What It's Like To Call This Place Home

Echo put Twilight in a similar sling to the one Dimitri had use in the final part of their escape from earth, Atlus had informed him that teleporting my cause more damage, so it was to the skies for them. Once up past the clouds, Echo had uncovered Twi's head, allowing her to see the sights of Ponyville, without the press stalking her like injured prey. "Where do you want to go?"

"How about Fluttershy's cottage, she can keep anypony calm." Echo nodded, gliding slowly towards the small, secluded cottage, once within view Echo could see Dimitri dragging a large log, into a clearing of dirt, about fifty yards away from the cottage. After a few seconds, Atlus appeared next to Dimitri, talking and pointing in their direction. Dimitri nodded, then disappeared, reappearing next to Echo.

"Do you need any help? Or do you want me to get Flutters?" Dimitri's left arm was visibly trembling.

"Could you get Fluttershy?" Twilight looked at him. He nodded, disappearing.

After a few mor minutes, they touched down onto the small bridge, Echo walked into the house, where Fluttershy was frantically fixing her coffee table to be used as a makeshift stretcher. "Place her, stomach down, on the table, and the procedure can begin, I have already debriefed the others of the situation." After Echo set her down, Dimitri walked Echo into his work room, witch had been converted into a surgical room, it was lit as best as possible. Echo looked to Dimitri.

"Why isn't the procedure taking place down here?"

Dimitri pressed a switch, and a white stretcher rose from the ground. "It is, Atlus is preparing her for the procedure."

"How?"

"He is informing her that you and I can't be in here for the procedure, but Fluttershy is allowed, so that she can keep Twilight calm." Dimitri walked under the hatch, hitting a button a platform rose, after a few seconds it came back down with Dimitri holding the table. Twilight was engulfed in a red aura, then she was levitated onto the stretcher, as Atlus and Fluttershy appeared in the room.

Echo kissed twilight "Be strong, I'll be just upstairs if you absolutely need me."

She smiled "Okey..."

Dimitri walked to the elevator hatch exit "C'mon Echo, I've got some questions for ya." As Dimitri turned to look, the elevator started up, Echo standing beside him. Once the hatch closed, Dimitri led Echo to the couch "It was him, wasn't it?"

Echo looked down "Yea, and I wasn't there to save her." Echo tooled into Dimitri's living and mechanical eyes "He can't be allowed to live this time!"

"Do you know how long I've been trying to kill him? The whole time I've been on earth, I've been trying to kill him, without releasing him. But apparently, he wants to feel pain when I kill him."

Once Dimitri finished that sentence an orange mare, with a purple mane walked into the cottage "Mom, I'm home! One of my friends told me that dad has retur-" she paused as she noticed Echo and a bigger version of her little sister, but it looked bored. "Wh-who are you?"

Dimitri picked up a picture off the couch-side table, showing it of her he said "Dose he look familiar?" While pointing at himself in the picture.

"Dad?" She looked at him, Echo started laughing.

"What's so funny?" Both the Pegasus, and Dimitri asked in unison.

Echo moved to Dimitri's side "She had a bet with me!"

"What was this bet?"

She looked embarrassed "Hey, PK is in the bet to!"

"What was the bet?" Dimitri was getting impatient.

"She thought, along with PK, that the human military had killed you. So I made a bet with them! If I won, she has to move to a closer high school location, and PK had to start high school!"

At this Dimitri burst out laughing "And PK went along with this?! Considering how shy he is?"

"Eeyup!" Echo and Dimitri continued to laugh for several minutes, Scootaloo getting irritated.

"It's not funny! Now I have to be in the same school as Diamond Tiara again!" She huffed "Is there any way to confines you to let stay in the same school?"

"Nnope!" Dimitri calmed down "Don't worry, you'll have PK, and your friends to help you!" He looked to Echo "Hey now one of Equestria's best soldiers is in high school!" They continued to laugh for more than half an hour, until the hatch to the basement started to slowly go down.

Echo held his Breath as the elevator rose, holding Atlus, Fluttershy, and a standing Twilight, he rushed to her side. "How'd it go?"

"She will require one more checkup in two weeks, for me to insure her spinal column has been correctly settled back into place, and the nerves were completely healed. You ar not to allow her to walk farther than the distance from her bed to the front door." Atlus looked at her "But, all and all, it was a success, and do not worry, the checkup will be completely painless."

"You should apply at the Ponyville hospital, it wasn't as painful as you made out..." Twilight said while looking to him.

"That is because, when you tell someone that a required procedure is worse than it actually is, they mentally prepare for the worst, unknowingly dulling the much smaller pain that actually occurs." He looked at Echo "do you require any assistance in getting her back into the sling?"

"Nnope." Echo said, while scooping twilight up, and depositing her into the sling. "Peace, we'll see you all later!" Echo stated while flying out of the building, and into the knight air.