It was great to have wings. The few hours Brightwing didn't have wings were terrible. The new bladed wings cut through steel like a hot knife through butter. He flew fast and straight. One time, he even bumped into Fluttershy once. Or, he thought maybe she tried to bump into me.

"Omigosh! I'm so sorry!" she had said, "I wasn't looking."

"It's okay," he had replied "I wasn't either." she had also blushed. She blushed whenever he was around and she talked to him very shyly, more shy than she talked anypony else. He  had a suspicion that she had a crush on him, but nah that couldn't be the case. Little did he know how wrong he was.

One day he was clearing hail clouds when a voice said

"Brightwing!" He looked down and saw Twilight. "Yeah?"

"Can you come down once you're done? If it's not too much trouble?"

"Sure," he called down, "Hold on a sec." He sliced the last cloud with his black iridescent starsteel wing and flew down. Twilight looked side to side as if making sure nopony was watching or hearing. She cast a spell and nodded in satisfaction when it was finished.

"Look, Brightwing, I shouldn't be telling you this, but Fluttershy, she um, she uh, kinda has....well.." She took a deep breath and then blurted "Fluttershy has a crush on you." Bright wasn't sure he had heard right.

"Wait what?"

"She likes you. A lot. And by a lot I mean-"

"Okay! I get it!" he interjected "But why?"

"She just does. I don't know why. I think that's why she ran into you yesterday. Either a) She is waiting for you to make a move or b) she's trying to get your attention. I really have no idea. I don't know anything about love but, maybe you should go talk to her?"

"Um, okay," he said uncertainly "That's her house over there right?" he then pointed his hoof in the direction of a cottage,

"Just the one," Twilight replied "Don't tell her how you found out." she was about to leave when Bright stopped her.

"Wait, how do you know this?"

"Oh well...." Twilight looked very nervous "She told me, hoping I'd understand. I sort of did, I mean well I do have a crush but..."  

"Okay. I'll go talk to her."

"Good luck." Twilight called as Brightwing flew to the cottage.

Saber landed in front of a cottage with animals of all kinds in the yard. He knocked on the door. A rabbit stuck it's head out with a professional look of a Canterlot Guard.

"Uh, I'm here to see Fluttershy." It's look stayed the same he was about to say it again, not sure the rabbit understood him when Fluttershy's voice floated out

"Angel, who is it?"

"It's me Brightwing. Uh, I would like to talk to you." he called then added "If I'm not interrupting anything." he heard hoofsteps and the rearranging of items.

"Am I interrupting something?" he asked,

"Oh of course not! I just need to uh, pick up."

"We can talk out here if you want to." The commotion stopped and Fluttershy opened the door. Bright looked down at Angel "This is a private conversation, if you don't mind." the rabbit looked suspiciously at the bladed starsteel wings folded at Bright's sides. "I-it's okay Angel I trust him." The rabbit sighed and hopped back into the house.

"So you wanted to talk?" she said nervously. Brightwing took a deep breath

"I know how you feel about me. I don't know how I feel about you. You're kind, caring, pretty, and a good pony. You deserve to be the Element of Kindness." it just slipped out. Just like that. Fluttershy looked down, cheeks bright red, tears coming from her eyes and she seemed ashamed of herself.

"O-o-oh y-your j-j-just saying that."

"Hey, it's okay, I'm not saying this just to compliment you. It's true for me. It's true to everypony." he turned the feathers on his wings so the blades would not cut and so they looked like normal Pegasus wings and he put a one around her and hugged her, wiping the tears from her eyes. Then something unexpected (although Brightwing should have expected it coming in this situation) happened. She kissed him. Full. Right there. On the lips. He thought even his pure black cheeks turned red.

"Ahem." said a voice with a British accent. As if on impulse, the wing not holding Fluttershy flipped around to blade mode and pointed at Rarity and quivered within an inch of her face. "Um, very well then. I see that you are busy right now. Come over to Carsol Boutique when you are not busy. Goodbye then!" and Rarity trotted off nervously, scared of the bladed feathers. She stumbled across Twilight. "Twilight, dear, I just 'walked in' if you will, on Fluttershy and Brightwing. They were uh, um, well, to put it simply they were kissing. I tried to interrupt to tell Fluttershy her dress for the Gala was ready, I nearly got a bladed feather to the face."

"Oh dear," Twilight said, "He must've said something."

"Whatever do you mean Twilight?" Rarity. asked

"Well Rarity, when I called Fluttershy to help me carry Saber inside the library, she immediately had a crush on him. How do I know? She told me right after we got him in and we were out of earshot. he must have told her something, I don't know what and well, we'd better go see them. I can try to talk to him"

Meanwhile, in front of Fluttershy's cottage, the two had stopped and were leisurely talking by the time Twilight and Rarity came by.

"Uh, Fluttershy, we don't mean to pry but what happened?" Twilight asked.

"Me and Fluttershy had a private conversation. Saber explained "I told her that I know how she feels about me and how I feel about her and................. " He put the non blade wing around Fluttershy, pulled her closer and kissed her on the cheek, which made her blush furiously

"Terribly sorry Fluttershy and Saber," Rarity apologized, "I don't know how it could have been avoided but I'll try my best next time."

"Sorry about nearly impaling you with my wing. It was a involuntary impulse. I don't know why it happened. I just.........." He stopped talking. His black cheeks were tinted red and he looked down, embarrassed. "I don't know what to do. If the Changelings are coming for me, and I'm with Fluttershy, will they go after her?" Twilight and Rarity looked at Saber and saw concern for Fluttershy in his eyes, and that he really cared for her. They looked into Fluttershy's eyes. They saw what they always saw. Caring for everything that could be cared for but something new. Pure happiness. The hadn't seen Fluttershy this happy in a while.

"Er, Fluttershy, did you know that Saber is becoming a soldier in the Equestria army?"

"Oh my goodness, no I didn't! When does he leave?" she said startled

"We don't know. But me Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, a unicorn named Vinyl Scratch and, SaberStar are all preparing for war. That's why the wings are bladed and reversible. All we know about the shipping out date is that it is after the Grand Galloping Gala. So we'll all be able to go. Naturally all six of us can go but each one of us can bring one guest. Fluttershy....."

"Oh of course I'll bring Saber! I mean, that is if you want to..."

"Of course I'll come. Anywhere with you."