before putting myself between them and the guards. "We're not here to fight Celestia." I say as I looked her in the eyes and taking no mind to any of the other ponies before us.

"And why should we believe you when you're aligned with the changeling queen that attacked our subjects?" Luna asked as she stared at our entourage with hatred.

"Because we have information that you may be interested in and we here to help you." I calmly answered back.

"And what information would that be monster!?" Shining Armor snarled out.

"How about another changeling invasion with a bigger and stronger army and their first target is Ponville." That seemed to get their attention.

"And how did you get this information exactly and what's in it for you two?"Twilight asked as I took in her new appearance. She was no longer the nerdy unicorn I last saw and was now an alicorn.

"You know you scare me when you're able to predict shit like that without any information on the, right?"

I wouldn't say I didn't have any information. You can't honestly say that you didn't suspect something would come out of her and girls being the elements of harmony did you?

"I guess you're right there but still if she says that she got the castle from solving a friendship problem I'm going to lose it. I mean unless that friendship problem somehow involves a giant monster or something like that then the blow may be partially soften." I just roll my eyes at Saburo's statement considering that he knows full well that that's exactly what happened.

"We obtained this information directly from the queens staging this invasion, who happen to be my mother and sisters, all of whom are much crueler than me when it comes to being rulers. As for what we want, well we came here seeking help to stop them before they can even arrive as well as to form a peace treaty between my hive and Equestria." Chrysalis spoke from behind me as she still didn't none of them not to attack.

"And why would you betray your family and risk death to make peace with us. More importantly why do you think that we would even be interested in forming a peace treaty after your own invasion?" Luna asked without as much venom as before.

"I know you won't believe me but it was my mother that had actually pushed me into doing the invasion. I have been wanting to make peace for a long time now but didn't know how to go about it considering that most other species don't accept us anywhere. The treaty itself would be beneficial to both of us as well seeing as we can obtain a constant supply of love energy without having to rely on kidnapping your subjects or idiotic plans that involve invasion and enslavement. I'd tried to get my mother and sisters to understand that but they stubbornly refuse to even try to change their ways. When they had told me that they were going to use the love energy that David has given us to invade Equestria I outright protested but to no avail. They wouldn't have told us anything if David challenged all of them, saying that he would stop them by himself if it all came down to it but he still needs time to prepare, time that we hope you can help provide, or at least help accelerate his progress." Chrysalis pleaded as she now stood in front of me and bowing to them.

"So this monster has been feeding you huh? Guess that's why he's standing with you of all ponies, you must have gotten him under your control. Figuring that something like him would scare off any other hive from attacking and now you two are here with this pathetic attempt to overthrow us with tales of another invasion. Surely you can do better than that Queen Chrysalis." Luna said mockingly as she shook her head in a disappointed manner.

"I am under no ones control Luna and if you don't believe me then check for yourself. As for the invasion, it's very real and it's going to start in just five months from now but as Chrysalis said I need the time to prepare for a battle with her mother and sisters. The invasion will be going on during our fight and I am going to need backup to keep their drones in the Everfree if there are to be no casualties. and before any of you say anything I'm going to say this now. If you don't want to help that's fine, but don't interfere with my preparations. We will be staying in the castle in the Everfree Forest along with the rest of the Hive but we will not come to Ponyville if you don't allow it. And for your information Luna, yes I supply the love that her hive now feeds on, but I do so willing seeing as Chrysalis had been willing to take me in even after I had declined at first. She and the others have treated me with respect even after seeing the monster I can become but then again they're not so ungrateful of things like that, unlike six certain ponies I know." I looked at the six that had caused me to have to leave though I don't think I could have been more grateful to them for it. If it wasn't for them driving me out I wouldn't have been there to save Lily or had met Chrysalis, and I would have had to interact with 'Her'.

"You deserved for everything you had done that day so you have nopony but yourself to blame" Rainbow Dash spatted out. "Besides we got a way better human to replace you and she isn't depressing as you were. We were actually able to have fun with her....... and here she comes now. She said that she knew the younger you so I bet that she could back me up in why you're a monster that deserves to be locked up in Tartarus."

I heard footsteps behind me long before Rainbow Dash was able to spot her but still focused on her rant. If she really believes that she can get evidence that I was born a monster she was going to be in for a an unwelcomed surprised. They got closer and closer before they stopped right behind and I knew what she was trying to do. "I wouldn't suggest touching me Lacie because I'm still angry and I would honestly not want to make good on that promise I made all those years ago."

"Promise, what promise is he talking about Lacie and why were you trying to hug him wasn't just a monster back on your world?" Rarity asked, confused by the actions of their friend.

"The promise he made to me was that he would kill me if I ever came near him again, and I've never bothered him since then because he never made a promise that he didn't keep. I thought that maybe he wasn't that person anymore since he didn't do anything when we met in the town square which why I tried to hug him just now. I thought that I could just apologize for turning him into that monster, for breaking his heart, and worst of all....for leaving him alone to face a world that needed the kindness that he can offer. ...........I know you're a very different person that you were almost eight years ago David but I know that that kindness still exist, doesn't it?" Lacie asked as she kept herself out of my field of vision.

"Of course it is, it's the same reason why I didn't attack you and it's the same reason why I'm here now. It's because that side of me still exist is why I've helped let Chrysalis' hive feed on my love, the reason why I help them reconstruct their hive, why I taken it upon myself to be Lily's father. You, Bonbon, and Chrysalis are the only ones that understand that about me and why it hurt so much to lose you but my anger and distrust is what is keeping me from just letting us be friends again. If you truly are sorry for everything and want to start over then you'll have to prove yourself just as everyone else who I call a friend now has had to." I say before turning around to face her once and for all.

Lacie, a caucasian woman with straight blonde hair and dark brown eyes. She is only two inches shorter than me and has the figure of the perfect model. She's wearing a light blue t-shirt that hug her C sized breast, with a dark blue overshirt that is unbuttoned along with a pair and skinny jeans and plain tennis shoes. She was my best friend, my only friend, since we were infants and we were inseparable, you would have never seen one of us without the other during the day and late into the night. I was wimpy but smart kid that didn't like it when fighting was going and try to make everyone my friend. I was taught by my parents to never fight even if someone else was hitting you and I lived by that everyday, hoping that I would make friends with everyone I came into contact with but to no avail. It was because of this teaching that I was constantly picked on as we grew older and the only thing I could do to get anyone's attention was to lay down and cry, which led to me being picked on even more. The only one to accept me was Lacie and had my back whenever things got too much for me to handle by telling off everyone who wouldn't leave me alone.

Back then the boys in our school would back off immediately when she was around because they thought that she was the prettiest girl there and grew jealous of me as I was the only one she would spend her time with if not with her parents. As the years went by I stuck to my philosophy, hoping that people would respect me for the kind soul that I was and Lacie always stuck right by me. Our relationship started to change though as we learned more about the world and was able to start understanding some of the more.....grown up feelings we were having for each other. I finally asked her to be my girlfriend after having gathered to courage to even attempt it and she had accepted. I figured that I wouldn't have had a happier live with any other girl and wanted to make sure that she wasn't taken from me.

We didn't much when we became a couple other than showing our affection in a much different manner than we used. We both knew that we were too young to do anything else besides kiss, though I guess we weren't really supposed to that either back then but we kept it to just that to keep our parents from freaking out. I treated her as though she was the most important thing in all of time and space with the love I felt for her and we were both happy. That is what I thought until a one year during Valentine's day is when everything changed for me. I had planned out a special day for the two of us and had asked her to meet me at one of the nearby parks at nine o'clock, where we were going to start it off. Excited as I was that day I had gone there three hours early and gone over everything I had planned in my head to make sure that the day was perfect.

When it reached nine she had shown up, right on schedule, but with an unexpected, and definitely uninvited, guest with her. Accompany her was the worst bullies I ever had and the only creature that I can say that I hate more than anything. His name was Alexander Ramirez had he was a dumb son of a bitch. He should have been a middle schooler when we met him in kindergarten but didn't make fun of his mental handicap because it would have hurtful. He followed to path of peer pressure when he started picking on me just like the others but seemed to enjoy it more as he would go out of his way to torture me.

When I saw him that day he was twice my size in height and muscle mass so even if I wanted to fight back I would've gotten my ass beat so I did nothing in regard to his bullying as it would only get worse if he was ratted out to teachers. I had asked Lacie why she had brought him with her and that was when she told me that we were breaking up brought that she hoped that we could stay friends. Despite having my world crumble around hearing those words I accepted anyway as I didn't want to lose her even if we couldn't be something more.

I was going to go back home without any issues but it would seem that Alex decided that he was going to kick while I was down despite the fact that Lacie had made him promise to stop making fun of me. He only uttered one taunt but that was all it took to bring me down further than I've ever felt before. He had taunted something that was meant to be a secret, a secret that only one other person knew besides myself and she was standing right here. At that moment my mind was done taking the abuse and shut down as it tried to figure what it should make me do. One part was saying to go to the fall back and cry but another part, the part that contained all of my unreleased emotions, was telling me to make him hurt, to repay the torment he's put me through and then add in interest.

As the two sides duked it out Alex continued with his torment and I could Lacie trying to stop him but wasn't having any luck. The more he went on the more the part of me that wanted to hurt him was winning out. Finally after he decided that it was a good idea to get in my face, one thought went through my head that decided my fate from there. Lacie, only person who I trusted with my hidden secret, which I still can't figure out for the live of me, had revealed it to my tormentor. She's betrayed my trust and is only trying to cover up her mistake and I'm paying the price for a fact that I should have known all these years, I am alone in this world and should have never trusted anyone to begin with. With that running through my head I had finally snapped and did a few things for the first time. The first was that I finally got angry for once, second was that I raised my fist at someone, and lastly...... it was the first time I nearly killed just for the hell of it. It was on this day that Saboru came into existence and it was him that drove my actions. I told him who I wanted to hurt, who I wanted to make pay for my torment and he made sure it happened.

Saboru had released the strength that my small body had had locked away inside and used every last bit of it get my revenge. I beat Alex mercilessly until he was inches from death. I was going to just kill him and be done with it but it seemed that I cared just enough for Lacie for her words to have had any effect in the Dark State at that time. I had stopped when she asked me to and walked away from the seen only for her to come after me. When I finally realized why I stopped to look over my shoulder and made sure she saw the dark look I had. That was when I made the promise, "Come near me again and I'll make sure you suffer like you have made me this day. I'll put you through an even worse torment than what I've suffered through all these years until you're begging for death but it will only be then will I stop and grant your wish to end your pathetic life. This is a promise I will keep no matter when or where you'll pay for your insolence should you be so foolish as to seek me out."

That was the last day I had seen Lacie, until today that is, but I'm no longer that person as I've calmed down a while ago and have gone back to be the kind soul that I was before, just not to the same extent. Lacie seemed to understand this when she looked at me and didn't see the anger that was expected to be there, but a genuine smile that hadn't been there for a long time.