Storm chaser

It’s been 10 hours since your little, encounter with the captain celaeno and her crew, you’ve been asleep for most of the ride, in tempests bed. It took her some convincing, and begging because you’re not sleeping with grubber or those guard in the Barracks. Eventually she caved in and let you sleep with her, to be honest, you kinda growing feeling for tempest, she’s been very nice to you specifically for some reason, it would be likely to suspect her of also having feelings towards you too but, if she did, wouldn’t she be the more assertive one and ask you out first? Whatever the reasoning is you don’t want to force yourself on her, gradually warm up to her, and you have been a lot over these long periods of nothing where you travel from point A to point B. You rise from tempests bed, tempest herself was not there, probably out on the deck, you make your way out of her room and sure enough, there she is on the deck. You approach her and she look at you and smiles and blushes, but try’s to hide her face when she does.

“How much longer till we reach mount aris?” You ask her as you look out amongst the clouds.

“About an hour or so, we’re almost there.” Tempest assures you, looking over the deck with you.

You two stared over the clouds for about three minutes or so. After a bet more, you look over at tempest, who has a small smile while she looked over the scenery. She seems at peace, probably the happiest you’ve seen her, either it’s because you’re here or she’s so close to getting twilight.

“Hey, tempest,” you ask grabbing her attention “can I ask you something?”

Tempest looks a little confused, and... scared?

“Do you have feeling for me?” You ask not wasting time.

Tempest seems full of fear that you asked that question, and looks down “y-yeah.” She says in a bit of a sad tone.

“Well... would you be willing to-“

“NO!” Tempest interrupts in a panic.

Why was this the reaction you were getting? You’ve been nice for the most part, you haven’t been an asshole or defiant in her orders, so why could she be reacting like this?

“What’s wrong tempest?” You say worried for her.

“It’s, it’s nothing, I-I just... can’t.” She answers vaguely.

“Why are you being so cagey about this?” You push “is it because of the storm kings rule book or some shit like that?” You question, desperately wanting to know the answer to why she is refusing to date you, it isn’t that big a deal, is it?

“No, the storm king has nothing to do with it I,” she takes in a deep inhale then lets it out slowly “it personal, I don’t want to get into it.” She says somberly.

You can see whatever it is that is that prevents her from dating you, is a sensitive subject so you won’t pursue anymore. “Ok, tempest, I won’t bug you about anymore than I have already.” You say getting up and walking to the other deck to give her some space. Needless to say you feel bad for her, whatever it is that’s making her feel this way is eating her up inside, or has been for a while. Whatever the reason is, you’re just gonna leave her alone, maybe try to talk about it later, if she’s feeling up to it. In the meantime you continue to stare at the Scenery on the opposite side of the deck there’s less clouds so there’s a pretty clear view of the ground. You look to your right and see a Beautiful tall mountain, you would presume is mount Aris, it’s a pretty lonely Mountain, not surrounded by any land only a small rock bridge leading up to the base of it, On all of its other sides it is surrounded by water, mount aris is a bit of an Island from the looks of it. You look at the shoreline of the mainland and see in the water a couple things moving, swimming to shore. You rise up thinking it is who you think it is, you look closely and see a rainbow color on one of them, it is them.

“TEMPEST! TWILIGHT'S DOWN THERE!” You yell over to her causing her to turn around with excitement on her face and run over to you. She looks over the deck and down at the shore and spots twilight separating from her friends and them walking in different directions.

“Looks like we finally got her alone.” She says in a devious tone, she then turns around “GUARDS!” She yells and four guards come running up and and stand at attention.

“three of go down to the bottom of the ship and attach our cage to the chain and get ready to lower it,” she says to her guard, three then make there way to do what she assigned for them, she then turns to the last one.

“You, parachute quietly down there and make sure she stays under the cage.” The guard complies, it runs to the wall and grabs a parachute and dives off the edge of the ship.

“Go meet twilight when she comes up, I’ll steer the ship.” Tempest asks of you.

“I’ll be delighted to finally meet her.” You say sarcastically. Tempest chuckles at that remark and Shoos you off to go where are the three guards have gone and meet twilight when she has been captured. As you make your way down, the rattling of this ships Rutters stop, But it doesn’t fall out of the sky, Tempest must’ve put the ship on some sort of silent flight mode. You continue until you see three guards with what you could only assume is the cage, it’s shaped more like a claw than anything, but the more you look at it the more you understand how it works. There is straight bars that lead to a triangular shaped flat piece that go around in a circle, you assume the cage is to come down and grasp around twilight and bring her up to the ship like a claw Machine, only less rigged. The guards are lifting the open metal cage to the end of a chain, one of them then moves to a button and Pressed it, The cage slam shut the same way you assumed it would then opens back up, the third guard goes to a switch and Opens a trap door under the cage.

“Man, the storm king thought of every possible contingency plan didn’t he. ” you thought to yourself.

You look into the trap door and can spot what looks like twilight sitting alone, right under the cage. That little dragon is also there, that could be a problem, he could warn twilight of the cage and they could get out of the way and lose her yet again. Just as you had that thought the guard that was parachuting down came up behind the little dragon and picked him up and covered his mouth, everything is coming along perfectly.

One of the guards starts to lower the cage as another Mans the button to close the cage. The cage lowers fast, then slows a bit to get more accurately over twilight. Once it’s accurate The cage drops quickly and rushes towards twilight, good thing too, twilight just noticed that her dragon friend was being held by tempests guard. Once twilight tries to attack the guard, The cage clamped shut around her, and pulls her up, she screams something back down to the dragon who breathes fire onto the guards arm, engulfing it in flames causing him to drop the little dragon. Once the princess is inside the airship, The trap door closes, leaving you in twilight to meet for the first time.

“You three go get tempest, and tell her to take her time, I want to have a little talk with our... new guest.” You order the guards. You also can’t help but grin smugly at twilight as the guards leave to go inform tempest. You and twilight sparkle stare daggers into each other’s eyes, you start taking in the room you were in, it’s a large open room with the chain that’s holds twilight cage going all the way up to the ceiling where outside light shines in. The room is probably three stories tall as well, it’s definitely the largest room on the airship. The floor has metal netting type floor design underneath this floor seems to be some type of boiler. The floor around the cage twilight is in, is a flat Surfaced floor and the flat floor spreads to the ends of the room as path in six different directions. You stare back at twilight and start to walk circles around her as you talk.

“So, we finally formally meet,” you begin “twilight is it?” You say knowing the answer already, you just want to hear her confirm your success.

“Yes, i am twilight sparkle, princess of friendship,” she introduces “what, are you?” She asked you in confusion.

“I’m a human, names anon, nice to meet you finally,” you say as you lean on the cage “man, you... you took me and tempest on one hell of a wild goose chase didn’t ya.” You say, teasing twilight.

“She told me they would help.” Twilight says dejected.

“Who-what?” You say completely confused at what she just said.

“Celestia told me, The queen of the hippogriffs would help, she was gonna... but I f-f-fucked it all up for us!” She yells with anger directed towards herself.

You start to slow clap “good thing you fucked up your plan and got yourself alone, made it pretty easy for us.” You mock. Honestly your glad you’ve finally got her captured, if you never got closer with tempest, you would’ve just been looking out for yourself still, now, this is for her, and her goal.

Twilight glares at you through her bars and her horn lights up and blasted a beam at you, you flinched and immediate realized you weren’t blasted, the cage had blocked her magical beam. Twilight looked confused then shot at you again, to just have the same thing happen. You then turn your back away from twilight and walk up the stairs leading up and out of the room she was held in as she continued to blast her cage to no avail.

your hanging out by the edge of the deck when tempest calls over to you.

“Hey anon, come in here!” Tempest yells out her door to her room to you.

“Ok coming!” You yell back and approach her door.

You enter and she sits by her map table, and waves you over to next to her. You walk over and pull a chair to sit rather close to her, luckily she doesn’t mind. “I need to use that radio on your O.T.W for a second.” She explains.

“Ok sure, just a sec,” you start to fiddle with the buttons on your O.T.W to turn on the radio and soon the “satellite dish” on the right O.T.W lights up with the storm kings logo and what sounded like static could be heard from your left O.T.W.

“Hello? Commander tempest?” A voice says from the O.T.W.

“Hot damn it actually works!” you say internally, surprised at the fact that this thing works with no electricity or WiFi.

“Hello storm king,” tempest says.

“That’s the storm kings voice?” you think to yourself looking up at the storm king bobble head on the shelf Above you “he doesn’t sound like a tyrannical ruler, he sounds like he makes three hour long documentaries about the first two Star Wars films like he knows anything about directing.” you mock him in you head.

“Oh tempest! so... you got everything ready for me?” The storm king says hopeful.

“Yes it should be ready when you arrive at canterlot.” Tempest answers.

“Good, I’ll be waiting, storm king out.” The storm king says before static replaces his voice. You shut off the radio and put your arms down. Tempest looks at you fondly, and blushes a bit when she catches herself staring.

“Thank you, for everything you’ve done.” She says as she starts to lean into you and gives you a tight hug.

“Anything for you, I’m doing this because I want your end of the deal met.” You say wrapping your arms around tempest, and hugging her as tight as she is hugging you. You feel her let out a large exhale as her cheek is pressed against your chest. You decide to just hold her for a bit and when she didn’t seem like she was gonna separate from you any time soon you lean down and kissed her head just above her horn. She lets out a moan of satisfaction at that, then almost Immediately gasps and separates from you with a large plush covering the entire lower half of her face.

“I-I still... we, can’t... I can’t.” She says looking like she’s about to cry. You rub her cheek to calm her down, she pushes it away softly and slowly and gets up to leave.

“I’m gonna go see the princess.” she says with a tinge of sadness in her voice.

What could’ve possibly happened to her to make her act like this around you whenever you push her romantically? You have to get it out of her. You decide to follow her, without her noticing down to where twilight is kept.

twilight is still blasting her cage, even slamming herself into the cage to no avail. She stops when she spots Tempest in her view.

“Aww, Princess of friendship, with no friends.” She says with a chuckle. “And no way out.”

“ why are you doing this? You’re a pony,” twilight says “just like me.”

Tempest slams her hoofs on the bars of the cage as her horn emits a massive surge of electricity through the bars. “I’m nothing like you,” she says her horn calming down “I’m more than you’ll ever be.”

you stood just out of sight as you watched her sing, now you understand. Her friends abandoned her, when she lost her horn and her friends left her, and didn’t pay her any second thought. That’s what caused her to betray the other pony’s, what made her leave equestria... what made her unwilling to try and love someone else. Tempest walks into you and she stops in her tracks, and looks up at you with shock that you’re here.

“Did you hear-“

“Everything,” you answer knowing the question already, before it even came out of her mouth “it’s this really worth it to you?” You ask, but you not gonna let her answer, you’re going to get what you need to say across to her.

“Working for some asshole king, To get your horn back? Kidnapping, torture, killing, all in the name of the storm king. What if he doesn’t do it, what then? Still work for him? he will just ask for more from you, it’s not worth it tempest, I’m still going to deliver twilight to him, FOR YOU but I’m telling, there’s got to be some other way... your Friends abandoning you when you were Young, them forgetting that you were there friend, is that what makes you dread having that type of romantic engagement with me? Why? What makes you think I’m like them? I’ve shown you that I’ve been doing this with your best interest at heart, I’m doing this for you. Doesn’t that show you that I truly love you tempest? I want the best for you,” you say pouring your heart out, has you kneel to tempests level and grabbing her cheek gently “I love you tempest, show me... show me that you love me too.” You pull tempests face closer to you, as you lean in, you where so close to closing the gap. But She pulled away with tears in her eyes, and tears streaming down her face.

“f-friendship failed me when I-I was young *sniff* I-it did nothing but hurt me, physically and mentally,” she said pointing at her horn to emphasize her point “friendship failed me... Who’s to say a coltfriend Would do me any better. It’ll probably be just as bad, if not worse.” She says sobbing more as she spoke.

“No, it wouldn’t,” you say trying to convince her otherwise but she says something that makes you realize you’re not winning this battle.

“You said your marefriend was awful, she yelled at you, bullied you, and did nothing but make you feel worthless even when you were doing something she told you to do. Your friends treated you like shit, they hooked you up with that bitch of a marefriend and then when you broke up with her, said it was you fault, that you weren’t pulling you weight in the relationship, they made you fell like it was your fault, and made you get back together with her just for the same shit to happen... who are you to tell me friends are what I need!” she says, eyes puffy and red “who are you to say, it won’t be the same.” She says quietly as she walks away and lets you sit there and think about what she said.

She’s right, in all honesty, who are to say you’ll be any different. You both haven’t had good friends, you especially... what if it was you? What if it won’t be better for her? Still though she needs friends, ACTUAL friends. Ones that care, ones that won’t abandon her when times get tough. You’re willing to give her the love she needs in her life. But she needs to be willing to do the same. Whatever happens though, you want the best for tempest, you want her to get her horn back, you will make sure of it, because even if tempest won’t admit it, she loves you... And so do you.