You're Not Alone

After a day of fun with Twilight and her friends at Canterlot Mall, you dropped your friend home by the end of the day.

It is now evening and you just got dressed in your pajamas. As you got in bed, your phone rang and you checked that Twilight is calling.

“Hello Twilight.” You answered your phone.

“Hi Night,” Twilight said from the other line. “Are you asleep? Don’t tell me I woke you up!?”

“I was getting in bed until you called. Do you need something?”

“Right. You see Sunset called me earlier that Maud showed them a video of Pinkie’s friend, Frostbite, creating a copy of himself which happened when he excused himself. There is no doubt that he has something that has Equestrian magic in it. Also Sunset has doubts that her friend Dusk Eyes also has something as well.”

“Really.” You couldn’t believe what you just heard. Normally Twilight and her face one scenario or one person that involves Equestrian magic but this time there are two persons involved. “What do you want me to do?”

“If you can come by at my place tomorrow, I need help with setting something up.”

“Sure I‘ll be there tomorrow, goodnight.”

“Goodnight, Night.” Twilight giggled after that last part then ended the call.

You placed your phone near your left prosthetic arm as you turned off the lights and went to bed. Long story short, you were born with only one arm and one of your step dads used to work as a prosthetist until he left and now works as a mechanic but still has knowledge with fixing your arm.

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Your prosthetic arm brings back a memory with Twilight. It happened on your first day at Canterlot High with Science as your first class with Dr. Hooves.

“It’s nice meeting all of you.” You finished greeting yourself to your new classmates.

“Thank you, Mr. Night Star. You can sit next to Ms. Sparkle.” Dr. Hooves pointed to an available seat.

Lucky you that you will be sitting next to Twilight. Before you could make another step, your left hand begins to twitch which makes the teacher and the rest wonder what’s going on, except for Twilight which she already knew.

“Could you give me a second?” You said getting a nod from your teacher as you crouched down and began to hit the lower dorsal side of your hand on the floor a few times. “Much better.” You then stood up.

“Is something wrong Mr. Star?” Dr. Hooves asked.

You explained that you are born with one arm and your left arm is artificial. One of your classmates doesn’t believe you and thinks you're just doing this to show off. You took this as a dare as you see a cutter on your teacher’s desk giving you an idea. You asked if you can borrow the cutter which the teacher allowed you. After placing your bag down you then rolled up your left sleeve while holding the cutter in your right. Twilight, Dr. Hooves and the rest of your classmates begin to wonder what you are planning, until what will happen will be very disgusting. You use the cutter and begin to cut the flesh from your arm much to everyone in the room, especially Dr. Hooves are petrified and some started screaming.

“Night Star it's okay I believe you. You don’t have to prove it!” Twilight now standing from her seat as you finished and placed the cutter down.

She sees that their teacher wants you to remove the skin. You grabbed part of the skin that you cut and after pulling it in one go, lo and behold you showed them the endoskeleton of your prosthetic arm. Most of your classmates screamed, even one of them fell from their seat but you’re relieved that there is no fake blood underneath the skin to make things less disgusting.

“Great whickering stallions.” Dr. Hooves stood up from his and inspected your left arm.

“Last time I saw a prosthetic arm it looks exactly like a human hand but this, an endoskeleton-”

“Dr. Hooves.” Twilight called out to her teacher on how he is the one that’s amazed on your prosthetic arm while the rest of the class were still petrified on what you did.

“Excuse me for this. Mr. Night Star, I will have a word with you before you go home later.” He gestured to your classmates then to the peeled off skin from your arm.

Since that day since you don’t want the skin to be applied on it again, you had to wear a glove that is almost up to the elbow.

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The next day you woke up a little earlier since you will drop by Twilight's to set things up then you will head to Canterlot Mall with Twilight since you applied for a part-time job at an electronics store, coincidentally that is where Twilight works at.

You are getting dressed and while you are busy looking for the glove for your left hand, Equestrian magic came from the window and enchanted your steampunk goggles. You didn’t even know as you grabbed your goggles and wore them on your neck and left your place.

At Twilight’s house but at their garage, you are helping her set up some weird device with what looks like a barcode scanner attached to it. Your friend explained that this device she made will help detect and determine the source of Equestrian magic and the kind of magic an item gets enchanted by it.

“Night, could you hand over my phone so I can call our friends.” Twilight pointed to her phone on her desk while she was busy setting up her device.

You grabbed her phone from the desk and handed it to her. Upon skin contact, Twilight got grounded by some electric current as she dropped her phone. You immediately caught it but something just happened. You did catch it but the phone itself got separated into pieces of parts just levitating then after a while her phone became whole again as it fell into your hands.

“How did you do that?” Twilight said as she took her phone from your hands inspecting it.“ I don’t know.” You are puzzled as your friend here.

Both of you hear the sound of a car outside which could be the others. You see that Fluttershy was already here with Sky, the eldest of the Blaze siblings and Rainbow’s sparring partner in the karate club.

The others then arrive after a few more minutes which all of you moved to Twilight’s room. You are the first one which you don’t mind as Twilight used the scanner attached to the device and scanned you to show that your steampunk goggles that you wear on your neck have Equestrian magic.

“So, about what I did to your phone was that telekinesis?” You asked while waiting for her to explain what you got. Twilight handed your goggles back to you and you wore them on your neck. You then try to point your hand at Twilight if you are able to take her glasses.

“That is not going to work,” Twilight said as you lowered your hand. “According to my calculations on why you couldn’t get my glasses plus about the part with my phone, you have the ability called cyberkinesis or technopathy.”

“Techno- what now?” Applejack asked.

“It means I can manipulate machines with my own mind whether I touch them or not.” You explained in an easier way.

“So, with your left metal arm and with your powers only means one thing.” Pinkie did a little bit of thinking then she gasped. “Oh my gosh, Twilight’s friend is actually a machine disguised as a human that was sent to the past to destroy us all!”

“Uh, Pinkie. We're pretty sure that Night over here is one hundred percent human. Except for his left arm.” Rainbow Dash said, rolling her eyes.

This became a new experience for you since the other boys who are close to the Rainbooms experienced it also.

After finishing scanning the rest, all of you now begin to go your separate ways to your part-time jobs. On the other hand since you don’t just want to rely on your step-parents, you earned a part-time job at a hardware store at Canterlot Mall which is a floor below the electronics store Twilight works at. You offered to give Twilight a ride on your ATV because currently she needs to earn a little bit more money for the repairs on her bicycle.

At the hardware store after assisting one customer on the type of paint they need you begin to check around if anyone needs assistance or your other workers or your boss needs you to do something else. You then see one customer as the customer service desk complaining about something. You approached and the clerk behind the desk explained that the electric fan they bought the other day then all of a sudden did not work. You assisted and tried it out using a nearby plug socket and the customer was right, it didn’t work. Since this was bad timing to test out your powers but as long as it's to help, as the clerk went to get the manager the customer looked the other way. This gave you the chance since you are wearing your goggles and with one touch of your index finger, the electric fan began to work which made the customer astonished by what just happened.

As the clerk came back with the manager the customer explained to the manager that earlier it wasn’t working now it began to work which made all three of them confused while you pretended to be but you did do something. The customer apologized for bothering you three but you explained that if he has any concerns he is free to either call us or come back here.

After your shift is done, you are about to meet up with Twilight until you will pass by an atm machine. You thought of Twilight needing money for the repairs on her bicycle then about your step-parents paying the bills.

“This is going to be a bad idea but it will benefit both Twilight and your step dads. All I just need is enough to give to Twilight and to my peeps.” You thought as you approached the ATM. Before placing your hand on it, you first imagine the approximate amount of money you won’t do this for greed.

Twilight mentioned the amount of money she needs and you placed your hand on the machine as you began hacking into it. In a matter of seconds money came out from it, the normal way not just bursting out of it. You put the money in your bag to give it to Twilight later. Then you placed your hand back on it again and withdrew enough to give to your step parents later.

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“Thanks again for giving me a ride.” Twilight said, clinging on to you as you drove her home. “All I just need is to do overtime and earn a bit more cash then I will get my bicycle repaired.”

“You don’t have to do that.” You stopped and parked your ATV for a while. “Maybe this will help.” You then reached into your bag and took out the money.

“N-Night Star, no I couldn’t accept that.” Twilight refuses the money as she pushes your hand away with it.

“You need this more than I do, just take it.” You handed it back to her.

Twilight looks at the money then back at you. After thinking this through Twilight gave you a warm smile and accepted the money but not after giving you a hug for your generosity as you restarted your ATV and drove to Twilight’s place to drop her.

By the time you arrived at your house after dropping off Twilight, you see both of your stepdads in the dining room with what it looks like the bills. They appreciated you helping them to pay the bills after treating you like their real son but the money you three earned isn't enough. That is when you took out your bag and poured the money which they became flabbergasted if they are seeing was real.

"Boy, w-where...where Ah'll get this from." One of them asked feeling which the money is actually real.

"Don't worry about it dad. I can't let both of you do the work and leave me out of it." You took your bag and before leaving the dining room. "It's the least I can do and a thank you for raising me"

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As the week goes after going home from Canterlot High, you are busy in your backyard with a project which is actually a mech suit from a movie you watch which the suit is called AMP (which is an acronym for Amplified Mobility Platform). This inspired you after the drone Twilight made to take selfie pictures also the robot she made to help with the backdrop of the school’s play ‘The Dazzled’ and Micro Chip’s toaster robot name jvj-24601 that you want to go further on recreating the machine from that fictional movie to real life after watching a demonstration video of it.

While testing its hand and arm movements, you heard a bell ringing which was actually a bicycle’s bell. You turned to see Twilight arrive and got off her bicycle which is already fixed.

“Twilight, what are you doing here?” You asked while getting down from the AMP.

“Oh nothing, just checking with your mech suit you are working on.” Twilight approached you and saw your progress. “I guess you are almost done with it.”

“Right. Just need to work on making it move using its legs. I see that you already had your bicycle fixed.” After you mentioned that Twilight’s smile dropped as she now gave you a concerned look. “What is it?”

“Yes again, thanks for the money which is the reason why I am here to talk with you. Please don’t tell me you use your technopathy on an atm machine.”

There is no denying that Twilight guessed it correctly. You had to think of some excuse but with you getting your powers on that same day, you can’t fool her. Instead of making up a story...

“Yes, I did.” You respond which wasn’t a pleasant answer to your friend.

“This is bad, really bad!” Twilight now begins to panic for a moment but then calms herself down. “Night, I really appreciate you lending me money. But what you did was stealing, do you even realize you will get arrested for this.”

“I thought of that last part you said and after seeing its security camera on it, I also hacked into it so I won’t get traced.” You said with guilt. “But still I am sorry, it won’t happen again.”

“It better not.”

Twilight still felt something in her heart even though you apologized and promised it will not happen again, she felt darkness inside of you. It wasn’t just about stealing the money but on how you use your powers also with your personality. Twilight was afraid that if you will recall what happened in the past and will use your powers in the wrong way in the present.