Can Sins Be Forgiven? Original

The Hospital

“Ugh…..Where….Where am...I?” Stinger said as he was coming to with a groaning pain.

“Your at the Ponyville hospital and I am Nurse Redheart.” a White mare with a pink mane and a little nurse hat said.

“What...happened to me?” Stinger asked trying to remember last nights events that occurred.

“You were hit by a cab and you flew into an empty apple cart. You have been out for three days but you made a rather quick recovery in such a short amount of time too. I’ve never seen anything like it.” Nurse Redheart said.

“Where is my armor?” Stinger said worryingly.

“Well, when we took your armor off it did something quite unusual and formed into this large red orb. What kind of magic is it?” She asked holding it in her hooves which was about the same size or a bit bigger.

Stinger thought for a moment about his current situation and how he would reply answering this mare’s question. He was about to tell her until a brown stallion with a tanish mane and a lab coat with a clipboard in his hooves. He trotted up to the bed and asked the nurse to leave.

“Sorry about that… Nurse Redheart can be a little curious about strangers. Although I am curious about this contraption.”

“Who are you?” Stinger asked questioningly towards the brown stallion.

“Oh I’m Doctor Horse.”

Stinger raised a brow having a hard time believing that was his real name but he shrugged the thought away and focused on the situation.

“Can’t believe these fools don’t even know what crimsonuptanium is than again these ponies don’t need to know anything, especially since they wouldn't understand how my armor can form into orb so that my people could sneak inside of enemy lines blending in with the humans without detection, besides I plan on hanging up my armor for good and starting over.” Stinger thought. But was unsure how to reply to the doctor. Then it hit him.

“This here was conjured up by a spell and I was testing it back in my homeland a long time ago.” Stinger said. He even surprised even himself that he could come up with a clever story in such a short amount of time.

“Fascinating…..Then again I shouldn’t be surprised especially since you are a unicorn yourself.” Doctor Horse said while staring at this red orb with fascination.

“May I have it back now?”

“Oh of course Mr. Stinger here you go.” Doctor horse said as he passed over the red orb to him.

“Where is my bag?” Stinger asked politely as Doctor Horse pointed at and Stinger walked towards it and opened up a small round opening which was the size of the orb in his hooves and he placed inside of it and it locked tightly so no one could take it. But Doctor Horse just stood there shocked by what he had seen.

“So tell me Doc how did I get here?” Stinger asked.

“Oh...uh a mare brought you here, named Ms. Rarity I believe.”

“Can you send her my gratitude and I will find a way to repay you for all you have done for me.” Stinger said.

“Oh no need she and her friends all payed for you and asked for nothing in return.” Doctor horse said with a smile.

“Well then I guess I better be on my way and tell this Rarity that I said thanks.” Stinger said as he was about to walk out of the room until Doctor Horse said.

“Mr. Stinger why don’t you tell her yourself, she’s waiting outside to apologize for the accident and ask you few questions.”

Stinger only stared blankly as he put his bag on and walked off leaving the doctor behind who only wondered what was his deal. He walked down the hallway only to be stopped by a white mare with beautiful purple mane and three gemmed cutie mark.

“Are you okay Mr. Stinger ?” the White mare said with a smile and elegant voice which sounded like a royal.

“Yes I am but you can call me Stinger and I presume that you are Ms. Rarity.” Stinger said with a stern voice but not in a rude way.

“Yes I am and I would like to apologize for that terrible incident that happened, oh it was so dreadful I had to bring you here immediately….” Rarity was about to continue until she was interrupted Stinger.

“No need to apologize Miss. Rarity I came here to thank you for saving my life and for that I am grateful. I hate to cut our conversation short but I must be on my way.” Stinger said as he moved his hoof away from her and started to trot off.

“Wait where are you going?” Rarity said questionly.

“I am going to start my new life.” Stinger said as he continued on his way out the door.

Rarity was left curious about Stinger and the way he behaved, she expected him to be rude since he had all those scars and what he was wearing three days ago. But was met by a fine gentlecolt. Which made Rarity question him even more.

“What did he mean start a new life?, What is he hiding?” Rarity asked herself those questions over and over again.

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After leaving the hospital Stinger was for once enjoying his stay in Ponyville as he was walking through town. He enjoyed the scenery, taking it all in at once feeling the warmth of the sun and the fresh cooling air. But was soon interrupted by a pink pony pouncing all around.

“Hii’mPinkiePieyournewbutthatmeansIhavetothrowyouapartybecauseallnewponiesneedapartyandyournewsothatmeansPARTY’A....” Pinkie Pie was interrupted with a hoof in her mouth by Stinger.

“Please start over, but slow okay I did not understand most of what you just said and I would like direction to the nearest library. Stinger asked with a calm but stern voice.

“Okie dokie loki I’m Pinkie Pie and there isn’t a library but if you’re looking for reading theres a library inside of Twilight Sparkles Castle and do you like parties?” Pinkie Pie asked with a large grin plastered on her face which creeped out Stinger a bit but thought she was nice.

“Thank you and have a nice day Miss. Pie and no I don’t like parties that much and I don’t want one.” Stinger said as he walked past Pinkie Pie leaving her upset.

“No….pa... party.” Pinkie said to herself as she ran off leaving a trail of tears behind her.

Stinger had finally made it to the Castle of Twilight Sparkle and knocked on the door three times only to be greeted by a small young dragon and gave a blank expression.

“Hey, can I help you.”

“Yes is it okay that I can use your library. I need it for important research and apparently there isn’t a library which I find odd.” Stinger said.

“Well apparently you haven’t heard that this guy named Tirek blew up the old oak wood library, so now it’s currently being rebuilt.” the young drake said.

“Well thank you…..Um.” Stinger said.

“The names Spike.” He said as he led Stinger through the castle and into the library, where a young alicorn was sitting down reading a book.

“Hey Twilight this guy needs to use the library for some private research, is it okay that he could use it for a little while.” Spike said with a hint of sweat, already knowing what is yet to come for the young drake.

“Spike…..You know that this is the only time of the day I can get the library to myself….Oh hehe hi there...um I didn’t know you were there.” Twilight said sheepishly.

“It’s okay but if you wouldn’t mind I would like to the library to myself for a while.” Stinger said.

“Oh it’s no trouble at all, what do you need?” Twilight asked.

“Just some history books, basic body biology, and anything on basic magical arts.” Stinger said with a smile.

“That’s sounds like you’re going to be here awhile then huh.” Spike said.

“Maybe so or maybe not, I don’t plan on staying here for long.” Stinger said with a sly grin.

“Well good luck.” Spike said as he handed him a stack books on, Equestrian history, Local News archives, Equestrian Species and Biology, and Magic 101.  Stinger was pleased but needed more than this. He decided to wait until they left the room.

“Good now I can scan the books and I will have complete knowledge on how to use my damn horn.” Stinger thought to himself as his eyes began to glow. He looked through the book page by page with tremendous speed and already finished scanning both the Equestrian Species and Biology, and Equestrian History. Stinger took his time with the local news and Magic 101, but finished them both in less than ten minutes flat.

“Good I’m already finished with these books so now all I have to do is concentrate on basic levitation.”

Soon he was able to levitate all the books Spike got him and placed them in their proper places, but stinger wanted to more knowledge about this planet, so he started levitating Spell books, Military, World Geography, Equestrian Languages, and ect....Soon enough he had scanned through at least fifty books. Stinger soon heard hooves stop at the entrance and saw that it was Twilight standing there with her jaw hanging open, staring at Stinger and all of the books floating around. So he immediately levitated them back to their original shelves quickly, and calmly.

“How are you levitating that many books?...an..and put them away so quickly?” Twilight asked almost shouting.

“I guess I’m just talented with these kinds of things.” Stinger said with a cocky grin.

“I have to disagree with you on that, if it is your special talent then where’s your cutie mark?” Twilight asked.

“My...What?” Stinger said raising a brow

“You know a cutie mark...it’s what represents our special talent and what our destiny is.”

“There is no such thing as destiny, you make your own choices in life and you control it, not fate or any...Pony or anything, you can choose whatever you want to do in life and now that I think about it I don’t want a cutie mark if whatever it is has to be my destiny then I don’t want it.”

“But...but...but...but ARE YOU CRAZY?!!! A cutie mark is not just destiny it also Identifies who you are and what you were meant to be. What kind of pony doesn’t want their cutie mark?” Twilight said with anger and curiosity

“Well apparently I don’t and i’m happy with that choice.”

“But aren’t you worried?”

“About what? being judged because I don’t have a cutie mark, ha don’t make me laugh.”

“But….” Twilight was about to object to his notion but was interrupted.

“Forgive me for being rude but that is all a bunch of crap, why would I care if they make fun of me all because I don’t have a cutie mark. A cutie mark isn’t who you are it’s what you choose to be that counts not the mark. With a cutie mark or not I will make it just fine and have no regrets.”

“I guess if that doesn’t bother you then it shouldn’t bother me either, but just one last question.”

“Go a head Miss Sparkle.” Stinger said politely.

“Have you ever thought about getting a cutie mark?”

Stinger didn’t know how to respond to that because he never even knew what a cutie mark is until now and in his head he didn’t want to tell anyone of his origins. “Miss Sparkle I don’t need a cutie mark to tell me who I am because I already know who I am and with a town as beautiful as this I think I will be fine. I better be on my way, thank you for your time Miss Sparkle.” Stinger said as he walked out of the library and was on his way out of the castle.

Twilight then noticed he left his bag and tried to call him but was already out the door. So she ran as fast as she could levitating the bag with and as she made it out the front door. “Mr. Stinger you forgot your bag!!” Twilight shouted, trying to get his attention and it worked.

But what she was unprepared for was that his eyes narrowed on his bag and it started to shake and Twilight immediately dropped the bag and stared at it as it floated above the ground and flew onto Stingers back and reformed.

“Thank you!!” Stinger said as he started walking again leaving Twilight in a state of shock.

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It was a long day for Rarity and she was a bit stressed out and needed some time to relax. But the stallion she had just met is still puzzling to her and wanted answers immediately, but needed help from a certain yellow, shy pony.

“Fluttershy we need to talk immediately darling.” Rarity said as she knocked on Fluttershy’s door.

“Oh hi Rarity why are you here.”

“You remember that patient I accidently put in the hospital.” Rarity said with bit of embarrassment as she mentioned it.

“Yes I remember, is he okay now?” Fluttershy said quietly.

“Yes he is darling, but he is the complete opposite of what I thought of him.” Rarity said.

“What do you mean?” Fluttershy said curiously as she raised an eyebrow and tilted her head.

“What I mean is he was a gentlecolt and kind, the way I thought of him was a rude, uncouth, vile, brute. But after I officially met him, he thanked me but he said something quite odd.” Fluttershy just looked at Rarity more confused about this new stranger. “ He said something about starting a new life. What do you think Fluttershy?” Rarity asked.

“Probably just wants to….hmm...Actually I think I never heard anypony say that before.” Fluttershy said.

“Hmm... indeed, come along Fluttershy we must go and ask Twilight what that means this instant and what are his intentions.”

“But why? do you think something bad will happen?

“No time, now we must leave this instant.” Rarity said.

“Wait….My….animals.”Fluttershy said as she was being dragged from the tail and waved good bye to her animals and her special bunny.

As they left Fluttershy’s home they were on there way to Twilight’s castle, but only to find Twilight staring at Stinger as he walked into town. They immediately ran to Twilight and tried to get her to snap out of her trance of shock.

“Twilight….Twilight….are….you okay? Fluttershy said as she waved her hoof in front of her.

“Twilight darling you must snap out of it this instant we need to talk now. Rarity said but got no response but then she started smirking as she got a devilish idea. “TWILIGHT SOMEPONY IS GOING TO DESTROY ALL THE BOOKS IN THE WORLD!!!”

“WHAT!!!!” Twilight said as she dashed back to the castle and was gathering all the books while Rarity and even Fluttershy were laughing as they followed her inside. “No one will destroy these books without a fight.” Twilight said as she built a large, massive book fort in matter of minutes with all the books she had and wore a helmet ready to kill anypony that would dare try to take her books.

“Rarity that might have been funny but that was also mean.” Fluttershy said with a look of not anger but disappointment.

“Oh alright I will tell her before she loses her mind….Twilight we need to talk.” Rarity said.

“No...time….need...to….protect….books.” Twilight said panicking and was almost out of breath.

“Twilight you need to calm down it was just a little joke to try to get you to snap out of your little trance.” Rarity said.

“You what?” Twilight asked.

“Um...Twilight….we really need to talk with you.” Fluttershy said.

“Yes please, it’s about that stallion at the hospital.” Rarity said

“Oh you mean the one you put in there in the first place.” Twilight

“Yes….But he’s not at all what I expected him to be and you wouldn’t happen to know where he is would you?”

“Well I never actually saw him, so you mind telling me what he looks like?” Twilight asked

“Well he’s about Princess Luna’s height with red fur, a black mane with a scar on his chest and eye and he has…..

“No Cutie mark.” Twilight and Rarity said at the same time.

“You mean to tell me you saw him today.” Rarity said.

“Yes he came here asking to do some reading, but get this, he levitated over FIFTY BOOKS and he’s just a unicorn, I mean I could do it now, but he did it without even trying.

“Twilight, Twilight I think you're overreacting. Sure there isn’t any other unicorn out there I know that is just as good with magic then you. But a lot of unicorns can levitate more than fifty books with ease and I highly doubt he is good at magic then you Twilight.” Rarity said.

“Okay ,maybe I overreacted a little, but he did something….Extraordinary….I don’t know what he did but he did something that….I just can’t explain it….and that’s what I want to know.” Twilight said.

“Oh….well why….um….don’t we just ask…. him.” Fluttershy said nervously.

“I don’t think that’s going to work Fluttershy, he’ll probably just say no or he doesn’t know what we’re talking about and think we are crazy or something like that.” Twilight said as she was thinking of a way to get answers from Stinger without actually going near him in the process. “I know what we need to do, we need to spy on him and get data on what he’s up to, I don’t trust him.”

“I will have to agree with you on that Twilight but what if he, oh I don’t know figures out were spying on him? For all we know he’ll attack us or worse.”  Rarity said as she could only imagine the worse that could happen.

“All we can do is wait and find out. Besides I really need to know what books he has on him if he could make his bag do that.” Twilight said with a groan.

“Twilight what you should be worried about is if that stallion can be trusted to run amok and cause any trouble, not worrying about books.” Rarity said with a stern but elegant voice.

“You’re right but for now I think you should get going Rarity and you too Fluttershy.”

“Oh....yes I need to check on my animals and...OH NO I FORGOT TO FEED ANGLE….oh I hope he’s okay….” Fluttershy said as she stormed out of the room until the flapping of her wings got quieter until they heard a door slam.

SLAM!!!!

“Weeeell I better be on my way then, don’t want to keep Sweetie Belle waiting….By the way where is Spike?” Rarity asked.

“Oh he probably is asleep by now.”

“Okay thank you darling for taking the time to talk about our current situation, but I must be off Ta ta!!! Rarity said as she walked out the room without another word.

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“I wonder if this is too good to be true….I mean this place is so peaceful even if the folks here are a bit annoying, it’s certainly better than my old home.”Stinger said to himself

Stinger walked around Ponyville for a few hours and started noticing that it was dark soon and he had no where to sleep. He walked around a little more when he noticed a large tree near a pond and decided to rest for the next day to come. But what he didn’t know was that a certain mare was watching in the distance.

“What in the name of Celestia does he think he’s doing, I mean does he actually plan on sleeping under that filthy tree?” Rarity thought as she hid behind a bush. She decided not to watch another second and decided to move quietly until she stepped on a few twigs

Crack!!!

“Huh….Who’s there?” Stinger said as he got up and started to walk to the same bush Rarity was at.

End of Chapter.