Silence in Equestria

The Sector II - Episode XXII

Farewell

"(Isn't she beautiful?)" asked Silence in herself, as she adored the wonderful purple unicorn quietly sleeping in her wooden bed, next to Silence's keys on her cupboard. It was her last day here after all, as tomorrow, as they agreed with Twilight, Rarity and Inkie Pie knows she'll be travelling back to Manehatten for family reasons. The true reason however is more power. She's going to Tartarus, the unknown, and it's not clear if she ever makes it back.

It is understandble to take a last look at our beloved, right? Of course, Silence didn't only want to just stare at her, she wanted to taste her as well, though the mesmerizing beauty of Twilight kept her mind busy for a few minutes. After she was ready to take some of her love's blood, she gently bent over Twilight's neck, her lips were dripping from anesthetic as they softly touched Twilight's neck. As Silence however was to imprint her fangs into Twilight's neck a horribly loud noise came from outside.

The entire thing was like an extreme whiplash echoing through the night sky, then another one was sound, and a whole series of more. Twilight woke up in an instant to the loud noise, so quickly she saw literally nothing at first. Silence, as a lighting dashed out from the front door of Twilight's room, barely grasping what just happened, while Twilight was rubbing her eyelids.

"What was that?" she asked looking out the window, where the noise came from. Nothing unusual was seen, only the ponies opening their windows searching for the same thing as she did. She turned back to check if her assistant is okay. Spike was only frightened and speechless, shivering in his bed, but nothing special. Twilight decided to investigate the situation, but as the chilly wind hit her as she opened the balcony door, the unicorn changed her mind.

Silence was rushing back home furiously, waiting for her clan who, as they planned were scrapping remained materials. Only the pegasus and her clan knew what these strange whiplashes were, as they knew it was one of them, sounding it. Silence arrived at home, walked down to the basement with heavy stomps, where Orison and MERCY were waiting for her. They all knew why Silence was mad, but they knew she won't be angry at them. The pegasus took a look around, then sat down and patiently waited. It didn't took her a few minutes but Spade arrived, carrying a arm-sized... thing that has an end similar to a cannon.

"Spade?!" shouted up the pegasus furiously as she stood up stomping closer and closer to her clanmate.

Spade instantly crouched from fear and cried "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I... I had to."

"You had to what?!"

"I had to- to defend myself. There was that huge scorpion-lion thing attacked me. I was scared."

"How much scared?" screamed Silence at her.

"Very much."

"This much?"

"No." cried Spade, shivering from the fear.

"Less?"

"No, more."

"Then how come you didn't blast MY head off yet?!?" asked Silence, then in a blink of an eye, with a huge sigh she calmed down. MERCY and Orison were frightened, rarely they see Silence so angry, completely behaving like some beast, turning inside-out.

The pegasus turned into her bizarre-looking friend "Okay, MERCY, can you modify this little PPC for me, so it'd be competible with the Mana Output?"

"Sure, just... just give me a few minutes." she answered, quickly grabbing the device and beggining to work on with her keen claws.

Meanwhile, Vision also arrived, without any greeting her eyes' attention was quickly seduced by MERCY's work. "Woah, what is that thing?"

"Uh, it's a PPC.... don't tell me you don't know what it is." asked Silence in a deep tone, while helping up her fellow, Spade.

"Hey, I was standing in front of the stupid radars and stuff, don't expect me to know these things you were fighting with." shouted back Vision.

"PPC, as Pulsation-driven Plasma Cannon. Mostly the interceptors used it back then. It fires small shots of burning plasma at high vecotity, with a high rate of fire and... much noise." she finished, taking a now friendly look at the responsible member.

"Ah, so this was that whiplash-thing. Awesome."

"Done!" shouted up MERCY, making Silence grab the weapon with magic and carefully placing it on her horn. It fit perfectly as two puzzles. The look however cracked Vision up, making her brust out in epic laughter.

"What's it?" asked Silence.

"It's.... a bit longer than I though." replied MERCY, painfully trying to hold back the laughter.

Silence touched the device and she felt, it's indeed too long to remain behind the mask. She turned it on anyway, that was an even more hilarious experience to Vision, who now fell to the ground. MERCY also began to chuckle now, that also turned into laughter as Silence blinked. The blinks literally made Vision scream. It was, for some reason funny to see that thing sticking out from behind the fake eye.

"Oh my, that was good." said MERCY as she acted like she'd wipe a tear from her eye, which was obviously not possible, then continued "I can cut a bit from the muzzle if you'd like, but it won't be that accurate."

"I'd be grateful." replied Silence, with a fierce voice.

After about an hour, they were done for tonigh. A quick revision of the plan, equipping the now good looking PPC and everyone was almost ready to dive into the future, but Silence shouted up for a last order:

"One more thing. If anything comes in here, anything... shot it on sight." She turned away seeing the other's approval, and decided not to hunt this time. Packing away some food and drink in her saddlebag, she waited for the sun's sign before starting her journey to the unknown.

The tomorrow didn't wait. Twilight woke up in the morning as usual, saw the keys her friend left there, and without the thought of breakfast she took a look at Silence's house, that was so quiet, so empty, just like a graveyard.

On a shelf, however, a little note was calling the unicorn:

"Twilight, food is in the fridge, medicines in the cupboard behind the mirror in the bathroom. You can find a few books to entertain yourself in the reading room if you'd like. Feel yourself at home.

Your love

Silence."

Twilight instantly turned her look towards the green room at her right, from where a few bookshelves were winking at her.

She quietly walked in, the room's green wallpapers and wooden furniture gave a nice, cozy feeling, but something was missing. The unicorn took a look around if her friend got any books she may not own. Twilight, being a librarian recognized most of books, which she already read, though some seemed a bit off, why would a pegasus want to read books about magic-related things. Blossomforth's parents were pegasi, and not even living here, not to mention she wasn't interested in magic at all either.... at least not secretly. This thing though, instead of bugging Twilight, more like made her chuckle, thinking Silence may want to be the first magical pegasus in Equestria. It's all about determination, and she knew Silence had it, and such seemingly impossible and far goal was rather... cute.

Looking at the desk, a small piece of paper was flouting at the unicorn. Maybe another note? No, the whole drawer was filled with papers, papers of Twilight.

This creeped Twilight out a little, as a whole gallery full of dreadful drawings of her was lying in front of her. But not only drawings, also short poems filled with beautiful methaphores, yet strange rhymes. She kept browsing in the artist's private collection when suddenly, out from the strange drawings a beautiful, tribal-styled black and white pattern winked at her. It was mysetious yet so obvious, weird but beautiful at the same time. It was a symbol about Twilight. She felt as the beautiful methaphores have been forged in to this simple masterpiece. Twilight just couldn't get her eyes off it, especially from the message under it:

"My inspiration."

Knocks on the door interrupted the silence, and Twilight's thoughts about her friend. She hurried to open it, and for her surprise, it was Applejack, with a relatively worried expression.

"Twiligh' I thought ya fell asleep over ya'll studies or somethin', not openin' the door. What ya doing at Silence's house, did ya have a sleepover partay?" she asked.

Twilight chuckled "That'd be great, but truth is she'll be away for a few days. So, what were you looking for?".

"Mind ya if I ask for a lil' help, Applebloom crashed the barrels an' the sugar of the apple juice is makin' the whole place sticky as a glue factory. Have any fancy magic that coul' help?" she asked filled with worry and a bit of embarrassment that she had to call her friend for help again.

The unicorn giggled, locked the door and with a little blink of magic she made the keys disappear.

"I'm sure we can find a way out that sticky situation." shr giggled as the two friends headed to the place of the incident.

On the way, though AJ noticed something is different with her friend. Twilight, instead of watching the road rather stared at the scenery or the sky, and eventually tripping in a rock.

"You alright hun? You're a bit hocus-pocused today." the earth pony noted.

"It's just... it's so different without Silence. I miss her voice, her kindness, her passion." Twilight responded with a sigh following her statement.

Applejack gave a strange, questioning look at her friend, then looked back at the road and replied "Well, I'm a lil' glad she is not here. I mean, she IS nice an' kind an' stuff, but those eyes, those strange things on her flank, that wierd way she flies, it jus' doesn' hit mah fancy when somepony's that much of a special snowflake."

The last two words made Twilight stop for a moment "A special snowflake?" she asked, "...A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE! Applejack you're a genius." she shouted, putting both her hooves on her friends back as she stood in front of her.

"I'm a what now?"

"Don't you see? Silence is way more different than other ponies, she is special, so the odd-shaped cutie mark is a black snowflake since it also counts as special." the jovial unicorn explained as she began to lead the way forwards.

"Uh, don't wanna ruin your theory but somethin' is a bit off here. You can't earn a cutie mark just for being special." AJ interrupted.

"That's true, but Silence wasn't born special, she did many things to be different than the others. Art, poetry, music, literature, you have to learn all these. I guess the feeling of being different influenced her so much she wants to be unique as many ways as she can."

"Ya' really think that's the case?" asked the farmer doubtfully.

"For now, that seems as the most logical reason. Only she knows the truth." replied Twilight, suddenly dropping her cheerfulness and looking forward, right at her friend's house, when a voice interrupted from above.

"That girl is up to something, I'm sure."

"Rainbow Dash! Are ya spying on us or somethin'?" shouted AJ upwards in surprise.

"And what do you mean by that?" asked Twilight with a sightly high-tempered voice.

"Nah, chill out guys, I was just taking a nap when I heard you coming by." the pegasus replied as she flew down "But that Silence girl, she is doing something. Didn't you notice how Celestia became a regular visitor since she came, and all those strange events like the one today? I bet she's behind them all." whispered Dash.

"Rainbow Dash!" shouted up Twilight in fury "I'm extremely disappointed at you. Silence would do nothing like that, even if she could. She is a gentle, artistic and clever pegasus, regardless of all her... strangeness."

Dash took a look around a took a step forwards Twilight, whispering these words "Think what you want, Twi, but when you see her on the other side, don't run to me crying." Finishing her sentence, the pegasus flew away with a grumpy face.

"Don' mind her suga'cube." comforted her AJ.

Twilight let out a sigh, and began to continue her way forward. "I know... I wish I could make them trust each other a little more..." she said.

The apple trees around were all harvested, their leaves all yellow and orange. However the smell of apples could be already felt calling from the cellar. Applejack opened the door, the entire cellar was smelling from the apple cider. Twilight felt the sugar of the dried cider sticking on her hooves. After a few more seconds of looking around as she kept stamping in one place, she stopped, her horn glowing, her body bending over as she began to perform some sort of magic.

The cellar began to glow purple all around as some wierd white layer began to appear. After it got thicker and thicker, suddenly it popped off as some popcorn, with the difference being that they were sugarcubes. The now not sticky, not disgusting sugar covered up the floor.

Applejack started giggling "Nice, thank ya.... suga' cube." she laughed.

Twilight wiped off the sweat, smiled back and with another little trick she piled up the sweets.

"Are you sure you can handle that?" she asked.

"Don' worry Twi, from here we can take care of things. Thank you so much." replied AJ, even grabbing and shaking the hoof of her friend.

"Anytime." chuckled back Twilight, then waving back she left the farm.

It felt nice to help a friend... a friend... Twilight, the futher she walked the worse she felt deep in her heart. It mugged her that Rainbow might be right, after all she found a book filled with dangerous and forbidden spells right in Silence's bed. What could have been more obvious than that? Yet still, Silence couldn't use them, she is a pegasus after all, isn't she? The entire thing made no sense, and maybe this chaos, that mysteriousness was what strenghtened unicorn's feelings towards her. Twilight was aware of what she felt towards Silence wasn't friendship anymore.