My Little Pony: Skye Dubson

Chapter III: The Heroism

As the day became evening and the sky became a deeper shade of blue, Skye and the six were continuing of their journey to the town, in which he'd been run out of previously. Skye though about how bad humans must have been for him to see the malice in Twilights eyes. "Does any… pony hate me?" he asked. Twilight stopped, and sighed. Then she slowly turned around and looked at him,

"No, we don't hate you, you have proven to be good, kind, intellectual, if we did hate you, we would have destroyed you when we had the chance" she said. Skye face-palmed and then shrugged.

He looked at the other ponies, Fluttershy, who wasn't as scared as before, "Fluttershy?" he asked. She looked at him, with fear in her eyes, she was scared, and she was trying to keep it back though,

"Yes?" she asked with a quiet voice. Skye blushed,

"It doesn't matter, I can ask you later" he said. Fluttershy shrugged it off and carried on looking ahead of her. He looked at Rainbow Dash too.

"Rainbow Dash?" he asked. She looked at him, in her eyes there was only hate.

"Yes?" she said through gritted teeth while turning back around.

"Why do you hate me in particular?" he asked. Rainbow Dash coughed, and ignored him. Skye ran up to her, until he was by her side, "Hello? Miss little irritated-", he said, before Rainbow Dash turned and punched him in the cheek, causing him to stumble backwards. "What the hell!" he shouted. Rainbow got in his face,

"Don't ever speak to me, you worthless, insolent piece of garbage!" she shouted, spitting on him and spreading her wings.

"You know", said Skye, "I never thought someone as pretty as you would be so… feisty" he said sarcastically. She looked at him with pure hate and sped away in a blur or colours, like before. Skye looked at Twilight, "You know, I'm gonna assume that if someone leaves, it means they have no trust or respect for me" he said. Twilight only nodded. Skye looked at Pinkie, but she shook her head, as did Rarity, he got back up and they started walking again.

Skye remembered Applejack, "Hey, urm, Applejack?" he asked. Applejack ran over to him,

"What is it?" she asked. Skye outstretched his hand,

"Is it alright if I pet you? I usually tend to want to pet something when I'm upset or feeling like dirt" he begged. Applejack looked at Twilight, and so did Skye, she didn't look back.

"Well, I suppose it couldn't hurt" she said, "And, what is petting?" she asked. Skye stopped and started laughing. Twilight must have taken this in offense, because she quickly turned around and encased him in a mist of purple sparkling aura, which shaped into an orb.

Skye banged on the inside, "Hey, let me out!" he shouted. He stopped and realized it was useless. They couldn't hear him. Skye was Applejack outside the orb, arguing with Applejack. He looked at Fluttershy, he felt like crying, again. It didn't seem fair to him that ponies hated him when they hadn't even met him properly. "Talking ponies, that is a very childish thing. I suppose that this town has some "Cliché hidden secret" and I gotta help" he said, then sighed again.

Twilight looked at the ground and the mist and the orb disappeared. They were getting closer to the town, along the way losing Pinkie and Rarity. Skye was worried since only half of these 6 ponies left. "Fluttershy, I wanna ask you something" he said. Fluttershy looked at him,

"What is it Skye?" she timidly asked. Skye smiled,

"Earlier in the library, how come you assumed I might not be evil?" he asked.

"Is that what you were going to ask a few minutes ago?" she asked, full of curiosity. Skye blushed again,

"No, no, but why?" he said again. Fluttershy also blushed,

"Well, I… suppose I knew you weren't evil, because if you were, you could have destroyed us when you woke up, but you didn't" she said.

She looked at the sky, "It's about time to feed Angel, I wouldn't want him to wait, poor thing, I'm going to have to say goodbye for now Skye" she said. She spread her wings in a similar fashion to Rainbow dash, but didn't speed away. Instead, she steadily flapped her wings, staying close to the ground,

"That's cute" said Skye; he looked around his head, where little hearts seemed to be orbiting his head. "Applejack, why are heart shaped things blocking my view?" he asked. Applejack looked at him, then at Fluttershy,

"Wait, did you…? Haha, that's precious" she giggled.

"What, did I fall in love or something?" he asked. Applejack pointed a hoof at Fluttershy,

"I think you fell for her" she said, trying to hold back sniggers. Then she stared at his eyes,

"You really aren't evil, are you? You can't be. No human has ever fallen for a pony, ever" she said, getting a bit more serious.

"Well, thanks for that Applejack, but I wanna make a good impact on the ponies here, I don't want to be outcast again" he said, reaching his hand out.

Applejack backed away from his hand, "What're doing?" she asked. Skye looked at his hand,

"Oh that's petting, when I run my ringers through your mane, or stroke you. It's what humans usually do with their… pets" he said, mumbling "pets". Applejack got close to his hand,

"So, no harm involved?" she asked, getting better trust in him. He shook his head,

"Nah, it's like…" he said, but couldn't compare it to anything. Applejack wasn't sure still,

"Maybe later" she said. Skye nodded,

"Okie dokie lokie" he said.

Applejack stared at him, "What?" she said. Skye frowned,

"Did I do something wrong?" he replied, getting a bit scared. Applejack stood next to Twilight,

"That's what Pinkie always says" she said, looking curiously at the emotion on his face.

"Really, I've said that for as long as I can remember" he said. Applejack looked over towards the town getting closer to them,

"Well, I do trust you Skye, but I think Twilight needs to help you… alone" she said, then looked at Twilight. "Seeya" she shouted as she trotted off. Only Skye and Twilight remained.

They walked towards the town, which seemed much bigger than before, but that was probably because he was running before. "Twilight, if you hate me, say it to my face. It's fine, I have no friends at home, and I wouldn't be upset or angry. In fact, I'd be pretty happy if you said you really don't hate me, I actually might cry tears of joy" he said. Twilight stopped again,

"You know why I hate humans?" she asked, getting impatient, "I hate you because you talk too much, you don't what you're doing half the time and when you don't get what you want you whine about it. The worst part is you get upset too easily or angry or displeased!" she shouted, and started breathing heavily.

Skye stopped and slouched to a sitting position, "That's a heartless thing to say, even to something you assume is evil", he said, "Tell you what, how about I go and die in a pit?" he said. Twilight looked at him, and something sparked in her eyes,

"GOOD!" she shouted in his face. Skye put a hand on her shoulder, "Twilight, are… you okay?" he asked. Twilight put her muzzle right against his nose,

"Don't touch me!" she shouted. Skye removed his hand,

"Something is obviously troubling you, I can tell, I don't know why. What is it?" he asked. Twilight ran backwards,

"Wait, did you… see it?" she asked. Her face started to become less heartless.

"As in I kinda saw something shine in your eyes?" he said, "Yes, I saw that, why?" he asked. Twilight ran over to him and put her hooves around his waist,

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she said.

Skye was confused, "Twilight, please tell me why you are hugging me and ten seconds ago you might've ripped my face off?" he asked. She gleamed with happiness now,

"You saw the sparkle, any human who sees that is not evil, even a little bit of evil stops a human seeing that. But you saw it, you have to be entirely good!" she shouted, she started bouncing.

"Well, can you please lead me to town, so we can get this sorted out?" he asked. She said yes and grinned,

"Definitely!" she shouted, she grabbed his hand apparently with a hoof and started dragging him towards the outskirts of the town.

She didn't stop bouncing, and when they arrived at the town, she said, "Stay here while I get the mayor!" and bounced off. Skye smiled,

"Oh my god, she smiled, and she's happy, because of something I did!" he giggled; He did a little dance and stopped as he heard voices coming. "Crap, erm…" he mumbled as he crouched into a small bush, although his head wasn't hidden.

"So Lyra, what do you plan on doing when she arrives?" said another female voice. Are they any males here? Skye looked around a tree to see two ponies, but only one of them was in the crowd, she was a light beige colour, with navy blue and cotton candy pinkie colours in her name. She had a tattoo of three candies on her flank and aqua eyes. The other one was aqua, with an aqua mane with one white stripe in it. She also had sunset orange eyes; she was probably Lyra, as her tattoo was a harp, or a lyre.

"Nothing much, I'm supposed to be helping a few other unicorns with banners and stuff" she said. The two ponies trotted past rather quickly, as if they were late for something. Or maybe they saw him, Skye preferred the former. Anyway they were gone and Skye was waiting for Twilight to come back. After around what seemed to be twenty minutes, Skye decided to leave his current position and look for the library. He got out from the bush and slipped beside a tree. He looked around cautiously before sneaking towards a building. He hid below the window of an old looking building.

He scurried around the building, avoiding the sight of ponies here and there. He looked up at the sky and saw it was about four pm. He saw Pinkie in a shop window, talking to a blue pony, which looked at least twice Pinkie's age. She seemed to be ordering something. Pinkie got a metal plate with some muffins on it and passed it over using her hooves. The logic in this world made no sense, however, it was a shop and the older mare hadn't paid, so Skye assumed they both worked there and the muffins were for a party or something.

"Skye, where are you?" came Twilight's voice from where he had been waiting for her to come back. He looked at her, trying to find him and couldn't get to her due to ponies crossing the street between them. Skye spotted an old piece of paper on the floor, a receipt of some sort. He picked it up and folded it into a paper plane shape, which was actually quite sturdy. The physics of this world made little to none sense. He waited until no ponies were around and then scribbled "Over here" on it. He wrote it with a pen he had in his shirt pocket, which he always took to work.

As he got ready to throw it, he didn't see a mare coming round a corner and he threw it. It hit the mare straight in the face. She looked at him. Skye couldn't move; he felt like this was it; he was going to be outcast again. Instead of running, or giving away his position, she just stared at him. She was grey, with a blonde mane and orange eyes; which were the most intriguing aspect of her. Her eyes were somewhat out of alignment. She looked like she had a disability of some sort, Skye didn't judge her though, because he himself had one, ADHD, though a low form. He had trouble understanding some things and his mood changed quickly sometimes.

"Sorry, I meant to give it to Twilight over there" is all he could think to say. To Skye's surprise, the mare wasn't scared, or angry. Instead she looked over to Twilight, picked up the plane and said,

"Well, I am the mail-pony. I'll give it to her", and with that she walked off. She reached Twilight and passed her the plane, then pointed at Skye's location. Twilight gleamed again and sped over, faster than a bullet.

"Skye", she started, to which he nodded, "I have requested a meeting with Princess Celestia to meet you, I told her about the thing, and the spark, me, and…" at this point she started to find it hard to breathe. Skye put his hand on her muzzle,

"Twilight, take a deep breathe… And calm your passions" he said.

Twilight blinked, then apparently grabbed his hand with a hoof again and dragged him into the middle of the street, where a bunch of ponies saw him, "That was a fool proof plan, wasn't it?" he asked, sarcastically. Twilight remembered that not all the ponies trusted him yet and tried to push him back into the ally way where he'd moved from the window. It was too late, the ponies saw him and were either trying to escape or kill him, or worse. Skye backed into a corner as Twilight watched, and she did something that shocked Skye, since her behaviour earlier.

She jumped in front of him and shouted, "Wait!" which stopped the ponies. Twilight stood there, ready to protect him. "Don't protect the human!" a pony shouted. Another said,

"He's using you!", and other ponies shouted other things. Twilight sighed,

"If you would all just listen-"she started, but the ponies just kept shouting. Some of them just had weapons out of nowhere, and some were still trying to retreat. Twilight's mane seemed to become fire as she shouted suddenly, "LISTEN!", she started, then settled down, "He saw it, and you should all know what I'm talking about and what it means" she said.

"Twilight?" Skye asked, and Twilight turned around,

"What?" she asked. Suddenly, from somewhere in the crowd, a black pony shouted,

"She's possessed!", and ran towards Twilight with a spear,

"Seriously?" thought Skye as he lunged forward. He pushed Twilight out of the way of the spear and she landed on front of another bunch of ponies who gasped. Skye wasn't sure if they gasped for his bravery, another pony going to kill a friend or himself getting impaled… WAIT, WHAT?!

Skye looked down to his stomach, where a wooden spear had penetrated his skin and gone through one of his organs, a kidney maybe? Skye looked at the Skye, then at the pony. He could only mumble three words, "You… Happy now?" he asked, before falling over sideward and feeling the sharp pain get worse. He couldn't pass out as much as he tried, he could only see Twilight and about three other ponies running towards him.

His vision became blurred and he could only hear a faint gathering of voices, some clear, others not. He tried to move but failed. Twilight was right beside him, "Skye, hang in there! The hospital is only a mile away" she said, but Skye couldn't hang in there, and gave in to the wound again and the last thing he saw was a white blob saying one word, but he couldn't hear what it was.