What It's Like To Call This Place Home

Echo flung the doors open with a triumphant smile, Celestia moved towards him "And what are you so happy about? Did she exile him?" Echo's smile died.

"No. But they are now a couple!" After saying this Celestia's jaw dropped. Echo began laughing "I win!"

Dimitri put his had on Celestia's shoulder "He has always been able to help anyone with emotional problems... But up until he met Twilight, he could never help himself."

Celestia burst through the door, staring at Cosmic and Luna leaning against each other, she saw that her sister was finally truly happy, making her smile "Cosmic Plane, you may stay as long as you like... But if you hurt my sister again, the royal guard will be the least of your worries."

Cosmic, and Luna looked at Celestia "Thank you." Cosmic smiled.

Echo opened the door "Twi, you home? You never showed up at the palace. Echo noticed the library was wrecked, as though there was a fight "Okey Twi, you can come out now!" He said as he walked into the home, he found a letter pinned to the wall by an arrow. "What the hell?"

-Echo, if you want your precious allicorn back, be at Ghastly Gorge tonight, alone.

-Anitchka

Echo stared in disbelief for several minutes, before opening his wings. He smashed through a window, instead of going through the door. "If there's even one hair missing from her head, you will be dead!" His knuckles turned to diamond as he slowly boosted into turbo.

After a minute of high speed flying, Echo reached his destination, Ghastly Gorge. He went into full cloak, searching for his missing love, once he spotted her, his rage boosted, she was in a cage surrounded by inhabitants of the area. While they were trying to gain access, he landed quietly on top of the cage. His cloak deactivated, exposing him to the creatures. In an attempt to rescue Twilight, he led the creatures into a cave, a few minutes later he returned, grabbed the cage, then lifted it into the air, flying up into the clouds, he stopped when he was at the correct altitude, created a sapphire clone of himself, capable of flight. He handed the cage to the clone, pulling two bars apart, he woke her up. "Echo? Oh thank Celestia it's you! Sombre turned me back into a unicorn!"

She almost started to cry, but echo stopped her "I don't care what shape you take, you are still the mare I fell in love with." Echo picked her up, and out of the cage, causing the clone to die, falling to the ground below. "Now lets go home."

"And what might I ask, was the point of me taking her allicorn status away?" Sombre stared angrily into Anitchka's eyes.

"I siphoned the extra magic that her Unicorn form released, and now I can use the weapon that you are charging your magic to create." Anitchka smiled, as another wave of changeling soldiers teleported into their cave "Go, and introduce the new recruits to the rest of our forces, I have a meeting to attend to..." Anitchka disappeared.

Anitchka reappeared in a white room. "This room seems to orderly if your job is to create chaos..." He felt the walls 'hmmm, there fake' he sat in a chair "I'm here, you can come out now."

"Oh, I don't think I will... But tell me, what is your plan? What is the point of those banned war creatures? And why are you amassing them?"

"I'm going to take over Equestria, slaughter millions, and make the *princesses* watch as I slowly kill the elements of harmony, starting with Pinkie, and ending with Fluttershy." He began laughing.

"What's so funny?" Discord's voice sounding angry.

"You have just gotten me to monologue, and quite frankly I don't give a living damn, now goodbye, my little pest." Anitchka disappeared.

Echo woke up sitting in a bedside chair, Twilight shifted "Hey, you awake?" Twilight opened her eyes, nodding to Echo. "You wanna try standing again? If it doesn't work again, I'll call Atlus, okey?"

"Okey." She slid herself to the edge of the bed, then tried to stand, catching her balance she looked at him "See, I told you that I just needed some sl-" she stopped as she started to fall, only to be caught, and placed back into the bed by Echo.

"You are not moving until Atlus confirms that there's no trauma to your spinal column." Echo sat back into the chair "Atlus, can you hear me? I repeat, Atlus can you hear me?"

-"Affirmative, what is it that you require, Echo?"-

"I need a medical scan of Twilight, how soon can you come over?"

-"How serious is it?"-

"She can't stand, at all."

Atlus appeared in the center of the room. "That is a very serious problem." He walked over to the bedside "Can you please lie on your stomach, the scan may take anywhere from a few seconds to a couple hours, depending on the severity of the damage."

"Okey." She said as she rolled onto he stomach.

Atlus held both hands an inch from her back, and he began moving his hands up and down the length of her spine, his palms glowed white. Thirty minutes of this process he spoke, while not stopping the scan "Seven fracture points, four torn ligaments, three spots of severe nerve damage, spinal cord completely intact." Echo released a breath he had no clue he'd been holding "You are lucky Dimitri had chosen to bring me through the portal here, had I not been here she would never use her hind legs again, but the healing process is an odd, extremely painful, and complex. But unluckily we can not use pain killer for said procedure."

"Why not?" Echo and twilight asked in unison.

"Using pain killer would cause the procedure to fail, with a 99.9% chance of causing more damage. Do you wish to continue, might I add, she can be moved somewhere more peaceful and relaxing, it might help distract from the pain." Atlus looked at Echo, not stopping the scan "How did this damage occur? There are no creature that would cause this through damage, and not kill the target."

"I'll tell you." Twilight said, making both Echo, and Atlus look to her. "They didn't only use a spell to remove my Alicorn status. Anitchka ripped my wings out, then Sombre cast the spell to physically turn me back to a unicorn." She looked at the opposite wall "They used an ancient form of dishonorably removing the status... The way was reserved for traitors, or those who committed an otherwise unpublishable crime..." A tear rolled down her cheek.

Echo moved to console her "I don't know if it'll help, but I kinda preferred you as a unicorn, we didn't have to worry about too much attention, bad publicity, or ponies trying to be friends with you or I for the political power, just you and I. Don't get me wrong I was beyond prows of you, but you were born as a unicorn, not an Alicorn... And you look much better as a unicorn." Echo made her look at him. "No matter what you look like, I will always love you, Twilight Sparkle, for who you are."