The Derpy I Know And Love 2 or Shooting Stars Are Not Always Lucky

CHAPTER SIX

The Truth Comes Out

They went back to Pinkie’s room.  Rainbow was oblivious to all around her.  She was holding a hoof and caressing Pinkie’s cheek.

“Rainbow,” asked Rarity.  “Has the doctor came back by?”

“Yes, he said that her condition is unchanged.  But he told me not to expect a miracle.  It is a wonder that she has held on for this long.”

“When Bubbles and I got to her, she thought that Bubbles was you.  She said that she was happy that you were there with her.  I don’t like to lie, but we let her think you were there.  She smiled as she slipped back into unconsciousness.”

Rainbow grabbed Twilight and sobbed.

“I wish I would have made more of an effort to acknowledge my feelings for her.  I want to make Pinkie as happy as you and Bubbles."

Twilight and Rarity looked at each other.  Now was not the time to talk to Rainbow about it.

“It will be ok,” said Twilight.  “I am going to spend the night at Carousel Boutique.  It is closer and if you need anything, just send some pony by.”

“Thanks Twi, you too Rarity.  If we need anything we will let you know.”

Twilight walked over to the bed and looked at Pinkie Pie.  Rarity was right, this made her ashamed to feel sorry for herself.  Twilight kissed Pinkie on the forehead.

“Sleep well happy pony.”  Said Twilight, trying hard not to cry.

Rarity and Twilight walked to Carousel Boutique in the late evening cool.  Rarity tried to keep Twilight engaged so she would not think of both situations.  They talked about how Fluttershy was particularly upset with the whole Pinkie issue and it was a good bet it would be days before she came out of her cottage.

When  they got to Carousel Boutique, Rarity offered Twilight some food, but Twilight declined.  Rarity insisted that her friend take a warm shower and a stiff drink.

Twilight obliged and before long she was in Rarity’s spare bed.  She could hear Rarity busy about the place.  Twilight was about asleep when she felt somepony clime in bed with her, a warm leg draped over her.

“Sorry Darling,” said Rarity, “it is just me.  I did not think it best for you to be alone.  But don’t take it wrong, I am a married pony and besides, your flanks are still a little too scrawny.”

Twilight chuckled despite the situations.  With Rarity comforting her, she soon fell to sleep.

Bubbles had Spike send a letter to Princess Celestia informing he on the situation with Pinkie and with what Shooting Star had done.  Sparkler showed up and let her mother know that she had seen her father not far from the library as if watching.

“That is enough!” said Bubbles, “I am going to have a few words with him!”

“Applejack? Would you keep an eye on the children, I think it best that Sparkler comes with me.  I don’t want to do this alone.”

“I could go with you,” said A.J. “I could handle him.”

“No, I think having his daughter there would be enough to temper any issues.” Said Bubbles.  She and Sparkler left.  Sparkler directed them to where she had seen her father.

Twilight was dreaming that Bubbles had walked in on she and Rarity in the same bed. ‘I can’t leave you alone for one minute without finding you in bed with some other pony!’  The dream was so real that it woke Twilight.  Knowing that she would not be able to go back to sleep, Twilight teleported to the outside as not to wake Rarity.

Once outside, she could not help walking in the direction of the Library. ‘Maybe I will see her from afar,’  thought Twilight.  As she got nearer, she heard some familiar voices.  It was Shooting Star and Bubbles.  Twilight got as close as she dared, then did a spell that enhanced her hearing.

“I knew you would be sneaking around.  But I thought it would be that tramp Twilight that I would catch.” Said Shooting Star.

“What is with you!” exclaimed Bubbles, “you know nothing about her and yet you judge her character.”

“I don’t need to know,” he said smugly, “I am gone for a few moments and I find you in the embrace of some mare-lover!”

“She is not a mare-lover!  Before I came to talk to her, she was a virgin.  She had never even 'played with herself'!  If anything I was the slut who seduced an innocent and naive mare.  I took advantage her and had sex with her the first night!  She is the sweetest, most intelligent, and most empathic pony I had ever met since you left.  In many ways she was just like you, or at least like you use to be.  And that perhaps was the reason I was first drawn to her.

Now I don’t even know who you are!  My Shooting Star would have sat down and talked to all parties involved.  But petty jealousy was never part of his character.”

There was an odd look on Shooting’s face.

“You know this! I can tell!  You remember the way you were, so why pull all this?  You know that any court would throw out any time-relativity horse-apples.”

Shooting lowered his head.

“No, no, no!  It can’t be that simple.  You know you could never win in the long-run.  You want to keep me from my wife just in hopes of winning me back.  It can’t just come down to the old ‘if I can’t have her, nopony can’.  That in itself is proof that the Shooting star who came to the future was not the one I watch die!”

“I’m sorry, I can not stand to see you with another pony.” He said.  “If it is not how I was it is how I am now, I don’t want to be a monster, but I will never let you be with her as long as I live.”

Twilight’s eyes filled with tears.  She could not understand why some pony would work to keep her from her wife and children forever.  Twilight took off galloping, it happened that it was in the direction of the hospital.  Sparkler, who was shocked at the entire interaction between her mother and father, happened to see Twilight and took off after her.  Bubbles turned around and returned home.  Shooting followed Sparkler at a distance.

Twilight stopped at the hospital and went inside.  She looked in on Pinkie and Rainbow.  Pinkie was being examined, the doctor was talking to Rainbow.

“I’m sorry Ms Dash,” said the doctor, “short of a miracle, she will probably not last until, at the most, tomorrow night.”

The doctor left, Twilight was going to go in but she heard Rainbow talking and paused to hear what Rainbow said next.

“It is ok Pinkie, I will not let you go alone.” Said Rainbow sobbing, “As soon as you go, I will go outside and climb as high as I can and then do a sonic rainboom straight into the ground.  Rainbow Dash has to go out in style.”

Twilight’s blood froze.  She had lost her wife and children and now she was about to loose two of her best friends.

Twilight then remembered about some rather off limit spells in the Canterlot Archives.  She noticed a fruit basket sitting on a table outside a room, she took four apples and gobbled them down.  She was going to need the energy.

She concentrated and the next moment she found herself in Canterlot.  She was about to go to the archive, but decided to make a side visit first.

Shining Armor heard a knocking at his door.  He crawled out of bed as carefully as he could as not to wake his wife.  He went down the stairs and opened the door.

“Twily! Why are you here so late at night?”

“I am sorry, but this is an official visit.  I need two unicorn guards who can manage teleportation and I need them in fifteen minutes.”

“That is a tall order, why”

“I am sorry, I can’t tell you that, please trust me.  I don’t want to pull rank on you.”

Twilight had never even hinted at such a thing before.  But he saw the look in her face and decided not to argue.

“Yes Lady Twilight.”  He said.

“Then I will meet you back here in fifteen minutes.”  Said Twilight, then she vanished.

It was only ten minutes when Twilight returned.  Two large unicorns in uniform were waiting.

“Here are the ponies you requested, Lady Twilight.”

Twilight looked very grim.

“I am sorry I came off the way I did.  This is very important and very hard for me.”  She said, trying to keep a brave face for the guards.  “I love you so much, BBBFF, tell Cadence, mom and dad that as well.”

“What’s going on?” Shining asked.

“I’m sorry, I can not tell you that.”

“I will have to let the princesses know.”

“You do what you have to, just as I must do now.”  Said Twilight.  She gave Shining a hug then turned to the guards.

“Please stand close, we are going to teleport to Ponyville on three.”

The guards nodded.

“One, two, three”  Twilight and the guard vanished.

Shining went inside to get his uniform to see the princesses.

The three ponies appeared in the town square.

“Follow me gentlecolts.” Said Twilight going off in the direction of the hospital.