Titan of Prey: The Beginning.
Chapter 6: the confrontation.
Previous ChapterI had arrived back home with Scootaloo and Starburst along with me. “Hey Bon-Bon.” I called out.
“Yeah, Lyra?”
“Can I talk to you… alone?” she nodded, and led me up to our room. When we got there I sat on the bed, glared at her and pull out the small spying device that used to be in Star’s room. “Care to explain, Bon-Bon, or is that even your real name?” she frowned, her ears drooping in guilt
“I-it's not….” She admitted guiltily.
“Tell me everything… no more lies, this is… Bo-... ma’am,” I saw her wince at that. “I wouldn’t have cared if you were a spy, or that you had some major, monster-hunting Squad that thought pretending to be Filly Scouts selling cookies was a good disguise. I wouldn’t have cared that Bon-Bon isn’t your name and I would’ve kept it secret, I would Pinkie Promise on it. What hurts is… I didn’t get the truth from you. You kept me in the dark the entire time, keeping secrets of who you are while in a relationship with me! I had to find out the truth from your friends and finding this spy bug in our own son’s room! I thought you loved me! ...but hey, it’s clear you’re good at lying to me about other things too.” she started crying, and trotted off as I finished.
“That was just too far, Lyra.” Alexis chimed in.
“Is it? We have been together for 10 years! And I knew her as a friend when I was 6! She’s been with me for so long and we made such fond memories, and now I’ve learned that it all started as a cover! But the worst part, the only bad part about all of it, was that she took my first time with a fake name built around a fake life! One she never told me about!” Suddenly, I slapped myself….
“GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF! Bon-bon loves you! She wouldn't be this devastated if it was all a cover! You said it yourself! WHEN. YOU. WERE. 6! Spying may be her job, but you wanna know WHY she did that?! Humankind are inherently dangerous and violent! She probably bugged Starburst's room to make sure he didn't end up hurting someone or himself! Hell! It could've just been a BABY MONITOR she left in there!” she sighed. “I understand your being hurt, but are you going to push away the mare you love because she couldn't tell you about her job? Are You?”
“I know it wasn’t a baby monitor, if it was, she would’ve told me, and ponies and people learn from how they’re raised, not from what species they are, and that’s just it, I know nothing about who she truly is! Where she’s from or who her family is! She. told. Me. Nothing! We made LOVE and she told me nothing! You cannot understand what it feels like to be so close to somepony and then learn that they wear a mask. And it’s not because of the lie, it’s because I didn’t learn it from her, all those chances, all those moments and in the end she didn’t care for me enough to tell me anything. To tell me why every night she comes home covered in claw-marks, to tell me why Celestia is calling her to Canterlot to ‘clean out Philomena’s cage’, never having trust in me to tell me why the Guard listened to her or how she got tickets to the Gala… Alexis I would’ve stayed with her even if she was some Changeling infiltrator sent to drain me of all my love… the problem is that if it was that, I would want her to tell me, not find out on my own and learn that she never trusted me to begin with.”
“She probably didn't want you to worry! Or maybe she was ordered not to tell you…”
“I’m sorry, but do you see a mare like Princess Celestia, the benevolent motherly figure of Equestria, telling somepony to keep a secret from the pony they sleep with? And what’s going to worry me more? The fact that she’s going out on super dangerous mission she’s trained and paid for, or the fact that one day a Guard will come to my house and tell me my special somepony has been killed brutally by some evil villain and I’ll never know why?” she sighed
“you’re right.. but are you still going to push away the mare that loves you?”
“I… I don’t know… I just need time to think… and I want her to tell me the whole truth… I need this closure.”
“she’s on the move for the train station, Lyra.” I get up and rush out to get her, only to find she's already getting on the train, but Rainbow is there.. at which point I remember I left the kids back at the house.
“Hey, Lyra, what's the rush?” Rainbow asked, looking a bit worried for me.
“Rainbow! I don’t have time to explain, please go to my house and watch over Star and Scoots, okay? Thanks!” I continued on, and found her sitting alone on the train, softly crying, and I sit next to her. “Hey… this seat taken?” when she turned to see me, her crying intensified.
“I-I didn't w-want to worry you..”
“And what? Me never knowing what happens to you doesn’t worry me more?”
“I.. s-sorry.. my real name is s-sweetie drops… but I… I prefer Bon-bon..”
I smile “thank you… now first, I want you to tell me all the stuff you’ve hidden from me… then you’re gonna request for Celestia to put me on your team.”
“W-what..?”
“Lyra, doing such without at least some form of armor and equipment is suicide!” Alexis chimed in.
“I… she has a point, Lyra.. you're a human, now.. you're not exactly too.. ahem.. Sturdy..”
“Well duh! I was never a fighter, I mean as support, haven’t you seen the movies? All awesome special agents have a scientist person who makes them super spy armor and equipment! Be honest, how easy would it be if you had somepony know of your missions that could make you gadgets or weapons designed for it?” Bonnie blinked in contemplation, then Alexis chimed in.
“You… have a very compelling point, Lyra…” Alexis said. “.... Am I the only one who dislikes my name?”
“I thought you named yourself Alexis… I don’t know of any other name for you.”
“Can you… rename me..?” She asked.
“I… um… Bon-Bon, help!” I pleaded, having no idea what to name her.
“Hmm… I don't know human names…” Bonnie said.
“.... Does.. Eve sound good, Lyra..?” Alexis asked me.
“That works for me? How about you?”
“I think.. it's nice..” and like that, Eve now has a new name..
“I.. I'm sorry I lied to you, Lyra.. I do love you..” she hugged and nuzzled me.
“I love you too, Bon-Bon… just please… no more secrets, okay?”
“Okay..” she nuzzled me again, and we sat there on the way to Canterlot.
Author's Note
it is an abrupt end, but there is a sequel in the works.
