A Lost Cause

When not away at war, Shruko found himself doing the same things, in the morning he got his coffee, then he would take a walk around Ponyville, after that he'd either go to Sugarcube corner and get something to eat, hang out in the park, or fly around if there was truly nothing else to do. But not today, today just like very year, he'd go to the edge of town and put a flower on his parents graves. He picked up his helmet, put it on and walked out of the door. Something was odd about today, but he couldn't put his hoof on it. "Hey, Shruko!" yelled a familiar voice, it was none other than Pinkie Pie, bouncing up and down. "Hello, Pinkie." He replied and looked at her. "What cha doing? You gonna come to the Sugarcube corner? Me and the Cakes have done something really special for you." Pinkie explained, "Maybe later, Pinkie, right now I have to go see something, But I promise, I will come see this surprise." Shruko said, as he continued walking. Pinkie sighed "But its reaaaaaaaaaaaally really really really important you come see right now!" Pinkie pleaded. Shruko stopped in his place. "Ok, Pinkie... Tell me, whats so important that it can't wait 5 damn minutes...?" Shruko asked, turning to the pink mare. She grabbed him by the hoof, basically dragging hm "Come see! Come seeeeeeeee!" Inside his helmet Shruko rolled his eyes, knowing he can't stop her at this point. "Fine, but could you just let me go? I'm no foal I can walk myself, Pinkie." She, of course, didn't listen and continued to drag him.

In almost no time they were at Sugarcube Corner. "And you can't tell me why you're dragging me here why?" Shruko complained, "It's a surprise, silly!" Pinkie said, Shruko made her stop in place. "Pinkie I'm a hardened killer, I'd say that as far from silly as you can get." Shruko explained. "But, you're still the same Shruko before you enlisted and that Shruko was really silly!" He sighed in defeat. "True," He complied. "But really, what is so impor-"   He was stopped by pinkie opening the door and a few ponies yelling "Surprise!!!" Shuko took his helmet off too see if it was messing up. "W-What is this...?" Shruko said, dumbfounded. "It's your birthday party, silly!" Pinkie exclaimed. "It was all Twilight's idea, she-"Pinkie was stopped by the purple mare "Pinkie had noticed that she had thrown everypony in Ponyville a birthday party except you, so I came up with the idea to use the time traveling spell to go back to when you were born which is today." Twilight explained to the shocked stallion. "B-But today is..." Shruko said, before he was stopped again, this time by another stallion "Today is the day your parents died looking for you oh boo hoo" Shruko's facial expression changed from shock to disgust. The voice was familiar, too familiar. The stallions voice rang over and over in his head "So he's a blank flank, an idiot, parentless AND a crybaby. This day can not get any better." Shruko was on the ground, hooves over his head. The stallion spoke up again. "What are you gonna do, man, CRY?" Shruko stopped shaking. "No..." He suddenly shot up with his wings. Shruko grabbed the brown stallion threw him outside. He was soon followed Shruko ad grabbed his horn and pinning him to the ground. "Now it's time to repay you for the years of torment you gave me." Shruko growled. "Wait, wait. I-It was all just a joke, come on. Everypony needs a laugh every once in a while." The brown stallion pleaded, but it only further angered the pegasus. "Yeah, now its time for everypony to laugh at you." Shruko growled again. By now a group of the party goers and two more of the mane six surrounded the two stallions. "Whats goin' on Twi?" Applejack asked. Twilight explained that today is Shruko's birthday and how when the brown stallion spoke up Shruko blacked out and when he said something else Shruko snapped. She was cut off from explaining further due to a sickening crackand a bloodcurdling scream. "Fluttershy what happened?" Applejack asked the yellow mare. "H-He..." She stopped. "He broke that unicorn's..." She continued again. "He broke that unicorns horn." Fluttershy said before fainting and falling on Applejack. Shruko looked down at the brown stallion now writhing in pain. "Now... TIME TO END IT!!!" Shruko screamed followed by a maniacal laugh. He brought down the dismembered horn but was stopped by a loud boom. "It's princess Luna!" one mare exclaimed. "Shruko!! That is enough!!!" Princess Luna said, using her royal equestrian voice. He slowly came back to his senses. "W-What...? Princess Luna...?" Shruko said. "Shruko, what has gotten into you?" Luna asked. "I-I don't know..." He said looking down. "D-Did I do this...?" He asked, dropping the horn. Luna extended her hoof to help him up. "Shruk, come to Canterlot Castle, we need to see whats wrong, you come to Twilight Sparkle." "Ok, Luna." Twilight said. But SHruko only nodded.

At the castle Shruko was escorted to the throne room. Celestia, Luna, and Twilight. Celestia was the first to speak up. "Well, Shruko. Would you like to explain what happened?" Shruko sat in front of the three princesses. "I-I don't know..." Celestia nodded. and turned to Twilight. "Twilight Sparkle?" She said. "Ok, so Pinkie was throwing Shruko a party because we found out that his birthday was today so we invited everypony that he knew, and one pony spoke up and he just, snapped." Twilight said. "And-" She said before she was cut off by Luna. "Wait, that was the same colt from your reoccurring dream. That means-" Luna was cut off by Twilight. "That means when he snapped all the pent up rage was released. turning you into a different Shruko." Twilight finished. "I-I didn't mean to hurt anypony... Honest." Shruko spoke up. Luna looked down at him. "I know you didn't, Shruko, I know you too well." Celestia closed her eyes and nodded. "Very well. Go home, Shruko, get some rest." She said. "T-Thank you, Princess Celestia..." Shruko said and flew out of the castle. Celestia and Twilight turned to look at Luna. "You've become quite attached to him, sister." Celestia said. "What do you two do when you disappear from the castle?" Luna blinked. "I don't know what you're talking about, sister. All I do is go comfort him when he has that dream." Luna explained. "Yeah, you have been disappearing a lot when Shruko is home." Twilight added. "You have feelings for him, don't you Luna?" "Twilight Sparkle what are you talking about?" Luna replied. "He's been having that dream a lot recently. So I go comfort him, that's all." Twilight then teleported to Luna. "Come on, Luna, be honest. You like him, don't you?" Luna closed her eyes and pushed Twilight out of her face. "Look, Twilight Sparkle, I taught him about the night, he learned. Now we are friends, ok?" Luna explained slowly. "Suuuuuuuuuuuuure." Twilight replied. "Twilight Sparkle." Celestia said. "That's enough." Luna got up and walked to the balcony. "I'm going to raise the moon." She said. When she got to the balcony she sighed. "Besides... He doesn't like me like that... Does he...?" She muttered as she raised her sentient being.