My Little Pony: The Human Chronicles

Episode 26: Secret Birth Story

Another day was about to begin at Cheerilee's schoolhouse and many of the school ages fillies and colts were heading for schoolhouse where Miss Cheerilee was just about to begin teaching. Apple Bloom and her friends were the next to enter the schoolhouse followed by the bullies known as Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.

"Hi, Miss Cheerilee!" They all said in unison as they entered the school, with their saddle bags all ready to go.

"Oh hello girls, good to see you all!" Miss Cheerilee said, warmly.

"Good to see you to, Miss Cheerilee!" Apple Bloom smiled.

"We're ready for today's lesson!" Sweetie Belle added.

"Yeah, what they said." Scootaloo muttered, quickly.

"So glad to hear it." Cheerilee said, happily.

"Suck ups." Diamond Tiara whispered. She and Silver Spoon giggled while the CMC gave them annoyed glares.

"Buzz off Diamond Tiara." Apple Bloom told her.

"Yeah!" Sweetie Belle added.

"What she said." Scootaloo stated.

"Make us." Silver Spoon countered, smugly.

"Alright girls, that's enough, please take your seats." Miss Cheerilee said to them all.

"Fine…" The girls all said as they walked off to do just that.

Pretty soon, everypony in the class was seated at their individual desks as Cheerilee as she trotted behind her desk. "Alright class, before we start our lesson for today, I would like to remind you all of our annual talent show that will be happening this Saturday."

As she was talking to the class, Diamond Tiara, who was seated in the back was looking at all three of the Cutie Mark Crusaders with a disapproving look.

"Who do they think they are?" she muttered.

As Cheerilee spoke Diamond Tiara rolled up a piece of paper on her desk and tossed it at Apple Bloom, bonking her on the head. She growled, annoyed and gave Diamond Tiara an annoyed glare as she giggled to herself while Silver Spoon shot a spit ball at a soon to be sleeping Sweetie Belle who snapped out of it when it hit her.

"Rarity I didn't do it!" she proclaimed, loudly. This caused everypony in the class to look at her and laugh which made her blush in embarrassment.

Cheerilee turned to her. "I'm sorry Sweetie Belle, did you have something to say?" she asked.

"Uh… no! No thank you!" The filly said quickly.

"Good, then back to our lesson." The teacher said, turning back to the board. Not noticing the CMC all glaring at the two snobby fillies behind them.

Time went by slowly until the bell rang for lunch and recess. "Alright class, we will continue after lunch." Ms Cheerilee told her students as they got up and started to go outside. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were the last to leave and only stop when they hear a familiar filly call out to them.

"Oh blank flanks!"

They look ahead and frown when they see Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon nearby.

"What do you two want?" Apple Bloom demanded.

"Yeah, haven't we suffered enough?" Sweetie Belle questioned.

"Hmm, let me think… no." Diamond Tiara responded, smugly.

"Face it, as long as you three don't have Cutie Marks, you'll always be losers." Silver Spoon added.

"We're losers? You're the ones with the lame song and dance!" Scootaloo pointed out.

"Oh, you mean this?" Diamond Tiara asked as she and Silver Spoon began to do their signature song and dance.

"Bump! Bump! Sugar-lump, rump!" They sang and giggled, much to the CMC's annoyance.

"Look, if you two don't leave us along right now…" Scootaloo began.

"And you'll what? Oh that's right; nothing!" The snobby pink filly stated, bluntly.

"Exactly, I mean… whose going to make us?" Her glasses wearing best friend added.

Something then started to rise up behind them. Their little tirade gave way to scared little squeals' as they turn toward it. They looked up and saw Toby himself looming over them with bright, glowing angry eyes.

"Remember me?" he asked.

The color drained from both of their faces, indicating that they do indeed have a very clear memory of their first run-in with this. They both started to shake with fear until Toby finally broke the tension.

"Boo."

After he said this the two snobbish fillies screamed at the top of their lungs and started running for the hills.

"Hey, you three ok?" Toby asked them.

"Yeah, we're good, thanks." Scootaloo said, gratefully.

"Ah, no problem, always here to help." Toby smiled. "So what are you three up to now?"

"Well we're all gonna prepare for our school's annual talent show this Saturday!" Apple Bloom responded.

"And we're going try to get our skiing cutie marks!" Sweetie Belle added.

"Yeah, hopefully it'll go better then we tried zip lining." The orange filly said.

"Why… would you three zip line?" Toby inquired, flatly.

"Well… Spike told us it might work." Apple Bloom replied. "It said it was awesome."

"You took advice from Spike? The baby dragon?" Toby questioned, incredulously.

Scootaloo's face fell. "It's called hitting rock bottom, Toby."

"Well… if you say so." Toby shrugged.

"So how's training with Luna been?" Apple Bloom asked, curiously.

"Great! She's been teaching me all sorts of cool tricks!" Toby said, with a seemingly positive smile. "For starters…"

Toby grabbed a pebble, tossed it into the air and snapped his finger, which glowed with a faint blue glow and in just a few seconds dozens of confused looking goats filled the area around them. Toby looked especially surprised.

"Uh… goats?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Hmm… they were supposed to tigers…" Toby muttered.

"Tigers? Cool!" Scootaloo remarked before Toby snapped his fingers and made them all disappear, then the pebble reappeared. Toby floated it back over, plus two others and put them on the trio's heads.

"And I can also do this!" Toby said as he snapped his fingers, made the pebble stretch and twist a bit before transforming them into fancy looking hats, except for Scootaloo's which was a hat made out rock that made her sink to the ground.

"Seriously?" she asked in a deadpan tone.

"Sorry… still working on it…" Toby admitted, sheepishly. "Which reminded me… I'd better get going, don't want to keep Luna waiting… any longer…"

"How long have you been keeping her waiting anyways?" Apple Bloom asked, curiously.

"Uh… an hour…" Toby responded.

"Seriously? You made a Princess wait for a whole hour?" Sweetie Belle inquired, incredulously.

"Hey, she made me do a hundred sit ups and a ten mile hike, this is payback short and simple." Toby stated. "Plus the last time she lectured me… I wanted to rip my own ears off!"

"And did you?" Sweetie Belle asked, curiously. Which made Scootaloo roll her eyes.

"Nah… I didn't have the guts… just be grateful that Cheerilee is nice and not as hard as see is. Remember; appreciate what you have." Toby instructed them, as he began to walk off. "Well… see ya around."

Toby then speeded away from the school house. The CMC all watched him go.

"Boy… I bet it's great being him." Apple Bloom remarked.

"Yeah, and I'll bet it's so cool… having everypony in town love you." Scootaloo agreed.

"Totally… except… well did you notice something different about him?" Apple Bloom wondered.

"Different how?" Sweetie Belle asked, not getting it.

"I don't know… but the way he smiled… it seemed… sad." Apple Bloom tried to recall.

"Sad? What's there to be sad about? Equestria's at peace, he's got us, what more could he want?" Scootaloo proclaimed. The other two just shrugged, completely in the dark about what was bothering him.

---

Elsewhere, Luna was sitting on top of a large hill with a calm look on her face as she stared out into the horizon. Above her Toby then appeared and swooped down to the ground where he landed close behind her.

"Sup, teach?" he asked, casually.

"Your late." Princess Luna told him, sternly.

"Bad habit I picked up from my Grandfather." Toby said. "But just a warning; this kind of thing comes with the territory when your unlucky enough to paired with the likes of me."

"Yes… I am getting that impression very clearly." The Princess of the Night admitted. "Now… shall we begin?"

Toby nodded. "We shall," he said.

"Excellent." This mentor nodded as well.

"So what's the task for today?" Toby inquired.

"Your 'task' is to take this apple…" Luna began as she levitated an apple up and placed it on a nearby stump. "And turn it into an orange."

"An orange?" Toby echoed.

"An orange." Luna confirmed.

"Ah… alright then." Toby said, as she crackled his fingers as his hands began to glow with a bluish aura before striking the apple with electrical energy which made it shake a little.

"Gently...do not try and force the magic... just let it flow naturally throughout your body..." Princess Luna advised him.

Toby's magical lighting then turned into a small beam of channeled magical energy from his hand and directed it towards the large apple sitting on the table. The apple became enveloped in the blue glow and levitated off the table Toby's expression brightened and he redoubled his efforts, channeling the more power to the spell.

"Excellent, now try to change its shape." Princess Luna instructed him.

"Sure thing." The human nodded.

The apple floating above Toby's head then began to spin around and around while staying perfectly still in mid air. Slowly at first, then with increasing velocity. The red, juice able slowly change colors, shifting from blue, then green and soon it slowly moved further and further up the spectrum.

"Hmm, not the effect I was hoping for I'll admit…" Luna confessed. "But it should still have the desired result."

"Cool." Toby smiled, though it was noticeably sad looking.

"What is the matter Tobias? You seem… troubled." Luna observed.

"Huh?" Toby said, snapping out of his trance. "Oh it's nothing, just remembering that it's kind of an important day for me…"

"And that would be?" Princess Luna inquired.

"Well… the anniversary of my Mother's death." Toby responded. "Nine years on the dot."

The Princes of the Night's eyes widen with shock and sadness as she lowered her head sadly, she seemed to know something.

"Oh… right…" she said. The Princess then looked to her student. "How are you feeling?"

"It's been almost ten years since then, I'm used to it by now." Toby stated.

"And yet you still seem sad…" Luna pointed out.

"Well… I guess I am a little bummed because of it…" Toby admitted. He then turned to Luna with a smile. "But at least the girls have some parental figures in their lives, even Spike, I've almost forgotten what's it's like to actually have a mother… kind like you and Celestia.

Luna continued to have her head lowered looking somewhat guilty as they continued to talk about the subject and Toby continued to shift and change the apple in an orange.

"But like I said, I'm long over it." Toby assured her. "Though I still wish she was around…"

"SHE'S NOT DEAD!" Luna suddenly blurted out and then closes her mouth, covering it with her front hooves.

Due to being so startled by the Princess's outburst, the boy channeled too much power into the spell. The apple stopped spinning and changing colors, then after shaking a bit it exploded, covering the human's face in fruity pulp. Twilight blinked at Luna, looking unfazed by the gunk on his face then smiled at Luna.

"Ok… well, thanks Luna… for comforting me, I mean I guess in a sense my mother's still alive… in spirit anyway, I mean I did see her ghost at one point." Toby confessed. "Which means she might still be watching over me and…"

Luna shook her head. "No. I mean your mother… your true mother… is still alive," she stated.

"What!?" Toby questioned, shocked like he couldn't believe it. "True mother?"

"You heard me." Princess Luna said.

Toby blinked in confusion, and realized that Luna's telling the truth due to the look on her face. But then the age all question popped up.

"Well, then… where is she?" Toby finally asked. "What do you know?"

Luna paused before answering. "Toby… there is something you should have been told a long time ago…" she told him, somberly as she began to tell her everything as she did so Toby became more and more shocked as his jaw dropped and his eyes widen as he became so shocked that he stopped responding all together.

---

Meanwhile, in a dark, barren, desert like part of Equestria, lightning flashed as dark thunderhead clouds quickly the sky above. Every time a lightning bolt flashed a loud thunderous boom was heard afterwards.

Below the sky, a lone Griffin, also known as Gilda wandered through the wasteland looking totally lost. She looked left and right and saw absolutely nothing around her.

"Man… is there no end to this place?" Gilda grumbled. "Boy, I wish I could fly…"

Then a single newspaper suddenly blew through the wind and hit her leg, she picked it up and saw a picture of Toby on it. Her eyes widen as her blood boiled.

"Toby Morrison…" she growled as she crumpled up the paper and tossed it aside. "Ugh! Stupid Morrison! It's thanks to him my wings are shot after spending all that time in Tartarus! Sure I managed to get out but now I'm lost in this wasteland they call the Badlands! Man… what else could wrong!?"

"Gilda…"

Gilda froze up when she heard the mysterious voice from out of nowhere call out her name. It sounded female but very hushed so that Gilda wouldn't be able to recognize whoever she was.

"I've been looking for you."

The griffin yelped when she heard the mysterious voice once again, she looked around the area and saw nothing but fog and rocks.

"What the…? Who are you and how do you know my name!?" Gilda demanded as she looked around for the voice.

She then turned around and screamed with fear when they saw a unicorn wearing a black hooded cloak that covered most of her face and body standing right behind her.

"W-Who are you?" Gilda stuttered.

"Not important." The mare stated. "But let's just say I have need our your talents."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on their girl, what makes you think I'm gonna listen to a dweeb like you?" Gilda questioned.

"I don't think you three quite realize whom you're dealing with." The hooded mare told her before her eyes glowed yellow. Then much to Gilda surprise she found themselves floating into the air, she waved their claws around, panicking before she was suddenly tossed hard into a stone wall. She groaned in pain as the stranger stood over her threateningly.

"Any other questions?" she asked.

"Uh… w-when do I start?" Gilda asked, nervously.

"Good and as a reward…" The hooded mare began before her horn glowed. Gilda's broken wing then glowed with a magical aura before unfolding, fully healed.

"Hey… I'm back to normal!" Gilda exclaimed.

"You're welcome. And if you'd like I could tell you of a way to exact revenge on Toby." The stranger said.

Gilda's eyes widen. "What? Hold on, you really know a way?" she asked.

"Indeed." The mare nodded. "So what do you say? Are you in?"

The hooded stranger held out a hoof. Gilda thought for a little bit then started to smile evilly and shook her hoof.

"Well, it's nice meet you stranger," The griffin said. "When do we start?"

A evil smile appeared on the hidden face of the stranger as well as her eyes continued to glow yellow.

---

Elsewhere, the girls and Spike were all being treated by Aloe and her sister Lotus in the spy and seemed to be enjoying themselves greatly. Although Rainbow Dash was just sitting around reading the newspaper instead.

"Ah… isn't this relaxing everypony?" Rarity asked the others as Aloe gave her a hooficure.

"Yes… the first break we've had in weeks…" Fluttershy added. "And I say we have all earned it."

"You said it…" Applejack said, as Lotus massaged her.

Spike sighed. "Man… Toby is missing out…" he said. He then looked up towards Rainbow. "Hey Dash, sure you don't want to join us?"

"Yeah. Pretty sure." Rainbow Dash said, dismissively.

"Oh but Rainbow, didn't I tell you how amazing these hooficure's are? Why don't you give them a try for once?" Rarity asked.

"You know why." Rainbow Dash stated.

"Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know! It's because she doesn't like other ponies touching her hooves!" Pinkie exclaimed, excitedly, happy to have got it right.

"That… and if Toby saw me getting one of those… ugh! Can you imagine what he'd do with that?" Rainbow asked, frowning in displeasure.

Twilight's eyes widen a bit before she smiled a small smile. "Interesting…" she mused.

"What?" Rainbow asked, not getting what she meant.

"So… it's not everypony's else reactions your worried about… the one you're really worried about… is Toby." Twilight said. Rainbow's eyes as she stared at her smiling friends and turned away to hide her blushing face.

"Rainbow… do you actually have a…" Applejack began to say.

They are all interrupted and quickly started when the doors to the spy are suddenly kicked open by someone with a size black shoe. They turned to see that it was Toby and he was not pleased, not one little bit.

"Toby! What's the matter?" Twilight Sparkle asked, surprised by his sudden appearance.

"Pack your things, we're headed for Canterlot." Toby told them.

"Uh… we're a little busy at the moment, sugercube…" Applejack said.

"Now!" Toby ordered, sternly.

"Ok! Ok! No need to yell!" Rainbow Dash said as she took the blanket off her head. The others quickly began to stop what they were doing and get up.

"Jeez Toby, what's gotten into you?" Spike asked him.

"You'll find out soon enough Spike and trust me… once you hear it your life will never be the same. I'll meet you guys at the station in a half." Toby said as he began to walk off.

"But…" Fluttershy began.

"In a half." Toby repeated, firmly as he left.

"Oh boy…" Spike muttered.

"What?" Twilight Sparkle asked her assistant.

"Toby's got that look in his eye…" Spike said.

"A look?" Applejack inquired.

"Yeah, I've seen it before… once he has it… things change." Spike stated, with a bit of serious tone.

---

Meanwhile, in Canterlot, Celestia was currently busy talking to several guards when Princess Luna suddenly entered. The guards bowed to her in respect.

"Luna! To what do I owe the pleasure, dear sister?" Princess Celestia asked, warmly.

Luna turned to the guards. "Leave us," she instructed them. The guards and quickly exit the throne room. Celestia seemed to be surprised by her sister's dismissive attitude.

"Luna? What is the matter? Is everything alright?" The Princess of the Day asked her younger sister, a bit worried. The Princess of the Night turned to her older sister with a bit of a sad look.

"Sister… there is something I must tell you…" Luna began to say.

Then in a nano second Toby burst through the doors to Celestia's throne room loudly and abruptly with a determined and very angry look on his face. His friends followed him close behind. Celestia and Luna turned to him with surprised and worried looks on their faces.

The Princess seemed to notice that he was silently furious, as he walked over to her. Though despite his attitude, she remained calm and composed, as she greeted him, "Tobias, greetings. I take it the lessons my sister sent you are going well?"

"Princess C, we need to talk." Toby pointed out rather bluntly and calmly. "Now."

Princess Celestia read his angry face for a while before she finally managed to figure out what he wanted to talk about and once she did she gasped sharply as her eyes widened and then narrowed.

"You know… don't you?" Celestia finally asked.

"Know what?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"Yeah, I know… Luna told me everything." Toby confirmed.

Princess Celestia turned to her younger sister, who seemed to look more calm then she did at the moment. "Luna… is that true?" she questioned.

"I did. You left me no choice," she defended. "He needed to know."

"Luna, I told you what could happen if he knew!" Celestia told her.

"I couldn't just keep this from him! He's my student, sister." Princess Luna stated. "And I couldn't just continue your tale of deceit! Besides sooner or later he would have found it out all on his own, regardless of whether or not I told him.

"Well actually… I guess I've always known, ever since I heard what you said to me when we fought the Boogeyman. But Luna's revelation clinched it."

"So… you looked through of the genealogical scrolls… did some DNA testing…" Celestia mused.

"Once I worked up the nerve. I was twelve years old when I first came to Equestria, Princess." Toby said. "A punk kid with a smart mouth and potential I didn't even suspect. I may have pretended otherwise but I looked up to you, worshiped you! Just like everypony else!"

"We all have our secrets Toby and while they may have a cost… the truth does as well." Princess Celestia told him.

"Tell me something I don't know!" Toby snapped as he stomped over to a farther corner of the room.

"Now calm down Toby, your scaring Fluttershy here." Applejack said to him as the aforementioned Pegasus shook in fear behind her. Toby just stopped at the dark corner of the room and stayed quiet for a while. "Toe? You ok? Uh… Toe?"

Toby continued to stay silent until finally…

"My Mom wasn't a Princess or a superhero… she never sealed away Nightmare Moon in the moon for a thousand years. She never ruled a whole country but she was a good person just the same. Even when I was having a bad time she always helped me pick myself back up." Toby began. "I was always provided for… when Dad couldn't quite make the bills she always pulled through. She taught me right from wrong, would have taught me more if I ever listened. And she never laid on a hand on me, although lord knows I was asking for it…"

"Tobias... please… what is your point exactly?" Celestia asked, even though it sounded like she already knew the answer.

Toby turned to her angrily. "What's my 'point'?" he asked, incredulously. "My point is that I never once doubted that she loved me with all her heart! My point is that all those 'warm feelings' I had for my Mom… turns out they were just another lie! Another in the long list of things you've stolen from me! My point is that I just figured out that Sasha Morrison isn't my mother!"

Toby then zoomed over and looked Celestia directly in the eye. "You are," he spat out. The girls all gasped sharply at this revelation, Spike fainted dead away and Luna lowered her head sadly.

"WHAT!?" Pinkie exclaimed, dramatically. The others all glared at her a bit and she smiled sheepishly.

The silence was maddening, teasing, presumptuous. But yet it dragged on, all six of the ponies who bore the elements of Harmony fearing the consequences of breaking it. Princess Luna also looked extremely tense and solemn once Toby pretty much let the cat out of the bag. Then Celestia finally did break the silence.

"…What do you want from me?" she asked, after a sad pause.

"I want to know the whole truth!" Toby stated.

"It appears you already do." Princess Celestia said.

"I guess I didn't want to believe to think that you were so incredibly arrogant that you thought this world couldn't go on without you!" Toby stated.

"Or somepony like me." Celestia corrected. "It is not arrogance… it is fact… and I am truly sorry… about everything…"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up! Your saying… Toby… is your son!?" Rainbow Dash questioned in disbelief and shocked.

The Princess of the Sun nodded. "Yes. He is. Everything he said is true. All of it," she confirmed.

"But… how can that be?" Twilight questioned, shocked and confused beyond words.

"Well… over twenty years ago… I once went to the human world in my own human form, for research purposes only, little did I know that I would fall in love with the man who would be your father." Celestia explained. "When I first saw him he was… dazzling, everything a mare could want in a stallion."

Rainbow started making gagging noises, trying to sound not interested until Rarity nudged her to be quiet.

"Let her speak!" Applejack whispered.

"Then… some time during the year later… I gave birth to you, Toby." Celestia said.

"So I'm…" Toby began.

"Half-Human, Half-Alicorn, a being of immense power and the first of your kind." Princess Celestia finished.

"No wonder he's so good with magic…" Twilight Sparkle realized.

"So… if that's true… then why did you leave? And why did my Dad think Sasha was my mother!?" Toby inquired.

"I wanted to spend more time with you, I did, but I had no choice but to leave and go home to Equestria, my little ponies needed me." Princess Celestia explained. "And so… to spare your father the pain of losing me… I used my magic to erase his memories of me and alter them so that he would think that he had you with the woman you would believe to be your mother."

"So all of it was a lie!?" Toby shouted.

"You needed a mother in your life… I never knew what sort of tragedy would befall her… and leave you so heartbroken… and alone." Celestia confessed, sadly.

"To my sister's extreme credit, her intentions were noble in returning to her world and wiping memories, plus not even she could have predicted something ill-fated befalling Sasha Morrison." Luna reasoned.

"That's not the point!" Toby stated, stubbornly.

"So… you knew he was your son all along?" Fluttershy asked.

The Princess nodded. "Yes. From the moment I saw him I knew."

Spike then rose up, after finally regaining consciousness. "But… why didn't you tell him who you were?" he asked.

"Yes… why?" Toby questioned, further.

"I knew you loved your foster mother… and I did not wish to take that away from you. Sasha Morrison raised you from birth, not me. I wish to respect that." Princess Celestia explained. "So I let you stay… and I kept the truth from you."

"You still lied to me." Toby stated.

"I simply didn't want you to feel different." Princess Celestia told him. "I wanted to be your own person, not just the son of a royal figure such as myself."

"You know… it kind of explains a few things." Rainbow admitted. "His leadership…"

"His magic…" Twilight continued.

"And those wings…" Fluttershy added.

"Wait! If he's Celestia's son…" Rarity began to realize.

"That makes Toby…" Applejack started to say before everypony else blurted it out.

"A PRINCE!?" They yelled in shock.

Celestia nodded again. "Yes. He is. In Equestria, he would have been known as Prince Crimson Dawn, heir to the throne of Equestria, he still is, after all he does have royal blood." she said. "It also makes Luna his aunt, who as you can most likely guess, he has taken many traits from."

Luna and Toby then gave each other a odd but short look.

"So Toby's really Prince Toby then…" Pinkie began before she then started bowing. "Your majesty!"

"Knock it off." Toby said, annoyed. "I'm not a prince. I'm a soldier, I always will be."

"I know and I do not wish you to be something you do not wish to be." Princess Celestia tried to assure him. "However I do expect you to accept your title and hear what I have to say."

"Do you - do you think I want to - do you think I give a - I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO SAY! I don't want to hear anything you've got to say!" Toby shouted.

"Please, listen, I know you hate me and I do not blame you… but please don't blame Sasha… it was my doing, all of it." Princess Celestia pleaded.

"I know." The half-human said. "The way I see it Sasha didn't do anything wrong… she didn't know anything about this. Plus she raised me. I can't blame her for this…. BUT I CAN TOTALLY BLAME YOU!"

Celestia's eyes widen as Toby grabbed her by the collar, surprising everypony. "Tobias I…"

"I thought we were friends Celestia! How could keep this from me!? How could you lie? How could just leave me alone after Sasha was killed all those years ago when I needed you the most!?" Toby demanded with a loud voice. He then released her. "And how did I not see how useless you are?"

Celestia's eyes narrowed. "Please, Tobias… you must understand, this was difficult for me as it was for you!" she stated.

"So you couldn't find a way stay? Or least find a way to make sure I was looked after?" Toby questioned.

"Toby you know how difficult it is to…" Celestia started to say.

"Just shut it!" Toby snapped. "You can't just reveal all that and start trying to act like a mother! Not when all you've been doing is explaining yourself and not after I had to spend five years without one! Five years! After my fake Mom died Dad threw himself into his work and barely had any time for me!"

"Yes… and I know how painful it was for you, trust me, I have been there." Princess Celestia reminded. "I had to spend a long time alone after I banished my younger all those years ago, remember?"

"Yeah, maybe, but you all had your subjects and Twilight with you!" Toby pointed out. "I had nopony! I was always alone!"

"Tobias, your judgement is clouded, you know better than anyone how difficult it is to cross worlds!" Luna stated.

"Still!" The boy said, frustrated.

"Tobias, calm down!" Celestia told him firmly.

"You're not my Mom! You don't tell me what to do!" Toby said, stubbornly.

"Your right, I do not deserve the title of 'Mom'… but I am the one who bore you." Princess Celestia reminded.

"So?" Toby questioned.

"So… so you're going to listen." Celestia said to him with a now stern tone.

Toby folded his arms at her. "You got nothing to say to me!"

"Actually… I do." Celestia stated.

"Well, just point it out here… it could have been worse for you." Spike suggested to Toby, whom was obviously still ticked off.

He glared at the dragon, as he shouted, "HOW!?"

Spike gulped, as he squeaked out, "Well, you could've been born a centaur... or a satyr."

Toby was about to shout him off, but then thought about it. He thought about it pretty hard. He then gulped at the realization, and shuddered creeped out, "Yeah... you're probably right. It'd be also worse if all the parts didn't assemble right… but that's beside the point!"

"Oh? Then what's near the point?" Pinkie randomly asked before Toby gave her a glare. "Never mind…"

"Toby, need I remind you just what it meant to have the weight of both the loss of my sister, and the burden of an entire kingdom of millions on both my shoulders, it was almost as hard as being alone without my sister for all those years." Princess Celestia said.

"Which was because you banished her! If you really had loved her, you would have never done so!" Toby told her, bitterly.

"You watch your mouth." Celestia warned him, she was beginning to lose her cool and it was apparent. "I loved my sister Luna more then I loved my subjects, you, more than anypony else… that's why I did what I to do… I did it because I loved her… which was the same I had to erase your father's memories of me. To spare him pain."

Toby then gave her 'the hand' "Save it. I'm done with you," he stated. "We're done. See ya."

Toby zoomed toward a window and smashed right through it as he jumped right through.

"TOBIAS!" Celestia shouted.

Everypony galloped to the window, looked out and watched as he fell down the castle walls for a bit before spreading his wings and flying off into the distance. They continued to watch until he vanished from sight.

Twilight watched for a minute before her eyes flashed yellow and she suddenly turned to Celestia angrily.

"Why didn't you stop him!?" she questioned her.

"What?" The Princess Celestia asked, surprised.

"Why did you let him go? Your suppose to be in charge!" Twilight reminded her.

"Twilight, please, understand that this is a difficult situation and…" Celestia began.

"Yeah, a situation you never bothered to tell me about! Your own student!" Twilight Sparkle proclaimed.

"I…" Her mentor tried to say before Twilight turned and walked away.

"Twilight, wait!" Spike called out, trying to stop her, but she ported out before he could. Everypony else was stunned by their friend's sudden change in attitude.

"Well… that was a surprise…" Pinkie remarked.

"Yeah… where'd that come from?" Applejack wondered.

"Hey, wait a minute… if Toby's half pony… then come he looks totally human?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"Remember; he was born in the human world and I was in human form when I bore him, so he was born looking fully human." Princess Celestia explained.

"We believe I can assume his alicorn form if he wanted to, he just does not know how yet." Luna added.

"Cool!" Pinkie Pie said, in awe.

"Yes, cool, however there is still the problem of finding our two runaway friends." Rarity reminded them.

"Right! Let's go find 'em gals!" Applejack declared.

"Way ahead of ya, AJ!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she zoomed off ahead with everypony else following her close behind. Spike was the last to leave and turned to the Princess'.

"Uh… listen, we're gonna go find and talk to our friends now and you and Toby clearly need to talk so… yeah, bye!" Spike said, before zipping off.

After the little dragon left Luna turned to her older sister, who was now sitting and sulking in a shadowy corner of the room. She slowly proceeded towards the now despondent Celestia with a sympathetic look on her face.

"It is curse… isn't it? Having me as a friend… a mentor… a sister… a mother…" Princess Celestia muttered with a hopeless tone. "Toby, Twilight… you… I failed all of you."

"No sister, you didn't. I may not have shown it much… especially just before the time I became Nightmare Moon… but I don't feel that way towards you." Luna confessed to her sister as she sat down next to her. "And neither does Twilight. And trust me, I know Tobias doesn't feel that way either. Not really. You're a great mentor Celestia, a great friend, a great sister and I just know you'd be a great mother as well… so go to him. He needs you. Whether he knows it or not."

Celestia paused before sighing and finally speaking. "You may be right… but what are the chances

"We're the only family he has in this world, and we should never give up on family." Luna stated. "After all… you never gave up on me."

Princess Celestia looked toward her sister and gave her a small but thankful smile, happy to have her sister by her side, which she returned.

"Anyways, as for Toby just leave him to me." Princess Luna said before stepping back. "I will try to reason with him, after all… he is my nephew."

Princess Luna's horn glowed before she suddenly ported out of the room. Now alone, Celestia let a single tear flow down her cheek.

"George… I miss you…" she softly sobbed. "I missed every day since I left you… I wish I could change that… I cannot… all I ask… is that you give the strength… to help your child… our child… though these dark times… please… help me."

The Princess of the Day lowered her head as the shadows created by the clouds blocking her sun surrounded her.

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Meanwhile, Toby was sitting under a shady tree, brooding. Images of his fight with Celestia as well as images of his father and the woman he thought was his mother flashed in his mind making him grow as his grip on his shirt tightened. He began to get up with a fiery look in his eye but was suddenly pushed back down by a magical aura and pinned to the tree. He looked up and was mad to see the Princess of the Moon landing in front of him.

"What is this!?" Toby growled.

"My apologises, but I knew you wouldn't want to sit still for a lecture so I figured I had to pin you down." Luna stated.

"You do realize that every time you go into 'lecture mode'…" Toby began.

"It makes you want to rip your own ears off, I know." Luna said.

Toby turned away annoyed. "So you know everything I do, is that what your trying to tell me? Great. I'm glad we had this talk," he said, quickly.

"Settle down, Toby." Princess Luna told him.

"Fine… what are you here to say?" Toby asked.

"I'm here to tell you to let it go, Toby." His mentor said to him.

"Let it go?" Toby echoed, shocked.

"Yes, you have to forget about all this anger you have towards my sister." Luna advised him. "If you do not… it will consume you."

"Shut it! What makes you think you know anything about it!?" Tobu snapped. "It's easy for you to talk, you have no idea!"

"Easy… just try to calm down." Luna tried to sooth him.

"Maybe if you went through something like this maybe I'd listen to what you'd have to say, but you didn't, you didn't know your parents! You weren't lied to and betrayed by them!"

"When are you finally going to grow up!?" Luna exclaimed angrily, all of a sudden. "My sister didn't keep you in the dark out of malice you moron! She did it out of love."

"Oh please…" Toby scoffed.

"Do you have any idea how hard it was for her to keep it from you?" Luna questioned. "Do you even have the slightest clue how much she wanted to be there for you? How much she wished she could have been there for you during your times of need… but had to force herself not to because she promised to keep your faith in her… and especially in Sasha Morrison alive!? Well I agree that you needed to know the truth sooner, you shouldn't hate my sister like this. Not after all she's done. She loves you. She loves you so much that having the keep it from you was killing her inside, but she had no choice…"

Toby's eyes widen after hearing this and he lowered his head looking a bit sad. Luna then released him.

"Alright, lecture over. Tell me; has the message gotten through?"

Toby continued to look at the ground thoughtfully as he struggled to fight his inner demons.

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Around the same time, Rainbow and the others were still looking around for Toby and Twilight but not having as good a luck as the Princess'. Rainbow searched from the sky.

"Toby! Come on, where are ya?" she called out. She then spotted something up ahead that caught her attention. Her eyes widen when she saw that it was Gilda, entering town with a hooded mare waiting for her. "Hey guys!"

Applejack looked up. "Did you find them?"

"No, but I think I see Gilda!" she said.

"Gilda?" Everypony exclaimed.

"Yeah, come on, let's go see what she's up to!" Rainbow Dash said as she zoomed towards her, with everypony else following. Gilda soon reached her new employer.

"Did you get the crystal?" The hooded mare asked.

Gilda then held up a pointy white crystal in her claws. "Yeah, I got it."

"Then we can begin." The stranger said. "And Toby Morrison will finally know true despair."

Gilda turned and then saw Rainbow Dash and the rest of the gang making their way towards them fast.

"Company boss." Gilda informed her hooded friend.

"Too little… too late." The hooded mare stated. "Get to work.

"Right." Gilda nodded as she then began to quickly draw some kind of symbol into the ground. She rose up after she finished. "Now what?"

"Now… this!" The hooded one declared as her horn glowed. "RISE!"

The ground then began to shake beneath their hooves, feet and claws, catching everypony off guard. Gilda seemed pleased by all this.

"Hey, Gilda!"

The Griffin turned and was caught off guard when Rainbow appeared and knocked her out cold with a jab from her forehoof.

"That felt good…" Rainbow Dash remarked, then the ground began to shake even more, causing everypony to scream and hold onto something. In a flash, Toby then appeared along with Luna who just floated back down to Earth.

"Hey, we heard all the screaming, what's…" Toby began as he and Luna looked before them and saw a crack in the earth began to appear and spread all around the town, separating several ponies from their family and causing some to nearly fall into the large crevice that was growing in the ground as the plates continued to spread apart. Then suddenly, various pieces of material began to come together, at first it was a giant ball but then it began to grow long limbs and as well as take on a more humanoid shape. It was now a gigantic golem.

The golem standing before them appeared to be an elemental creature composed of metal, wood, crystal, and rock, etc. It also had glowing ruins throughout its body. It towered over all of them and everypony's jaws dropped at the sight of it.

"I did not see that coming…" Toby muttered.

"What is that?" Applejack asked, shocked.

"An elemental golem." Luna replied.

"Dude, I'm bilingual and I still don't understand what you just said!" Toby complained.

"Irrelevant, just attack!" Luna ordered.

Toby unfolded his wings and smiled. "Ok, that I do get!" he said as he flew off.

"No, wait!" Fluttershy cried.

The creature noticed Toby and tried to smack him aside but Toby smartly flew up and around the golem's arms and slammed his fist into it. Denting it. But soon after he hit it, the golem's body quickly healed itself, much to his shock.

"What…" Toby began before the Golem grabbed him and threw him away but he managed to regain his composure. "I'm not through with you!"

Toby then created an energy chain that connected to the creature. He gave it a good pull and dragged the creature straight towards him, right before it could hurt any pony's. Once it got close enough the slammed his fist into it again, then began to rapidly punch it over and over again. But all this attacks soon repaired themselves, much to his dismay.

"Aw… come on!" Toby exclaimed before the Golem grabbed him and began to smack him around

"Toby!" Rainbow, Fluttershy and the others all yelled.

"Oh man… we got to help him!" Spike proclaimed.

"No, not just yet…" Luna said, slowly. She seemed to be concentrating a bit.

The Golem finally stopped smacking into every building nearby and tossed him onto the ground like a rag doll, looking unconscious. He soon opened his eyes to see the Golem standing above him and preparing to squash him with its giant stone foot.

"This is gonna hurt…" Toby muttered as the Golem brought it's down on him but Toby managed to hold it up above his head with a great deal of effort. As he continued to struggle to hold it up, the weight of the rocky creature began to create a crater around him, which expanded every time it pressed it's weight down onto him.

After a long period of watching and waiting Luna then charged up her magic and then fired a beam at the creature that made it disappear then reappear in the far off distance, away from Ponyville. The seemed to roar, angrily.

"Ugh… what just happened?" Toby questioned, sounding sore as he rubbed his aching body as he got up.

"I teleported the golem out of the town and into a more safe location." Luna responded. "Thank you for distracting it while I charged up my magic."

Toby just glared at her, looking very annoyed. "I seriously hate you."

"Oh, I know." Luna said.

Rainbow's eyes then widen with realization. "Wait a minute! Why didn't you do that in the first place, why did you wait?!" she exclaimed to the Princess.

"To put it simply; I just wanted to see the look on Tobias' face." Princess Luna grinned. Toby just gave her a death glare.

"Well… now what?" Applejack questioned. "If we don't stop this thing now it's gonna tear right though Ponyville!"

"And absolutely nothing can damage it!" Rarity added.

"I think I know how to ground it, remember the trick we used to take the then giant evil me back when I was thirteen?" Toby asked them.

"You bet we do!" Rainbow nodded.

"Then get to it!" Toby ordered.

"Right!" The girls cried as they all got to work and ran over to the Golem who still looked ready to fight.

Applejack and Pinkie Pie then ran around it and kicked the back of the Golem's wooden legs with their own hind legs. Then Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flew over and started to push the golem. Finally Rarity appeared and magically levitated a giant ribbon in front of it. This caused the Golem to fall right over into the ground. Toby and Spike then ran over and grabbed it's arms.

"Ok… now if we can just keep it pinned for a while we can…" Toby began before the Golem suddenly rose up and smacked them all away with ease. They all land on the ground one by one and slowly try to get up, looking sore. Princess Celestia suddenly appeared and dropped down nearby.

"Everypony! Get behind our shield!" Celestia cried. Most of the others raced over and got behind the two Princess' as they both put up a strong barrier around themselves. The Golem then walked over and quickly began pounding on it, while Toby laid on the ground looking sore.

"Oh… I don't suppose we could just ask it to play nice…" Toby groaned. "Wait… maybe that's actually possible!"

The human then got up and raced over to the Golem who was pounding on the force field created by the Princess', which eventually broke into pieces by the time Toby arrived.

"Enough!" Toby cried as he pressed his hand onto the golem's leg. His palm glowed with a bluish glow as he and the creature began to glow brightly. Toby groaned as the runes on the Golem began to glow as well. Rainbow raced over to him.

"Toby! Stop! Whatever you're doing, break off before it kills you!" Rainbow Dash pleaded as she tried to pull Toby away but he did not budge.

"No! It's not attacking. It's communicating. Communicating its pain. Listen." Toby told her and everypony else before he began to speak in a mind controlled voice. "Where is the stillness of wood? Of stone? Of crystal? Of metal?"

"Is that…" Spike began.

"The voice of the golem. Yes." Celestia confirmed.

"All this noise. All this life. Is pain. We sense a great power here. Power strong enough to destroy us. To end the pain. To be still. Again." Toby said for the golem.

"He must mean the Elements Twilight has been keeping." Luna deduced. "He wants us to use those to destroy him and make him lifeless again."

Fluttershy was just seconds away from breaking into tears. "Oh… the poor thing!" she said, sadly.

"Uh… look… mister golem sir… we can help you." Applejack told it. "We will help you."

Meanwhile, nearby, a shadowy figure appeared, although none of them saw the figure or even knew he or she was even there. The figure looked at the golem.

"Sorry fools… but I can't have that," The figure said as he or she revealed his or her horn and fired a magenta colored blast of magical energy at the golem. The beam hit the giant monstrosity hard, it seemed to let out a loud cry as it reeled back. Then it's thoughts and feeling were quickly transferred to Toby who suddenly began screaming in pain at the top of his lungs as the beast slowly cracked up all over, much to the shock of everypony else who also looked toward Toby, alarmed as he continued to scream for the Golem. Eventually the Golem exploded into pieces, everypony shielded themselves from the blast before the creature's ashes slowly began to rain down. They were all stunned

"It's… dead." Spike finally spat out.

"No way…" Rainbow Dash breathed.

"How terribly tragic…" Luna said, sadly.

"Yes… indeed…" Celestia agreed, then she quickly remembered something. "Tobias!"

Everypony then turned their attentions to Toby had finally stopped screaming was now curled up in a fetal position on the pavement and shivering in wide-eyed fear. Applejack, Rainbow and Fluttershy then rush over to comfort him.

"Toby! Are you ok?" Pinkie Pie asked, worried.

"Speak to us!" Rainbow pleaded.

"It's ok sugercube, your gonna be alright." Applejack assured him.

"Please be ok…" Fluttershy added, hopefully.

"It was... no... so dark... make it stop... make it stop..." Toby practically begged, still shaking with fear.

"Man… he's completely traumatized!" Spike remarked.

"His mind was connected to the creature… he must have felt it die inside his own mind…" Princess Luna concluded. "A most tragic fate…"

"No…" Celestia muttered, sorrowfully, she obviously feels guilty for not being able to help him.

"It was alive… It was alive. And now it's gone…" Toby finally said in a complete sentence, but with a sad tone as he held out his hand and grabbed one of the golems ashes raining from the sky tenderly. "Who was it? Who attacked? Who killed it?"

Princess Luna looked toward the distance. "Somepony… ugly."

The hooded pony continued to watch for a while before soon vanishing into the shadows.

"Hey, guys."

Everypony jumped when they saw Twilight suddenly appear near them with a calm look on her face. "What's going on?" she asked.

"Twilight! Hey, where were you?" Spike asked her.

"I was about to go look for you when I saw the Golem attacking Ponyville. I also thought I saw the hood of the mare that summon killed that Golem." Twilight sad. "I tried to get her but… she got away…"

"Did you see her face?" Luna questioned.

"No… it was dark I…" Twilight Sparkle began to say before Celestia put a hoof on her shoulder and comforted her.

"It's alright Twilight, you did you best," she told her. "And… am I sorry for keeping my dark secret hidden from you… you were right… I should have trusted you enough to tell you."

"Don't worry Princess, I understand how hard it must have been for you and I'm sorry for snapping at you like that earlier too… I don't know what came over me…"

"Hopefully Toby will be more understanding too… as soon as he snaps out of it that is." Applejack said.

"Yes, hopefully… however… having that creature die inside his mind has left his psyche very fragile." Princess Celestia stated. "But his biggest challenge is accepting who Sasha Morrison really was… and who I really am to him."

"Indeed, for him this feels like a betrayal of trust and something about… betrayal always sticks with you, always." Princess Luna added.

"Your right Princess… but like Applejack said; hopefully he'll move on." Twilight Sparkle said.

"And, he'll let his real friends be there for him." Rainbow Dash added. The others all nodded in agreement, as they looked toward their friend sympathetically. Spike patted him on the shoulder while Rainbow held the now unconscious Toby in her fore hooves and cradled him tightly while Princess Celestia walked over and nuzzled him.

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Morning arrived as Celestia walked into the hospital's lobby. A soft and warm smile crept across Celestia's face as she looked upon her sleeping ponies, who had stayed the night as the nurse came trotting in. Celestia gave Nurse Redheart a warm smile, and looked at the others sleeping peacefully.

"Wake up my little ponies." she spoke with her usual soft tone.

The group slowly blinked their eyes open, and immediately shot awake when they saw Nurse Redheart. Fluttershy trotted up to her with a look of deep concern. "How is Toby, Nurse Redheart? Is he okay?" She bit her lower lip nervously.

Nurse Redheart gently placed a hoof on the deeply concerned Pegasus' shoulder, and gave her a warm smile with a nod "Yes, he's doing fine. He was very weak when you brought him in, and dehydrated. But we gave him some fluids, and he's sleeping right now. If you would like to go back and see him if you want though." She gave and the others a warm smile.

"Thank you, Nurse Redheart, we will." Twilight nodded.

"Very well, please, follow me, I will show you to his room." She turn to trot ahead as the others followed.

"Boy, Toby's gonna be really happy when he sees us!" Pinkie Pie said, bouncing up and down.

"I just hope that he's still not mad and shaken by what happened." Rainbow mused.

"Ah, the kid's tough, I'm sure he's fine."

"Well, I suppose there is only one way to find out." Rarity concluded.

They began to enter the room but instead of seeing Toby laying on his back sleeping they saw an empty hospital bed and an open window, the warm morning breeze blowing peacefully.

"He's gone!" Princess Celestia exclaimed, shocked. The others also looked just as shocked as she did at the moment.

"Bu that… that's impossible… how…?" Nurse Redheart began.

Spike surveyed the hospital room and noticed something else. "It looks like he gathered all of his things too…" he added.

"But where did he go?" Fluttershy wondered, fearfully.

Everypony looked completely unsure, they also looked worried and concerned about the whereabouts of their young human friend who seemed to have disappeared without a trace, and without even leaving a note. Outside, storm clouds slowly rolled in and begin flashing thunder. The face of a chaotic creature appeared in the clouds and laughed before disappearing.

To be continued…

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Author's Note: This episode uses elements from the Justice League Unlimited episode 'Epilogue' and the Young Justice episodes 'Salvage' and 'Satisfaction'. Also, following this episode the series will take a more serious tone.