Author's Note

So guess who got some of his inspiration back. That's right, J.J.Tolken.

In all seriousness, I'm back and ready to send out some chapters, such as this one.

Eternal Struggle

Thomas had followed shortly behind Starlight out of the kitchen and down the crystal hallway to a new door. Pushing it open starlight led him into the room, where it seemed to be a pool or some sort of bathing area. His head tilted in confusion from the sight that he was facing, before he was suddenly encased in Twilight's magical aura once more.

'Not again' Thomas thought, as he was pulled towards Twilight. "Starlight can you get me a pair of scissors please, I need them to remove Silver's clothing for his bath" Twilight inquired her friend, who was in the doorway just about to leave.

"Sure thing" Starlight replied with a peaceful smile before she left the room. 'I don't need anyone to bathe me, I'm a grown man' Thomas thought, as he floated there in the air thanks to Twilight. It took a moment but when Starlight returned she had brought the scissors with her.

"Thanks" Twilight said as she took the scissors out of Starlight's aura and replaced it with her own. Using the scissors she began cutting up his left sleeve, just like Rarity had done to him on his first day in Equestria. Obtaining only a little resistance from Thomas, Twilight had cut the sleeve all the way up to the neck hole. Where she then began pulling him out of his clothing, this was where she had the most trouble at.

Once she had finally removed his clothing from him, she dropped him into the pool of water and tossed his clothing into a clothes bin. Thomas jumped and wailed in pain, due to the intense heat of the bath water. Twilight grasp ahold of a bar of soap and began rubbing Thomas with the bar of soap.

Thomas sat there annoyed, as Twilight cleaned him by rubbing soap on his body and then washing the soap away with a bucket. 'How degrading, this truly is to be forcefully cleaned and by Twilight none the less' Thomas thought to himself, as Twilight finished rubbing him down with soap for a fifth time. "There, now after I'm done, I'll dry you off with a towel" Twilight informed, as she dipped the bucket into the once hot, but now warm water. Bringing it out she brought it over Thomas's head and poured it down onto his body, washing away the last of the soap suds from his body.

"Okay time to dry off" Twilight claim, as she pulled Thomas out of the water with her magic. She dropped him onto his feet, as she used the her magic to move a towel out from a nearby cabinet. She then began drying him off, unknowingly to her she was doing it a little rough than she should have.

After she dried Thomas off, Starlight returned from cleaning his clothes and adapting a few things to it. One of those things was a zipper at the back to remove his clothing easier for when Fluttershy has to give him a bath. Starlight used her magic to pick up Thomas and slip his clothes on him zipping him up. "There now you smell a lot better" Twilight remarked, unable to see Thomas's stern face from underneath his mask.

"Now with that done, you can accompany me into town. I have a te... surprise in store for you" Twilight said, making Thomas raise and eyebrow of skepticism towards her comment. Twilight then summoned a collar and a leash around his neck, and then began dragging him out of the room.

Fluttershy's parent's house

Fluttershy was having a nice time with her family at the reunion. She and her family were gathered around eating together at the dining room table, trying to catch up on each other's life since the last time they met. She learned that her mother and father was planning a trip around Equestria, to visit famous sites and enjoy the natural beauty of Equestria. Her brother, Sea breeze was enjoying telling all about his new apartment and the small store he had opened up.

"... and now I'm planning to hire an assistant to help me manage the mane salon, to cut down on the waiting time and get more customers" Sea breeze exclaimed, happily receiving smiles from his family.

"Well that's great son, so Fluttershy what's new down in Ponyvile?" her father asked, both interested and wanting to change the attention to his daughter. Fluttershy finished chewing what was left in her mouth before speaking.

"Oh, um... I recently got a pet human, his name is Silver" Fluttershy expressed with a warm smile, resting on her muzzle. Upon hearing this the family was intrigued. Obviously because most pegasi of Cloudsdale, never seen one before. Not to mention that humans can't fly, so they're not suitable pets there.

"Oh, is this Silver of yours behaving calmly?" asked her mother, with worry in her eyes. Most pegasi from Cloudsdale believe humans, were very aggressive and could be easily set off by the slightest thing.

"Oh, yes he is the calmest of all that I have seen. However he did try to hit me the other day, which I feel is partially my fault since I did surprised him" Fluttershy explained, remembering what happen that day. Still trying to figure out something that Silver had done, changed her view on humans or at least Silver.

"Well I for one would love to meet him, who knows I might give him a haircut" Seabreeze cut in, causing their mother to roll her eyes. "Well that is if its fine with you sis" Sebreeze continued, making puppy dog eyes to his sister.

"Well um, you cant because of his current situation at hoof. He has a enchanted mask, that makes it impossible to remove. We tried many times already to remove it from him, even Twilight can't undo the spell. She got as far as teleporting the mask away, but that took Silver along with it" Fluttershy explained, remembering how Twilight's spell sent Silver into the future and at the same time teleporting him just over the lake luckily.

"Well that is a pickle, I hope you can find somepony that can remove it dear" her father expressed, taking another bite of his meal.

There was a continued silence in the room, for a short while before her grandfather continued the conversation. "Well, I remember back in my day. We had humans enlisted into the guard to find the criminal 'horn-heads' as we called them, that were using magic to disguise themselves. Humans have a knack for spotting magic that changes ones looks, anyways those humans had their heads encased with helmets to make them look more fierce. I think that your Silver might be one of those humans" her grandfather, claimed as he recalled his old guard days looking for criminal unicorns. Everypony wore disbelief on their muzzles, all except for Fluttershy; who thought it might be plausible.

Ponyvile

Thomas POV

Twilight led me outside of town, a little further than Fluttershy's cottage to an apple farm. There were rows upon rows of apple trees, with a big red and white barn and a nice sweet farm house next to it. Then I caught glimpse of a few humans inside of the barn, as we approached.

Applejack had just came out of the barn with an empty bucket. Upon seeing us she puts the bucket down, and greets Twilight, "Howdy Twi, Silver. So ah' see that ya' made it, y'all ready?" Applejack inquired, with a smile across her muzzle. 'I have a bad feeling that I'm not going to like this surprise, am I?'

"Lead the way" Twilight said, as she followed Applejack into the barn. It was unnerving to see what was in there, on both sides of the barn were six feet by six foot cages with humans stored in them. On one side of the barn there were females the other cages were males. These humans were around the age of ten through eighteen, which reminded that humans here are and I quote short-lived. That meant they don't live to their forties only early twenties and if you're lucky mid twenties.

All the males instantly began growling and snarling at me as soon as they spotted me, they were territorial. Then again all of mankind are when it comes down to it. The females however took an interest in me, like that of a dog and a brand new bone. Lets just say I didn't feel comfortable here and I wanted out anyway possible.

Applejack lead Twilight and me to an empty larger part of the barn to some type of room. There were nothing in here except for some straw that littered the floor providing some cushion for my feet. Twilight removed the collar and closed door leaving me inside the room. 'What are you up to, Twilight?'

After waiting a moment the other door from across the room, opened to reveal one of the female humans, about the age of eighteen. She from what I notice she was staring at me with some instinctive questionable glances. She took a few steps closer towards me, before stopping and relooking me over.

She reached out her hand showing me her palm, at first I was confused by this gesture. Then it hit me this was the human symbol for finding a mate. That two individuals would place their hands together and if they both clutched their palms they would... attempt procreation.

Flattered but I'm married, or at least that's what I remember. However I had to do the instinctive symbol and just not clutch her hand. I placed my palm up against hers, which felt kind of tingly. As I look into her eyes, I noticed they widen and was focusing on our hands. That was when I felt her remove her hand, as she looked up at me in fear. She fell back and quickly dashed towards the exit.

It was like she had seen a ghost or God himself. However it doesn't explain why she didn't finish the mating process, which didn't bother me really; unless this means I'm ugly or something. "Aww... I was hoping to see if they would make a foal" Applejack claimed, from the catwalk above the room with Twilight. 'They were watching me the whole time, talk about perverted women'.

"Wanna try another one?" Twilight inquired, looking at Applejack innocently with a notepad and a quill. 'Yeah, that sounds about right. A test that Twilight had set up with Applejack, probably to get me to bred with other humans.

So I can assume that Applejack is a human breeder'. "Sure thing, first let me put Cynthia back in her cage" Applejack said before disappearing from my sight.

Just like the time with Cynthia, all the other females of Applejack's farm had the same interaction. As soon as I had made physical contact they were scared off. 'Perhaps they could tell a difference between me and their kind?' I was right about Applejack being a human breeder, however it was a small income source apparently and her apples were her family's main source of income.

So Applejack asked Twilight to bring me over to see if she could breed me with one of her humans. "Thanks for trying Surgarcube. I just don't know what caused them to act like that" Applejack tried to explain, as Twilight led me out of the barn.

"No problem... Ooh, Before I forget" Twilight said, before I stopped paying attention to the both of them and started focusing on the human females. They were acting differently than when I first arrive. They seemed more interesting towards their hands and even objects inside their cages.

'Its like they're babies aware of their surroundings for the first time in their life. No what am I saying, this must be normal behavior for the humans on this world. Then again how would I know, I haven't been around humans really' Suddenly I felt a tug from my collar, causing me to follow Twilight back to town.

The rest of the afternoon was a normal day for me, Twilight had to help Starlight with one of her friendship lessons. Which she had made Spike watch over me. Luckily for me that meant he was going to read one of his comics and eat gems. Which gave me plenty of time to learn about Equestrian History and the Union of five.

On what I presume is Sunday, I continued reading the book till Starlight took me out for a walk around the neighborhood. I got to meet many new ponies during the walk, one of which was a show pony as they called it, named Trixie. She is apparently a friend of Starlight. She has some bad relations with other citizens in Ponyvile however, I wonder why... it can wait for another day.

After the walk I returned to Twilight's castle to find Fluttershy waiting there for me. She greeted me with a hug, and took me back to her cottage.

????

An eerie silence fills the air of the gray sparkling night sky, that covered the cold lifeless mist that blanked the unknown surface. Where two beings were duking it out against each other, one by one they would shoot out powerful bursts of energy. While both trying to doge the others.

One was a being dressed in a black with only his crimson face and his crimson hands standing out. His face was a red melted like version of a human face, with a blood red liquid flowing out of where his eyes would be and floated away; like it was in the emptiness of space. He wore a twisted smile across his face and when he shot at the other, he would release strait forward a raged filled blast.

The other was one that wore the mask of mystery, as it's face was covered by silver light that illuminated his surroundings. His silver hands released a similar beam, however it was moved at a slower pace and didn't move in a strait line. Instead it moved like liquid, flowing towards it's target before being blasted by the red man.

"So... tell me Light, do you honestly think you can win? That somehow you would be able to prevent me from finishing what I started, all those years ago?" the red faced man growled, as he send forward his beams of rage. Light leaned to his right and with tilting his head barely dogging the attack, before returning fire.

The red faced man leaped upwards and began floating as the slow, yet liquid like attack followed him closely till they were blasted by the red faced man. "Honestly I thought you would say something by now we've been at this for how long now and you haven't made a comeback. You're not trying to ignore me now are you?" he inquired, sending another blast towards him.

This time however Light didn't try to dodge the blast instead he reached out and took hold of the beam of rage and turned it around sending it back towards the other. Who fired another blast from his hand, which on impact made an explosion making both opponents to stop I their tracks."Your reasoning is flawed and irrational. I am the stronger one here, Crimson. You will not finish what you have started back on earth, I'll see to that" Light said in his calm, yet demanding tone.

Crimson put a hand to his face and began chuckling to himself. "Do you honestly believe that?" Crmison asked with a deformed smile. Light stood there not quite sure what he meant, nor how to respond. "Ha you do, wow. This is just to good to be true, honestly I thought you would see it by now" he said as suddenly a crimson chain wrapped around Light's left wrist.

Light tried to blast the chains off of him, however he was not able to do so. Then out from the mist more chains started grasping their hold around Light, restraining every inch of his movement. Light was for the first time since he could remember unable to free himself from Crimsons control. "Let me guess, how?" Crimson inquired before chuckling to himself.

"It's easy really, its like you said. As Thomas remembers more of his past the stronger the both of us become and I get stronger first. All I have to do now is wait for him to remember one more thing and then I'm in charge. Oh, don't worry. I'll end the worm once I have complete control, just so I don't have to worry about you coming back. Then... well you can guess what, I'll do to the humans next and as for these other sentient beings; I guess they can share the same fate" Crimson explained, clinching his hand into a fist.

"I will stop you, that I know" Light spat back, as his silver light around his face started to fade away. Crimson laughs walking away from Light, as he disappears from within the mist.

Just Outside of Fluttershy's cottage

It has been a month now and Fluttershy and her friends has been planning something called 'the Grand Galloping Gala'. Probably some party at this Canterlot, not sure if it is a city or a building. Then again I don't care, or should I say I don't feel too good to care. Lately I've been feeling off, its not just me who noticed this even Fluttershy sees it.

Part of me believes that, I've gone mad and that everything I see and hear is part of my shattered mind. It doesn't help that Light hasn't returned since, when he helped me return to Fluttershy. However I made up my mind, I'm telling Fluttershy about me assuming I can put my words in order. A week ago my voice returned however, I could only practice when Fluttershy was away and when she was sleeping.

"Silver are you ready for dinner?" Fluttershy asked, setting up plates. This is my chance to tell her, to no longer hide my true self.

"Y-yes, Fluttershy" the words escaped my mouth, causing her to stiffen and turn to face me; with her face wanting to now what she heard was right. "I'm ready, Fluttershy"

{Smash} 'Oh boy she dropped the plates and fainted, this wont end well'