This day started like a good day on Equestria, if it wasn’t because something went terribly wrong, Mane 6 came back from a mission, a failed mission and Mane 6 is missing somepony.
"Oh girls! I shouldn’t have let you go alone! “Said Celestia in a worried and sad tone
“But princess, you didn’t know he was this powerful!”Said twilight Sparkle with a begging voice
“But what happened!?”
“Well… we went after Obsidian, but all the royal guards and other ponies suddenly attack us! And they took applejack, the powerful spells of the unicorns made us retreat and…”
Celestia lifted a hoof in order to make twilight stop, she went to whisper something to one of her guards, first missing ponies and members of her royal guard, and second Obsidian tries to steal the elements of Harmony, now her own guards and ponies against her? This wasn’t the attack of a supernatural creature like discord or changelings, it was a powerful unicorn named Obsidian, and he had turn against all Equestrians by trying to steal the elements.
“Twilight gets the elements to safety, we won’t be needing them” said Celestia
“But princess, OBSIDIAN TOOK THE ELEMENST FROM US! The royal guards attack us; we didn’t see that coming so they easily took the elements! Applejack resisted so they took her and when they had our elements Obsidian ordered the royal guards to kill us! And the guards shot beams at us and the Pegasus ones charged at us, I didn’t know what to do and I had to save everypony AND I USE MY MAGIC TO TELEPORT THE GIRLS BACK TO PONYVILLE WITHOUT APPLEJACK AND NOW WE LOST EVERYTHING!!! Said twilight between sobs and she mumbled am sorry, am sorry, over and over to Celestia
Celestia stood next to twilight and consoled her with her right wing, the others Mane 6 members were silent, even pinkie pie couldn’t get smiles out of this situation, Celestia frowned at her in displeasure
“Cheer up girls, this problem will be solved, we will save applejack and we will get the elements back! But I am afraid I know other ponies more suitable for this mission, please meet me at the royal hall in about 30 minutes”
Mane 6 now 5 frowned at Celestia in confusion and fluttershy stopped crying to wonder what that was about
“Summon the hunters” said Celestia to one of her guards
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At the royal hall Celestia greeted mane 5; she stood next to the girls and waited…
The big doors of the hall opened and there was 2 Stallions, they looked organized, the Stallion of the right had a snow white coat (skin) and a long golden mane and tail, he was a Pegasus with wings very big for his average size, he had sky blue eyes, he was wearing blue goggles over his head and he had 2 packs hanging from his back, his cutie mark was a black eye mark with its black pupil, indeed a handsome Pegasus, the other pony looked young, he had a pale cream coat and a black mane, some strings from his mane were partially covering his face, he was an earth pony, he had blood-red eyes, he carried 2 packs in his back and something else, he carried what it look like a red pipe attached to a belt and he simply had it hanging in his back, it looked sophisticated and somehow magical, he also had a dagger hanging from his left pack, and his 2 flanks were clear, he had no cutie mark. Before Celestia could say something pinkie pie rushed at them
“HI! My name is pinkie pie and you are!? I know you came to help and…” she said while shaking the white Stallion left hoof very quickly and eyed the other Stallion with amusement, pinkie style
Celestia interrupted
“AHEM! My apologies hunters, she’s a little overenthusiastic”
“No problem princess, it was rude not to introduce ourselves from the beginning, I am Venolous Skygaze, member of the hunters, codename: Keen observer” he said this and he held Rarity’s hoof and kissed it “But you my lady can call me Gaze” said the white Stallion with a sweet and very formal voice, Rarity blushed and giggled, she liked gentlecolts
“I am Scopes, member of hunters, codename: Lethal vector” said the other Stallion with a young and cold voice, his face was serious and focused, he came only to do his duty, he looked like a colt of little words
Mane 5 flinched after hearing “lethal vector” they avoided looking at the pony without cutiemark
“Okay girls let me explain, this are members of hunters, the hunters is an organization based in training ponies for dangerous assignments, they were never needed because our current foes were powerful mystical creatures that could be only stopped with the power of the elements of harmony, this mission requires to stop some of my guards and without the elements you lack the power, Obsidian possesses the elements now and I can’t go because he left to the outskirts of Equestria, and leaving Equestria unprotected is too risky, more ponies could disappear, that’s why am sending this 2 gentlecolts, it’s the best option, any questions?” said Celestia
“What are those fancy apparatus they are carrying?” asked rainbowdash with a curious face while hovering over everypony
“Please let me explain you, this blue goggles in my head are called hunter visors, they are capable of zooming to great distances, tracking and use a thermal visor, this was created with the magic of powerful unicorns, and my partner Scopes owns this particularly dangerous item, is called hunter beam, a item capable of great harm, fires a beam just like the unicorns! Incinerating anything in its path, also made by unicorns, oh! And Scopes owns that dagger” Venolous said this to nopony in particular
“Why you need those for?” asked flutershy without even dreaming about looking at Scopes. Scopes ignored her question, he thought she looked weak and harmless, but she is suppose to be the pony that helped save Equestria twice
Celestia interrupted
“There’s no time to waste! Hunters you will travel north to the outskirts of Equestria, you are looking for Obsidian, a powerful evil unicorn, and your mission is to stop Obsidian, get the elements of harmony back, and save applejack an earth mare captured by my guards who stood against all equestrians, you shall leave whenever you please!” Celestia used his princess voice at full volume
“Wait… please save applejack, we need her back” said twilight, Rainbowdash, Rarity, Fluttershy and pinkie pie, they really feel guilty for what happened
Scopes and Venolous nodded and before they trotted out of the royal hall Venolous threw a kiss at Rarity and said goodbye, they were heading towards a cart pulled by royal Pegasus, before they got in, the princess told then one last thing:
“Remember you may be facing numerous enemies who used to be equestrians, stopping obsidian is the priority of the mission, with the elements he will try to become immortal just like me and Luna, if that happens his power will be greater than mine and he will easily rule Equestria, take whatever measures necessaries to stop Obsidian, I repeat whatever measures necessaries!”
The Stallions glance at each other and loudly said: “YES, YOU’RE MAJESTY”
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They were flying up high in the cart, Scopes was an earth pony but he didn’t fear the fall from the cart, the fall could easily kill him
“Tell me Scopes was not Lady Rarity just wonderful!”
“Save that stuff for yourself Gaze” said Scopes, he wasn’t mad, he likes Venolous as a friend, but he couldn’t care less about what Gaze felt for that unicorn
“Come on Scopes, you are a grown up! We have to talk about the ponies we like; you know that one pinkie pie had an eye on you!” Scopes blushed, but he composed immediately, the truth is that pinkie cared so much why Scopes just never smile in their short meeting
“All ponies hate me, you know it, and I don’t have a cutiemark, how can they like me?” Scopes didn’t like to talk about his cutiemark, unless it was to Venolous, he’s been his friend for many years, he was the pony he trusted the most…
“We will land here, over there are the outskirts, you’ll to travel on hoof” said one of the Pegasus leading the cart
Scopes and Venolous got down, and the royal Pegasus left immediately, they would reach out of Equestria, with no maps because no one made them, nopony cared about the land that’s wasn’t Equestria. They headed north, through a dense forest, Scopes was trotting his way to the forest and Venolous was flying just high enough to have a good view with his goggles
“See anything Gaze?”
“No, it is clear, but that cloud reminds me of Lady Rarity’s perfect skin!”
“Told you to keep that for yourself”
“It will not happen Scopes, wait! I see some ponies up ahead! One of them looks like a royal guard of Celestia!”
Up ahead were 2 ponies, a big unicorn and an earth mare standing up a hill, they both had shiny green malicious eyes, now out of the forest Scopes and Venolous went up ahead to meet with them to ask about Obsidian, try some diplomacy and if that didn’t work, they had more effective methods
Venolous was the first to meet them, at a safe distance, not too close in case the unicorn tried to make him levitate with his magic
“Hi?” said Venolous, hoping there wouldn’t be any violence
There was a short silence and the unicorn started casting some magic, his horn glowed red and a flame like the one a dragon came out of it, Venolous dodge and went flying right next to him to pick up the earth mare, which looked scared and with an empty look
“SCOPES, WE GOT HOSTILES” yelled Venolous while dropping the earth mare in a safer area away from the unicorn, Scopes galloped and pounced so fast he became a blurry shape, he landed next to Venolous ready to take the unicorn down, the unicorn fired another flame and Scopes easily dodge, he was agile like a feline
“DON’T MOVE” Shouted the earth mare
Scopes looked next to Venolous, the earth mare was holding the Pegasus with a headlock and he had a kitchen knife in his throat, the knife looked dull, but still was a knife
“Gaze! What the…”
Another flame came and Scopes dodge again
“DON’T MOVE” the earth mare was serious; she did a small cut in Venolous throat, just a warning. Scopes couldn’t obey, if he moved again she may kill Venolous and if he didn’t move he would get burned to death by the unicorn’s flames! He had little choices, but only one single option to save them both, he was holding his weapon, the hunter beam and he fired a line of magic that went through the earth mare’s head leaving a big burn mark and a hole big enough to see through it, she fell backwards hitting the ground with a loud noise, the unicorn seeing this retreated
“You ok Gaze?”
“Yes, but what kind of maniac was she? I mean… wait what happen to her eyes?
Scopes looked at the death pony, her eyes weren’t green anymore, they where yellow now and they look normal
“Scopes, SHE WAS HYPNOTIZED, she was being control! Oh dear, Celestia will not like this!”
Scopes Stared at the death pony, he was angry, he felt like a coward because he killed an innocent mare
“She attacks you and she didn’t even want to, who would do such a thing!?”
“I have never seen such mind control, such magic, this cannot be done by a normal pony and princess Celestia did mention Obsidian was a powerful unicorn, but this?”
“Only explanation we have Gaze, quick! We have to follow that unicorn before he vanishes, he may lead us to Obsidian!”
“Do not worry, I already put a tracker on him, I am quite hurt and it is getting dark, we better camp for the night and we can go after him tomorrow”
“Fine, I will watch for the night” Said Scopes, he leaped into a tree and into another till he got to highest branch and started watching form there. Venolous went back in the forest, he dropped next to a tree and put a few bandages around his neck, feeling much better he started resting.
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Venolous woke up feeling much better and immediately went flying, tracker ready to follow the unicorn. Scopes looked tired, he reached a pill with his hoof out of one of his packs, the pill read “No ZZZ” and he swallow it without water (what a badass 8D), Scopes immediately focused like when you get adrenaline and galloped towards where Venolous pointed, to the northeast.
They left the forest and went up a hill, more miles forward they were getting to a rocky land with lava freely flowing
“Now I understand why nopony ever leaves Equestria, the land here is awful!” Said Venolous
“Sure... See anything Gaze?”
“Well…there is a building up ahead, a big one, it is a castle?”
“You think Obsidian may be in that castle?”
“Let’s find out” Venolous flew up ahead. The castle was black made with crafted black bricks from the area and it had a big Iron Gate and 2 big towers with a window each one. Venolous hovered over the castle looking for any habitant in it; he found 1 unicorn marching in front of the gate. Scopes Galloped and got close to the front gate, keeping distance from the unicorn, the unicorn spotted Scopes and his horn glowed red, he launched a big fireball into the sky and it exploded with shiny colors (like a flare), then things got serious. The gate opened and 3 more unicorns came out of it, with 6 earth ponies and 5 Pegasus in all different colors came out of the towers, all the hostile ponies had shiny green eyes and some of them were Pegasus and unicorns’ guards of Celestia, Venolous flew like a thunder and stood next to Scopes.
They were surrounded, the earth ponies blocked their way back, the Pegasus covered the sky, and the unicorns stood in the Iron Gate getting closer to use their magic on them, Scopes and Venolous found themselves trapped, nowhere to go, Scopes could fight but they were too many to succeed fighting them and they were getting closer, first trotting now galloping and rushing at them
“SCOPES COVER YOUR EYES!” Venolous Shouted, Scopes did so and Venolous got a small white crystal ball out of his packs, he smashed it into the ground and there was huge blinding flash, Venolous held Scopes and flew away and at a very high speed, he dropped Scopes further back and readies themselves to fight the hostile ponies
“Scopes let us get into formation shall we?” Scopes obeyed and he lay down on the ground, back legs spread and held his weapon with both front hoofs to keep it steady. Scopes aimed for the most dangerous targets, the unicorns, Venolous flew at them to keep the attention on him and away from Scopes, Scopes fired a beam to one of the unicorns, he received the beam in his torso and fell down, one down, Scopes fired to another unicorn and it hit him in the horn, the unicorn was using magic at the moment and the space in front of him exploded with a blue cloud taking him down, 2 down. There were 2 unicorns left and they noticed what happened to the other 2, the horn of one of the unicorns started glowing red and a force field appeared around them, Scopes fired at the shield and his beam got deflected to where it came from, Scopes eyes widened and he stood up and jumped sideways, the pack he was carrying got hit and it burned on fire, Scopes drop it immediately
“Guess that option is out”
He saw the unicorns giving orders to the earth ponies and they pointed at him, Scopes saw Venolous flying away from the Hypnotized Pegasus and aimed at them, he fired and it hit a grey Pegasus in his wing, he fell to the ground and didn’t move. Scopes fired again to a yellow Pegasus, the Pegasus burst in flames and she fell on the lava.
The 6 earth ponies were galloping to where Scopes was and he decided he could take then out without killing then, they were just earth ponies. Scopes pounced to a red and huge earth pony with the green apple for cutiemark and connected his left back hoof on his skull, like a kick, the red pony fell to the ground unconscious, Scopes did the same with the other 5 ponies, their attempts to stomp on Scopes were pathetic, Scopes was too fast and too skilled at fighting for then, none of the earth ponies were guards of Celestia, just citizens. All earth ponies came down pretty easily; once he was done with then he threw his attention to the unicorns and the Pegasus.
The only ponies left were guards of Celestia, strong Stallions, combat Stallions. The 2 unicorns came closer with their red shield and they called for the Pegasus, the Pegasus landed next to then, one of the unicorns started casting a spell, his horn glowing white and the other unicorn use his magic to keep the shield and support his partner with more magic in order to make his spell stronger. The unicorn aimed his spell to the Pegasus and the Pegasus became invisible, Venolous and Scopes eyes widened
“I was not expecting that” said venolous
“You think you thermal visor will see then?”
“I deeply hope so” Saying this venolous put on his goggles, turned a wheel and the goggles flashed white
“I can see then! But the lava in the area ruins most of it, damn it! I will fly and try better angles” Venolous kicked himself from the ground, flying very fast, thunder like! He saw the Pegasus flying in formation and saw one of them going the direction to Scopes
“SCOPES AT YOUR 7 O’ CLOCK”
Scopes couldn’t take any chances, and he wouldn’t, he drew his dagger and held it with his teeth, crouched and pounced backwards where he heard the flapping of the wings, he hit something and fell to the ground with it, he pinned the invisible body and slashed at nothing with his dagger, the slashed flesh became visible and so did the Pegasus, his eyes went back to normal, no shiny green eyes anymore. Venolous was fighting the other 2 invisible Pegasus in the sky, unicorns with a shield and Pegasus invisible, Scopes couldn’t use his weapon, Venolous flew lower so Scopes could reach the other Pegasus, Venolous was a good fighter, but he couldn’t take the 2 Pegasus by himself, besides Scopes was the lethal vector, Venolous told the Pegasus locations constantly, but they kept flying around, Scopes crouched and pounced several times hitting nothing, until Venolous held Scopes and launched him to the direction of one of the Pegasus, Scopes grabbed the invisible body and applied a headlock, and sliced his wings till he made the Pegasus fall, Venolous flew to the other invisible Pegasus and kicked him, making him fall to the ground, Scopes saw the ground being hit by something, he galloped that way and finished the Pegasus.
Only 2 unicorns to go, the unicorns changed tactics, the red shield turned white, now being held by the other unicorn, there was another spell casting, horn glowing red and the glow became so intense it was difficult to see the unicorn. The unicorn aimed his Spell at Scopes and a lava flow came out of the rivers and went after Scopes, Scopes dodge it but the lava wasn’t flowing anymore, it was levitating! Scopes ran but he found himself surrounded by lava, Venolous gave Scopes a hoof and flew high, Scopes lifted himself to stand on his friend’s back, the powerful Pegasus could easily fly with Scopes in his back
“Scopes, shall we do the firebird?”
“Yeah lets rock!”
Venolous got something out of one of his packs, a black crystal ball and threw it to the unicorns shield, the ball did a small smoke cloud and the shield started to slowly fade, the smoke was draining the magic of the unicorns, Scopes jumped from Venolous back and landed very hard on one of the unicorns, drew his dagger and finish it quickly. The other unicorn took advantage of the moment and levitated Scopes with his magic, Scopes struggled and moved, it was useless, before the unicorn could toss Scopes into the lava Venolous landed on the unicorn incredibly fast, the ground exploded and there was sounds of the body and rocks shattering, both unicorns had their eyes back to normal
“Oh dear, what a messy mess!” Venolous said this while cleaning his hoofs with a tissue
“That was the last of then; all the earth ponies and one of the Pegasus are still alive, I’ll tide them up for their safety till we find a way to cure them”
“Ok, I just hope Obsidian is in the castle, that is the mission priority!”
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Scopes and Venolous passed through the Iron Gate and trotted their way in, the castle had a dining room, a dungeon and a big hall with a red rug, Scopes went down the dungeon and found a few cells, some open and some others closed, all of them empty, except for one, in a closed cell there was an orange mare with a blond mane and Venolous asked:
“Lady Applejack?”
“Yes and wait! You are not under control, are yo?”
“No, we are here to save you and stop Obsidian!”
“Who are you, and why would Celestia sent yo?”
“No time to explain, we need to get you out of there!”
Venolous analyzed the lock, it looked strong and somehow magical, Scopes did the logical, he kicked the lock with all his strength but the lock remained intact
“It’s useless; Obsidian locked me here with magic, only a unicorn can open the lock! Look yo gotta stop Obsidian; right now he’s using the elements to become more strong, he’s in a hall full with torches and a red rug…”
Scopes nodded and immediately galloped towards the hall, and then he found Obsidian
“Isn’t impressive what 4 unicorns from Celestia can do in a few days, this castle is quite a masterpiece of architecture!” said Obsidian
Scopes was silent
“I admit am quite impressed with your performance against my little army, but it’s all in vane, I already mastered the elements, I AM INMORTAL!” Obsidian was a dark grey unicorn with a red mane and black eyes, a sliced red moon as a cutimark, not surprising; he had a cocky smile and a mind to rule at any price
“Obsidian...you better give up or I won’t spare your life!”
Obsidian gave a step forward, Scopes gave one backwards, he had to keep his distance from his magic
“I was expecting twilight and her friends or even Celestia herself, but you? An earth pony? Celestia sent an Earth pony to stop me? HA! It seems she did not care for the missing ponies or for Applejack after all, NOW I AM IMMORTAL!”
“YOU KIDNAPPED DOES CITIZENS AND GUARDS FROM CELESTIA!?”
“Well yes I did, it couldn’t be possible without that spell I learned from the princess of the changelings in her visit to Canterlot, I just upgraded it a little so the ponies couldn’t resist it or remember their lives”
“YOU ARE A SON OF A BITCH” Scopes was yelling, full of rage
Obsidian chuckled, now laughing maniacally he used his magic to closed the door behind Scopes and remove the ceiling
“I WILL SHOW A PIECE OF MY POWER!”
His horn glowing green, Obsidian summoned rain and a thunder from the heavens, the thunder fell next to Scopes, Obsidian missed. Scopes held his weapon with one hoof so he could stand while using it, he fired a beam to Obsidian and Obsidian made a green force field, the beam got deflected to the open ceiling, Scopes didn’t have any way of hurting Obsidian now, Obsidian teleported right behind Scopes and made him levitate
“Don’t worry, I won’t kill you, you look very promising for just an earth pony, so I rather turn you”
Scopes Struggled, kicked, fight the magic, all in vane in a few seconds he would be Obsidian’s slave, Obsidian’s horn glowed green, casting the spell and suddenly Venolous came flying through the ceiling with Applejack and toss one of the black crystal ball in the shield of Obsidian, his Shield faded, and Scopes was free from his magic
“What the…WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME!?”
Scopes answered that by pouncing on Obsidian, dagger in teeth, Scopes did a big slice from Obsidian’s shoulder to his tail, then crouched and slice both back hoofs, Obsidian fell to the ground moaning in pain, Scopes pinned Obsidian and put his dagger in his throat
“Curse you, CURSE YOU, I AM IMMORTAL”
pplejack hurried while Obsidian was pinned and took the elements from him
“NOOOOO, YOU INFERIOR PO… AGH!”
Scopes gave Obsidian a warning with his dagger
“You can’t be immortal; Celestia reached immortality with the help of her sister Luna, yo can’t top that!” said applejack
Started Venolous
“Obsidian you have been defeated, surrender or we will not have mercy on you!”
Obsidian wasn’t immortal after all; he needed more power than just his to reach immortality, Obsidian chuckled and his horn glowed green with magic, Scopes slashed Obsidian’s throat, Obsidian had an opportunity to live and he trashed it, before dying Obsidian poked Scopes in the forehead with his horn, there was a small green spark and Obsidian said his last words:
“Kill them both and everypony in Equestria” Obsidian was gone
Scopes turned around slowly; his eyes now were shiny and green and malicious, Venolous remembered what Obsidian said and immediately grabbed applejack and kicked himself from the ground heading to the open ceiling, Scopes pounced at him but missed, Venolous flew as fast as he could, Scopes was firing at his friend with his weapon, the first beam missed, but the second didn’t miss, it hit Venolous in his left wing and part of his torso, he screamed softly and used his other wing to stabilize and have a decent land with applejack, they landed up a hill, it would take time for Scopes to reached there.
“Lady applejack! Please, take the elements and head to Celestia as fast as you can!”
“I’m not leaving yo feathers over here”
“You must hurry, I am badly hurt, I cannot fly and I would just slow you down! PLEASE LEAVE”
“Now yo listen to me fancy goggles, am not leaving you, Obsidian said I couldn’t be hypnotized cuz the power of my element was still inside me, he also feared I could break his mind control spell so he lock me up, what am gonna do is turn yo friend back to normal”
“WHAT!” Venolous felt a sting of pain when he yelled so he decided to talk softly “Lady Applejack, this is too risky! How could you…”
“Trust me; do I look like I would lie?” Applejack said this while pointing at her element in her neck; her element was honesty after all
Suddenly Scopes showed up, Dagger in teeth, Applejack ready she stared at Scopes and fixed her hat (God how I love her hat) Scopes pounced at her faster than he ever done and Applejack focused, a yellow shine and an orange wave came out of her element, Scopes went to normal in midair, still heading towards applejack he hit her and they both rolled on the ground for a few meters.
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“What happened?” asked Scopes confused “last thing I remember is killing Obsidian then I… GAZE!” Scopes stared worried at his downed partner
“Do not worry Scopes, you just burned my wing and little bit of my torso, I should be fine once a doctor put his hooves on me”
“WHAT HAPPENED” yelled Scopes and he went to check on applejack
“Don’t worry, don’t worry, I just got a scratch from yo jerky tackle”
Applejack was fine, Venolous will live and Scopes is back to normal, Venolous explained how he broke the magical lock with one of the smoke balls and applejack kicked the lock off and that Obsidian took control of Scopes and Applejack put him back to normal
“Thanks… lady Applejack”
“Just call me AJ ’kay? Anyhow I believe the mission is complete, we stopped Obsidian, took the elements back and save Equestria again!”
“And save you” added Scopes, Applejack gave Scopes a big smile
Applejack bandaged Venolous and they were heading back to Equestria now, Applejack used her element to cure the other hypnotized ponies and the Pegasus in the way back, all of them had tired and confused looks, Big Mac was among them
“BIG MAC! What in tarnation yo are doing over here!?”
Big Mac now with a black eye and with his natural green eyes raised both shoulders, expressing he had no idea and probably didn’t care
Everypony reached Canterlot, it was closer, some heading to their houses and others to pass the night and return to their houses in Ponyville next morning. Applejack went to Celestia’s palace to meet with the girls
“Howdie”
“APPLEJACK!” mane 5 now 6 with Celestia shouted at unison and went to hug their friend
“We missed you so much, and I missed you too Gaze” said Rarity and Venolous nodded, hiding his wounds
“Oh I know you girls missed me and look we brought the elements back!”
“What about Obsidian” asked twilight
“He has been stop, forever” Said Venolous
Twilight nodded understanding. Fluttershy gave another big hug to applejack, eyes wet, clearly she was always so worried for her “I am glad you are back Applejack”
“Am also glad you made it AJ” said Rainbowdash with a playful tone
Started Celestia
“Well, job nicely done hunters”
Venolous explained every detail of how the mission developed to Celestia
“I see, please keep the mission details between you and me, now we have a ceremony to celebrate!” said Celestia with a cheerful tone
There was a ceremony in honor of Scopes and Venolous, many citizens of Canterlot assisted to the ceremony to see the 2 Stallions saviors of Equestria. Celestia and Princess Luna granted the sun goddess medal to Venolous and the moon goddess medal to Scopes, he kept a serious face all the time, Everypony cried out the stallion’s names and Pinkie pie couldn’t contain herself and gasped:
“ADGAYVHAV, APPLEJACKYOUAREBACKWAITIWILLTELLEVERYPONYWEHAVETOMAKEAPARTY!!”
Mane 6 went back to ponyville and Pinkie pie dragged Venolous and Scopes for the party and in a few seconds the party was on at the sugarcube corner and everypony was invited, Pinkie got Vinyl Scratch out of a closet and she played with very loud music with her DJ booth, drinks and cakes were already everywhere, Big Mac came carrying a cart full of apple cider, Venolous alongside with Scopes were looking away from the party
“Look Scopes there is apple cider! I will go and take some, and of course I will get to know lady Rarity a little more, if you know what I mean” Said Venolous with a grin and joined the crowd
“Have fun Gaze” Scopes wasn’t planning to join the party at all
Scopes was lonely, avoiding everypony due to his condition, being a grown Stallion without a cutiemark was unheard of, and unforgivable he thought to himself. Why did he exist? He asked to himself
Pinkie pie interrupted his thoughts
“Hey Scopes, coming to the party?”
No answer
“Do you ever smile? Why so serious?”
Scopes kept ignoring her
“Do you want apple cider?”
“Please pinkie, leave me alone, am fine”
“Is it because of your cutiemark?” pinkie asked
“WHAT CUTIEMARK!?” Scopes exploded “CLEARLY I DON’T OWN A CUTIEMARK! WHY YOU WANT MAKE FUN OF ME ABOUT IT!?”
Pinkie was silent till Scopes calmed down
“Look it doesn’t really matter”
“Yes it does” said Scopes sounding irrational
“The cutiemarks are fun marks of who we are, but that doesn’t mean we need them to be an important somepony, you are you and no cutiemark can change that!”
“But…”
“No buts, you are a very special pony, you save applejack and Equestria and everypony loves you, regardless of your blank flank”
Scopes had no words for her, just a face, a particular face pinkie loved to see in everypony
“Now, would you take some apple cider and cupcakes at the party!?”
Scopes nodded and gave pinkie pie one big smile.
The end
