WAY Out of place

I only stared up at her. I couldn't think, speak, or move. I only sat there mouth agape at her sight. She was beautiful and intimidating from her size.

"Is there something the matter?" She asked looking at me curiously.

My mind finally focused. "How...am I even here?" I asked.

"I brought you here." She answered simply.

"But how?"

"Magic." She said with the same simple tone. "The same spell that Twilight used to gain access to your world." She explained. "Though in reverse."

"Wait what?" I asked my mouth opening back up.

"I finally found the spell that sent Twilight to the world you live in. I still don't understand why she simply couldn't have come back." She said looking off. "Unless of coarse, she didn't want to."

I settled and stared at the floor. "She wanted to, but she couldn't use magic."

"What do you mean?" Celestia asked. "How could she not? She's a very gifted Unicorn, why not?"

"Because she wasn't a pony." I said with growing frustration. "And I wasn't either."

"If you weren't then how do you know of what I and you are? For that, how would you know she was a Unicorn?" She asked.

"It's a very long ass story." I said flatly.

She sat there quietly looking at me, eyes closed, deep in thought. They opened and she let out a soft breath. "I want to know everything."

I sighed and thought for a moment myself, trying to figure out where I should start.

"And then I was here." I said after telling only the bare minimum. The bare minimum being; I found her, tried to help her, did shit, and let her stay with me for the while. So yeah, bare minimum.

She looked at me with a rather serious face then looked off. "I know you're lying."

My eyes widened and my heart beat a little faster. "What?"

"You're lying, I can tell." She said simply. "There's more to it, much more. Isn't there?"

I shook my head.

She smirked and looked down to me. "You're making it a little too easy you know."

I looked at her seriously. "I told what's happened and all that you either need or want to know. If I did tell you then you'd wish I hadn't."

"I think I can be the judge of what I should and shouldn't know." She scoffed.

"I'm not saying that you shouldn't know, I'm saying you wouldn't want to know it."

"I still want to know, good or bad, an entire two weeks have passed since she disappeared. I still want to know everything you have to tell me."

"This is your last chance." I warned.

"Speak. I want to hear this." She said growing impatient.

"Alright," I said taking a breath. "...I fucked her brains out..."

To the princess of Equestria I said that. Right there to her, in front of her. She held wide magenta eyes, staring at me in astonishment.

"I love her alright. I don't understand it myself but I do. I found her, I helped her out and I just felt something. It wasn't intentional, us being together, not the shagging. That was intentional. But I love her. I want to spend my life with her. I didn't want to tell you that." I said looking down to the alabaster floor. "I didn't want you to be upset and send me off or never let her see me again."

She took a few shambling steps to me and sat down beside me. One of her unfurled wings wrapped around me. "You truly love her?" She asked. "With every part of your being?"

I quietly nodded.

Her golden clad hoof reached to me and raised my chin to to look at her. She held a warm smile and knowing eyes. "Then you have my blessing." She said softly.

I smiled and looking up to her thankfully. "You mean it?" She nodded and I smiled softly. "Where is she?" I asked. "For that fact, where are my friends and brother."

"Twilight and the smaller pony that looks a lot like you are at Twilight's library down in Ponyvill." She answered. "As for your friends, the Mule and Pegasus are over there." She said looking to a side of the room with a fireplace and a few scattered pillows.

"Well that's a reli--wait. Mule and Pegasus?" I asked looking at her confused.

"Your friends the Mule and the Pegasus." She said simply. "They were brought here too when the spell was cast." She explained. "It was an accident of sorts being you all so nearby each other. You all were effected and brought here. They, as you explained like Twilight had, became a form suitable to this world. Which respectively was both a Mule and Pegasus."

"Well that's strange." I said. "Why a Mule and Pegasus?" I asked.

"Well your one friend must have been in ways similar to a Mule and the other like a Pegasus. Likely why you're a Unicorn. Actually I would like to know something. How do you know of what I and everyone else is?" She asked.

"Because in my world we watch you, some people do anyway. That's why I found it hard to believe she was actually Twilight Sparkle." I said closing my eyes.

"What do you mean you watch us?" She asked confused. "You watch our every movement?" She asked becoming suspicious.

"No not like that. How should I put this. Magic, we watch you with magic." I stated, finding this moment unbelievably ridiculous. "Little kids, primarily girls, watch you. It's kind of a message sort of thing. Friendship and kindness."

"Then just why would you watch us?" She asked dropping suspicion for more confusion.

"I don't know, I saw a little bit of it once and kind of liked it. It's weird alright, I'm weird."

She seemed to think for a moment and looked at me seriously. "It is...disturbing to hear such a thing. Are they always watching?" She asked.

"No not always. Only when something important is going on. A lesson in friendship and stuff." I answered.

Celestia closed her eyes deep in thought, quietly saying only a few words. "I see."

I started to think myself. "Things aren't that bad right now. Sure they got dragged along but, I'm here now. Twilight's home now and she's okay. That's all that really matters."

"It might take some time but if you want, I can send you home." Celestia said walking to the cushioned zone by the fireplace. "Them as well." She said looking down at the Mule and Pegasus that used to be Jeremy and Justin.

I looked up to her. "If Kian is with Twilight then why are we here?" I asked.

She looked at me seriously. "Because I could sense something, something different about you three than him. Something darker, especially in you."

I felt my heart sink at that and looked at her. "Then why are we here?" I asked trying to keep composure.

"I wanted to find something out. A hunch." She said walking over to me. "I've already had a very brief chat with your friends. The Mule kept referring to something called peyote and saying things aloud to himself. The other simply passed out." She said looking back to them. "I had yet to gain any information I had desired until you finally came around. I still have things I need to know. I may just have to take gaining such information into my own hooves." She said coming closer to me. "I can feel it in you, the darkness, you the most. I can sense something about you. Great anger and pain, suffering, fear. Not fear of something or someone you know, fear of yourself. You are scared of something about yourself aren't you?" She asked already knowing the answer. "You fear you may hurt someone; Twilight."

I only looked up to her solemnly.

"If you're to see her then I must know what. For hers and your safety, I must know." Celestia stated.

I looked at the ground sadly. "I can't, I just...can't."

"If you refuse to tell me then I must delve into your mind. I must know." She said as her horn glowed a mixture of colors.

"Wait." I said. She only looked down to me, her horn holding it shimmer. "If you poke around inside my head, promise you will still let me be with Twilight, no matter what you see. I need to have your word. I need to." I said with a grim expression.

She nodded and her horn grew brighter. I started feeling light headed and steadied myself, feeling as though I would lose balance. Her eyes were closed and her face held changing expressions. I didn't know what she was seeing, but I knew it must have been bad. She had a frown that grew sadder and sadder the more time she looked through. Her horn stopped and she opened her eyes. "You my little pony have been through far too much for a lifetime." She said sadly. "You hold yourself for so much. And you don't want any of these things to hurt Twilight. You haven't told her any of this?" She asked.

I only shook my head, feeling a lot more focused.

"You may still see Twilight." She said softly. "But I must do something first."

The fleeting moment of relief ended and I looked at her grimly.

"I can feel an evil in you. The darkness I sense could consume you, like it has before. If you're to be with Twilight, then I must relieve you of this evil. And you must promise never to do something as horrid as you have in this world. Otherwise I may have to take a drastic measure."

I received the message. I looked at her gravely. "How?"

Before I could receive an answer she leaned down and touched her horn to mine. I felt something sweep through me, a wave of white. My head throbbed and pounded in agony. I couldn't move, say, or see anything. It all just hurt. I felt weak, sick almost. Just as sudden as it started it stopped. Her horn moved away from mine and something came with it. A shadowy cloud hovered around her horn, shrinking in size yet growing darker. I only looked at it with widened eyes. I felt lighter, like I had a week ago. Everything was gone, but really gone. I had no feeling of remorse, I felt almost clean.

The cloud dissipated and she looked down to me. "I've taken it. Taken all that you had from you. You my little pony are free, of your fear, your pain, all that had been there is gone." She said calmly.

I felt relief and a faint smile grew over my face. "Thank you princess."

"If you would like me to, I can send you to Twilight's now." She offered.

"Could you?" I asked accepting the offer. "Oh wait, and one more thing before you do, whatever, could you make sure a bottle of wine is sent to Twilight's? I wanted this night to be something special for us so I went and got one, but I got pulled here before then."

She smiled and nodded, her horn regaining the multicolored shimmer. "And don't worry about your friends. When they awaken I will send them too. Oh and I'll find them a proper place to reside for the time being. I know Twilight would be happy to have you stay with her."

Before I could say anything I noticed something alarming. Behind her, not too far away was a Pegasus. A Pegasus with off putting features. His wings were different than normal wings, thin and sharp. His ears were pointed and his eyes had a deep redness to them. His coat was a grey with darker stripe-like markings and his mane was a wind blown grey with red tips. He had small horns above his ears. He held an eery grin and leered at me and Celestia. With a flash and a strange magical sound I was in the library.

I shook my head, thinking I was just seeing things and looked around myself at the shelves of books. I could hear soft crying from somewhere. I spotted a small staircase and walked to it. My hooves making a clopping sound on the wood floor. I trotted up the stairs and into a bedroom. Atop the bed was a smaller lavender Unicorn with a navy mane and pink and purple highlight stripes through it. I hoped she could be able to tell it was me. She sobbed softly into the pillow. "Twilight?" I asked.

She looked over to me, her face wet with tears. Her sad face shifted into happiness and she jumped from her bed. She sprinted to me and hugged, knocking me back. She could tell it was me alright. She hugged tightly and nuzzled her face into my shoulder. I hugged back tightly and could feel some of her dampness on my neck. I stroked my hoof along the back of her head, through her mane. "I was so worried."

"I know, I know." I cooed. "I'm here now and everything is going to be alright." She lifted her face from my shoulder and smiled to me. I moved my hoof to her face and wiped some of the tears from the damp coat of her cheek. I smiled and held her close. Our muzzle's came close and we kissed, holding it and breathing together. We split and shared a smile, our nose's pressed together and looked at each other happily. "Welcome home Twilight."

She looked at my foreleg and saw that I still had the artwork. She smiled and buried her head into my shoulder. "Welcome home." She said softly.

The large door creaked open and a dark blue figure that looked like the night itself walked through the doorway into the room. "You wanted to see me Tia?" Luna asked.

"Woona, I'm going to need you to keep an eye on somepony for me."