Epilogue pt. 2

The extensive underground of Canterlot has been for the most part sealed off to ponies from wandering on inside. Mostly due for the fact that it can be fairly dangerous to ones that don’t know their way out, many a time the rotted or mummified remains of ones that have gotten lost were finally found years after. Though with having this entire area sealed off, that does give a wonderful place to extend the castle basement into. Holding areas to house extra storage for the castle in case of sedge. Storage to hold the many casks of ageing alcoholic beverages for the elite’s pleasure, and a few choice ones there for the regal sisters alone.

On the glum side of things, the underground also holds many of the darker tombs for prisoners. However the youngest alicorn princess in Equestria is far past all these un-pleasantries at the moment. Going through many smaller and tighter spaces. You would finally reach a single room, lit only by a few white orbs of magic that are placed around. The sound of nothing more than water seeping through and dripping on the ground from the walls as it hits giving comfort to those that occupy this space.

For now though, they have some additional company as Twilight sits there on her hind quarters, talking quietly to the other two there with her. “Well it seems I find myself coming here more often as time goes on…” Twi shakes her head, realizing that she is still talking to nothing more than the king and queen that still remained trapped in the crystal of a cocoon.

After a few days of attempting to dig in to the structure to get to the pair, not a single dent was made in side of the crystalline structure by magic, hammer, pick axe, or any other sort of tool that could be found. The couple inside seemingly now to remain protected by their own tomb, and it was finally decided that it would be much better to have them contained where they can be watched.

“…I don’t know whether or not it’s because I want you to still pay for what you have done and can only hope I’m the one to find you, or simply because in a way I want to keep a watchful eye on you,” she rests a hoof against the glass like case. Still able to feel the energy radiate inside as they remain still lipped locked, and still very much alive. Never hearing the light hoof steps of one alicorn coming up in to the room. “You have taken so much from those around you, around us, and many in Equestria… you really don’t even deserve to be left in there, with each other.”

“I will admit that they don’t deserve much…” the voice makes Twilight even jump a bit as her teacher takes a few steps closer.

Looking over her student as she does. Celestia admires the attire she has picked out for the evening. The light blue, summery almost, color dress drapes down and around her hind and squeezes her form. Showing off the best parts of the mare’s form, almost making the eldest princess wish she got a new dress for the occasion. Even admiring the lace like corset piece that runs up the back and ties off at her tail. The black fringe on the ends leading around her hooves, which now scamper to try and right themselves as the young alicorn stands up.

“Oh… ahh sorry about that,” Twilight manages to trip over her own words while trying to speak, “I didn’t hear you come in.”

“That much is clear by now,” Tia lightly chuckles to herself at the mare’s expense, “though I have to say the dress is quite lovely.”

“You like it? Flash and I went out a few days ago and picked one,” she regards the craftsmanship that was put in to every stitch that was made, “seeing as he already got something to wear, and I didn’t want to be a burden to Rarity…”

“Already picking out dresses together I see? It won’t be long then…” Celestia still can’t help but poke fun a little more before coming here to express her actual reason for walking all the way, “I did want to apologize though for the little fun Luna and I had with you and your coltfriend after our training, it really was all good natured.”

“I have gotten used to your antics princess, especially with you taking after Discord so much sense you two got together,” Twi recalls many of the things that she and Discord would get in to with one another. Some just pranks on Luna or the guards in the castle, and some of the more erotic nature while they were itching a particular scratch with one another, “Don’t worry about it, honestly.”

“Good to know.”

“And we have talked about it… actually,” its Twilight’s turn to make the awkward face while she tries not to look at her teacher in the eyes.

“And Flash informed me to ease my mind I would guess when I went to your room to make this apology,” Celestia comforts the younger alicorn in a light embrace while they chat, “Though for now I will leave you with the same thing I told him… Wait until marriage,” she states in the most serious tone she can possibly manage.

Twilight finds the air cleared the more she laughs at the thought of having Sentry told this by the princess herself, considering what she and Dissy did, “Don’t worry Celestia, there will not be a foal between us at night until there is a ring a top this horn… though I will say you are one to talk about that matter.”

“And you can have your fun laughing about that,” Tia tries to maintain her composure, being able to take punishment from her sister quite well, considering they have been doing it for thousands of years. However, from Twilight, that’s another matter.

“Well on the bright side…” both she and the eldest alicorn turn around, standing before the crystal orb, “…when there are kids, you can serve as a teacher to motherhood.”

“And that I will assist with, though motherhood is something that can only be learned through experience, not teaching,” the white alicorn on any other occasion would talk about how even with the back ground of having been a ruler of an entire nation. She was, needless to say, ill prepared for becoming a mother herself. Many times almost breaking down while she tried to put together in her mind what to do right and what is the best choice for her kids. ‘That however, can wait till she has one,’ “for now though… I don’t think you will ever find a reason that you come down here to visit this pair.”

Twilight glances at the evil couple that remain frozen in time, “Perhaps you’re right about that, though it does give some kind of sense of security knowing they are still locked down in here…”

“You only want them to break out so they can be put down…”

Twilight bites down on her tongue, “…How long were you standing there listening to me?”

Tia giggles a bit at the lavender mare’s demise, taking a seat on the ground and motioning her student to do the same, “just long enough. I have myself on several occasions come down here as well.”

“And you can’t want any more than me. Just for some-”

“Payback?”

“Well…” Twilight stops for a second to think before she speaks, knowing full well that revenge is something that a princess should never ever go after. ‘Than again that is what happened with the full scale assault on the ruins… on the other hoof they were also getting me, and the Elements,’ “… okay, I don’t know what to say… I would expect to see you as a mother, still to come down here with a hammer and chisel trying to dig in to the crystal to get to them.”

The celestial princess takes her own moment to sigh at the thoughts that spurs up in her mind, knowing all too well that they aren’t something that even she should be thinking. Having a split mind on the subject to begin with. The regal side and the maternal side, each duke it out with one another on a daily basis. With a deep breath she tries to speak her piece, “And I would be lying if I said that wasn’t true… the mother in me wants to rip them a new one right now if I could. Doesn’t matter if they were lying down on the ground broken, defeated, bound and gagged. I would have the sheer desire to shatter everything they would ever hope to have…” Celestia takes a calming breath, “all that said though, the princess in me would want to give them the same treatment I did the subjects underneath them. It’s only fair.”

“You’re serious…” Twilight notes the small tear escaping the serious expression on Tia’s face as it pains her to even say those words. “Even after all they did? Attacking once again, killing untold amounts of your subjects, and Havoc at that? You would let them live?”

“Yes.”

The straight forward answer has the desired effect, as Twilight finds herself now completely shattered in whatever train of thought she originally had. Not fully able to understand the princess’s words as she repeats the answer over and over again. Leading her to only ask but one question, “But… why?”

“It’s the princess side of me talking… I’m a mother first and foremost, but royalty I have been far longer,” Tia gives the much needed answer, or reason at least, “as my sister so lovingly said while at the memorial, in due time, all will move on… if anything it represents her when she was Nightmare Moon. If I held on to what she did then, I may have not opened my heart to let her back in when you brought her back to normal. Or for that matter even my husband, if I didn’t think that he could be changed. None of those events that led up to me and him getting together, would have ever happened,” the princess starts to think of so many things that could have changed in their lives to cause nothing between them to blossom, “I don’t expect me and the queen to share a cup of tea with one another and laugh about the good old times… because quite frankly there are none. But to hold it too close, for too long, would result in only more death and destruction if they were to get out. I mean isn’t the sense of revenge that they had towards Equestria, what lead them to continue the fight?”

Thinking more and more about it, as much as she would hate to admit, Tia does make a point, “Okay you win in that case… so if they were freed right this second, you’d let them go.”

“After a good rump kicking to the point of near death with my trusty friend here,” Celestia holds up the prosthetic limb, whipping out the blade to admire it once more, “…then… yes.”

“Well then, you certainly are the better pony between us,” Twilight shakes her head at the thoughts of the many ways Chrysalis and Sombra should meet their demise, “Though, I will say that could change in the future, I guess.”

“Time heals all wounds, Twilight…” she rests a hoof on the mare’s shoulder, “who knows, perhaps they are good for one another.”

“In a sick twisted kind of way…”

“Well look how my husband turned out,” Tia points out, making a mental note of Twilight’s ‘Light bulb moment’ face, “After all, love is a powerful thing, now isn’t it?”

“So much so that their love allowed them to survive a spell that should have left nothing more than charred skeletons…” the mare grinds her teeth a bit at the failure in her mind of what she thought would have worked.

“Well a true feeling of affection between two creatures is powerful, no matter how bad they may be…” another excellent point is made coming from Celestia, “How else would their love have been able to conjure enough magic to form a protection spell, strong enough to save them. Similar to what Shining Armor and Cadance did at their wedding with the queen in the first place.”

“So you think it was true love as well?” Twilight asks, throwing her fellow princess off for a second while she ponders the thought once more.

“Needless to say, I have wondered…”

“Luna thinks the same actually, even Cadance… Discord is…” trying to think of a better way to explain that one, Twilight’s mind draws a blank, as Celestia picks up.

“He’s Discord… you really can’t say any more than that,” she thankfully finishes her younger counterparts sentence, as she continues, “as for this pair, I have to say that if they ever got out and decided to steer clear of Equestria… mostly because their lives depend on it. I would guess that they wouldn’t come back. Simply because the fear of losing the one you love, hopefully, would keep them from trying to attack. We all need a special somepony in our lives…” mulling it over in her mind. Twilight doesn’t have much to say on the matter, at least what would be clean to say in front of the princess. Though for now she can agree to that last bit, nodding her head slowly in recognition of what the princess said.

“…And it just may be, that she has found hers,” Twilight recalls the way Chrysalis looked at him in her time of need before it all ended. The way she spoke, while the lavender princess was still bound in the dungeon, of her feelings towards the dark unicorn. Twilight didn’t even think it was possible for a changeling to feel. Yet Chrysalis was starting to fall for him, and doing it hard at that. ‘In a sickly kind of way… they are good for one another,’ Twi admits to herself, ‘She just realized it, too late.’

“Exactly…” Celestia rises up from her seat while Twilight does the same, “…however for now. Let us leave these two to each other’s company… we have a Gala to attend…” and with that the princesses’ lets the wicked pair be.

Trapped in the crystal tomb, one can’t help but wonder what is going on in their minds or if it’s a comatose state to them. No matter what it may be, one can be sure that so long as you share the same point of view with Celestia. Chrysalis and Sombra wouldn’t want to be encased like a statue anywhere else, or with anypony else.

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The Gala is in full swing by this time. After a few years of dealing with the dull, repeating actions of the same party over and over again. Discord, in part with a certain pink party mare, spiced up the party to the point that even Celestia doesn’t dread the thought of making her presence known at the event. Gladly greeting the many guests that make their way up the steps, Tia retires from that task shortly after the last of the expected guests make their way in. Now left to stalk her prey, without messing up her dress, as she tries to sneak up on her husband while he partakes in several adult beverages at once. All feeding in to his mouth through a few straws.

“Gotcha!” she pounces at him, wrapping her fore hooves around his mid-section and causing him to stammer a bit to get his footing.

“Really now, Tia?” Discord checks to make sure nothing has spilled, “how much have you drank?”

“I could ask you the same thing actually…” she points to the many drinks surrounding him, making a note that not a single one is left half full.

“You could, but I know you won’t… besides ever sense harder liquors were introduced to this party of yours, by yours truly,” he proudly covers his chest with a talon, “things needless to say have gotten far more, bearable…”

“Hmm… that I will still admit, as you throw it in my face, every year,” Celestia snatches a drink out from his grasp and gulps down the remains, while a rather disgruntled husband pouts from the loss. The princess simply answers him with a single hoof raise up to his face before she finishes and is ready to speak, “that however, I needed.”

“So I should ask how much you will have tonight…”

“Enough to make it interesting later tonight, when we get to bed,” she winks at him.

All but forcing the air out of his lungs while the blood rushes to his face, grabbing a pitcher of water to quench his sudden thirst. In reality giving Discord a moment to think on how to respond to that one, but falling short, and only changing the subject.

“Well, Ahh… Rose is with your sister at the moment, why don’t we go find her? Im sure she’d like to see her mother in her favorite dress,” he holds out a paw so she can put her hoof through it, allowing him to lead the way through the mass of ponies enjoying the setting.

Apart from the higher alcohol percentage being added to the list of changes to the Grand Galloping Gala, so too was the dress requirement. Fancy get ups are welcome, but a well thought out summer time occasion dress would due just as well. A good thing considering the formal dancing is still a part of the occasion now, but more towards the beginning of the party. After a certain point when the patrons have had their fill of formality, the princess calls upon an actual DJ to hit up the booth, and spice things up.

A point like right now, as DJ-Pon3 puts on her head phones, snaps out the shades to cover her eyes and sets to work doing what she does best. “A-a-and… cue the wubs…” the white unicorn with the electric mane drops a single raised hoof, much to the upstanding applause of the many ponies now that will find themselves attending just to hear her tunes. The lights get dimmed down just a tad to add to the ambiance, just like the night mare likes while Luna finds herself raising her hooves up to the beat, and hoof bumping them up to the sky with the bass.

While at the same time, Rosebud does the same as she recalls the album, “I love this song!” she proclaims, having heard many of the DJ’s music.

Much to the dismay of her mother, who above all else would appreciate a good classical tune to have played at a party. However, certain occasions like this one require a little loss of tact, and therefore, a new playlist to have on set. The foal soon finding herself plucked from her aunt’s grasp and swooped up in her mother’s hooves, held even higher for her to listen.

“Woo-hoo!!!” the young alicorn squeals, following the DJ’s motions.

“I knew you’d like it…” Tia kisses her daughter’s hoof while her husband wraps a talon around her waist, pulling her in closer to him and running the clawed appendage down to her rump. Squeezing ever so slightly, to get a similar yelp out of the eldest alicorn, Celestia’s face turns crimson while she glares back at him.

“So that’s where Rose gets her yelp from?” he snickers at her, Discord holding her at hooves length for now while the music radiates through his skin as his goat hoof starts to tap to it.

“Well it certainly isn’t from you…” Celestia turns her head around after feeling the light hoof steps on her back, signaling that her daughter has taken it upon herself to turn her mother’s back in to a makeshift dancefloor, “…now she seems to have the right idea.”

“Then let’s get to it!” Discord swings his wife around in a circle and catches Rosebud at the same time. While they use the moment to put some past events behind them for the night, and enjoy the company, and the thrill that they can get from acting like a complete moron at the time on the dance floor.

After a little while, Luna, having already stayed up the last few nights. Is more worn out than one could imagine. The spa treatment not helping much, as it was cut rather short. Now choosing to have some fun at the bar, while she enjoys some of the choices she made from that interrupted treatment. Pounding back her third glass of brandy while taking in the rich flavor it has for such a drink. The lunar mare almost misses the hoof resting on her shoulder from a particular alicorn.

“Wonderful Gala, Luna…” Cadance takes a seat next to her and calls over the barkeep, “I’ll go with just the Rose wine,” she orders while turning her attention to her aunt.

“Oh I can’t take credit for that one. That was Discord’s deal…”

“He seems to have livened up the place, sense his changes a few years back…” Cadance has the memories of the past parties all too fresh in her mind still. On several occasions making the move to scoot back to the bed room with Luna with a few wine bottles of their own, and goof off on her game while the party continued.

“And livened up my sister as it would be as well…” Luna points over to the twirling white mare in a blur, as Tia spins about on her husband’s accord. Rose not far behind while she uses the rather energetic side of her to keep up with her parents and even surpass them on several turns, “…It’s a wonder she has any energy left in her. With a child, and a husband such as himself… how does she do it?”

“I’ve wondered that myself actually several times, about my aunt…” the love princess sips gingerly at her drink, seeing Luna not even paying attention, and swiftly gulping down half of it in one go to get her own buzz on.

“And what have you come up with exactly as a reason, behind her seemingly limitless energy?” Luna finally brings up.

“Well I have to say I currently am torn between, Celestia having copies of herself that take up the princess roll throughout the day while the others nap…” Cadance answers while holding a questioning hoof to her jaw line as she thinks, “… or the simple fact that she runs off of the love she shares with the two she is dancing with at the moment.”

“I think the latter sounds far more plausible…” Luna and her companion share a moment of laughter before the lunar princess goes serious without even intending on doing so, “it would explain why I seem to be out of it…”

“No luck in the love field I would assume?”

“Being banished to the moon can do that to you…” she tries to make an excuse.

“Ask Discord, he was put in stone and you see what happened to him,” Cadance brings up a point.

“He’s also insane to no end.”

“Your point being?” Cadance raises an eye brow, “I heard how you are out on the battle field.”

“That's passion, thank you very much…” Luna polishes off yet another glass, while still sulking in her own pity, “it would seem that’s all I can be passionate about.”

“And your video games” the pink mare reminds her.

“That may be part of the problem actually, I’ll admit that much,” slowly regretting the many hours she has still decided to put in on that blasted game. But at the same time thinking how she could get better at it, ‘yep…I’m addicted…’ she nods to herself.

“Well there are colts that would seem that is attractive to find in a mare…” Cadance mulls over the thought of trying to find Luna a special somepony, “…just a matter of looking for the right one for you.”

“Any that you can think of that wouldn’t mind being set up with the younger sister of the sun goddess herself?” the mare asks sarcastically, knowing full well that many colts in their right mind wouldn’t even try, for fear of Tia sending them to the moon if they were to hurt her.

“Not at the moment, but when I find one I will tell you.”

“No… don’t tell me,” Luna corrects, waving off the mare with a hoof, “I don’t want to know you’re trying. If you see something between us, push it a little, I mean you see how that worked for those two,” she points out to the dance floor at the young couple. Twilight and Flash wrapped around one another while they still manage to get in tune with one another in their steps, leaving only the two mares to watch over them from afar.

“Hmm I did do rather well with that, now didn’t I?”

“Of course, and it is rather romantic,” Luna goes all dreamy eyes at the prospect, “I mean a guard and his princess falling for one another…”

“Too cute,” Cadance starts to chuckle when she sees the figure of her own guard out in the crowd, “It seems to be a trend here…” they both silently agree with one another for the time being and finish off their current drinks. Having gotten her energy back to some extent, and after some help. Luna heads back to the dancefloor, while Cadance envelops Shining Armor.

Even when having ones friends there with you while one the dance floor, your colt friend, and on top of that your brother, his wife, the sun and moon princesses, the chaotic prince himself and the daughter of his own union… sometimes a mare will still find a reason to let loose on a night like tonight. Twilight is more than amped up from her previous engagement with Flash while they were supposed to be cleaning up. Plus the generous helping of wine that she has indulged in, is more than having the desired effect, as Twi loosens up for now and enjoys herself for the time being. While her friends do the same in their own way.

Pinkie having the time of her life even without the party cannon. Rarity and Spike leaving all of their close friends making their own assumptions on their ‘friendship’, as his claws run down her back closer and closer to her rump with every passing song. Applejack almost losing her hat once or twice in the fray, mostly due to Rainbow taking it for a time and wearing it herself to tease her friend. Fluttershy at first, living up to her name and not speaking to a soul, while she cowers out by the bar much like Luna had for a time. That is until the guard that she met while in the med ward, meets her up by the bar. Leaving her and Cobalt Mail to chat with one another to no end. Even to the point of the shy pony being the one to make the effort to drink enough liquid courage, so she drags Cobalt out on the dancefloor.

Though out of all of them, from Cadance grinding up and down her husband, even in front of her aunts. To Luna showing more flexibility than she ever would while sober. The cake has to be taken by Celestia and Discord, the latter knowing no end to his skill when it comes to the art of dancing and still learning it the more he partakes.

“Where did you learn to do that?” Tia questions him after he brought her up and under his legs to face him yet again after whipping her through the air, almost giving the princess whiplash as a result.

“That I don’t even know, honestly…” Discord extends his tail, and wraps it around her midsection to press her in to him even more so, “…that one though, I planned on.”

“Easy now, dear…” Celestia looks to their daughter still close by and enjoying herself very much in her own little world. While at the same time, the elder alicorn now making the move to levitate a glass of scotch and finish it in one go, “…there are little children present, for such acts of affection.”

“As you increase your blood alcohol content?”

“That’s beside the point,” she rebuttals. While the party and the dancing continuing on for the royal family and many of the ponies there. It leaves a few finding themselves tuckered out at the moment, and taking a break from the floor to get some air on the patio overlooking the rest of Canterlot.

Among them being Twilight, Flash, Cadance, and Shining as they let the cool air help ease their joints and limbs. Twi resting both hooves on the railing as she takes in the lights of the city and the stars overlooking them all while the view captivates her, taking in a deep breath and letting it fill her lungs, she slowly exhales the clean air savoring the moment of piece, “And to think, just several months ago we were fighting for our lives…” she mutters only to herself, but it is caught by one more.

“And I can’t really see that happening any time soon still,” the comforting wing of her colt drapes over her back, allowing the princess to nuzzle up in to his neck.

“Good to know, I wouldn’t want to miss this for the world…”

“Trust me dear, neither do I,” Flash kisses the top of her head while they both share the moment together, “for now, I just want to be able to enjoy this with my favorite mare.”

“Suck up…” she follows up with a quick peck to his cheek, “…still as sweet as the day I met you.”

“Oh now who’s the one sucking up?”

“Ahh… Let’s just call it a draw shall we? Besides it’s not often we’ll get to have times like this… not with the new job role,” Twilight is reminded of the new titles that they both share. Almost breaking the moment for them while the thoughts of having to run around all of Equestria and the other nations dawns on her from just how much time that will take up. Now wondering if they will really ever have time for each other. ‘Though at least with him still as my assistant he won’t be far away.’

“Don’t worry, I’ll always be close by no matter how much time we may get to spend with one another on a personal level,” his voice cuts off her train of thought as she jumbles them all together.

“How did you know...?”

“You really can be an open book at times dear…” he reminds her, following up with a tender hoof holding her chin up so her lips can meet his, “…but no matter the doubt, there will always be time for us.”

Twilight is the one to close the distance between them and meet his lips, pressing in to them fully as she can hear the ‘awe…’ coming from her sister in law who is close by. The same warmth and caring on his lips from this kiss, as the first time she got to taste them. Under the moon light on the bridge in the park on their little ‘date’ of sorts. The first kiss they shared, of many to come, and still just as sweet as the one they share now. Leaning up next to him again, as their lips part one another, Twilight hears the audible voice of two she knows all too well currently talking to her brother and Cadance. Instantly whipping around to see her mother, Twilight Velvet, and father, Night Light, standing there chatting away with their son and his wife.

“Excuse me just a second…” Twilight presses a hoof on to his chest, drawing his attention.

Flash looks at her eyes, trailing them down to the couple talking to the captain and the princess. After a few seconds, it finally dawns on him their importance, “Are they who I think they are?”

“Yes, I knew they were going to be attending… though I didn’t know when they would be here… just one moment,” Twilight trots off over to her brother’s side as her guard nods to her, staying put for now.

Greeting her parents with a warm embrace as the life is nearly squeezed out of her at the same time from them both, “Mom, Dad it’s so great to see you! I was hoping you could make it,” she beams at them while her mother returns the greeting with a second squeeze around her daughter.

“Oh we wouldn’t miss this for the world, dearie,” Velvet replies.

“We live in Canterlot after all,” her father chimes in, “and with us on the princess’s mailing list, we’ll always take the opportunity to see our daughter. Considering now she works even closer to the princess than before.”

“And we are so proud of you,” Velvet beams at her daughter, noting the rising blood in Twilight’s cheeks from what she thinks is a result of that, “Don’t worry now dear, you and I have talked about how you can be nervous working with the princesses on more pressing matters in Equestria.”

“And we both know you’ll do just fine when it comes to that,” Night Light follows up with, “and from what I hear, you have had quite an interesting few months recently? We don’t get to hear from you nearly as often, or as much as we’d like to after all… why don’t you tell us all about it? If you’re not too tired that is.”

“Oh don’t worry dad, I’ll tell you how I’ve been, and what I’ve been up to lately…” Twilight’s face turns redder at that thought and something else in her going on. ‘I mean where could I start? Let’s see, the queen getting out, freeing the king, using him to power herself, almost dying several times over, being attacked by changelings, getting kidnapped by Sombra, the Elements of Harmony being lost and turned evil, having a fight to the death with Chrysalis, and now getting to a new position in the castle?’ her brain takes a mental breath to continue so it doesn’t fall apart. Looking over her shoulder a tad before seeing a special colt there waiting for her go, ‘yeah… so much to tell… though I can start with this. Considering it all really did start when he got here.’

“Is everything alright now Twily?” her dad asks, seeing the obvious expression on her face, “you seem rather embarrassed? Did something happen?”

“Dad…” Shining takes a stand for her, “Twilight’s mind is just a little all over the place at the moment…”

“…And don’t worry, dad,” She jumps back in to the fray, “I’ll tell you and mom all you want to know, most of it can wait till tomorrow. We’ll catch up even more than, for now though, I can start with this… there’s some pony I would like you to meet,” Twilight motions her hoof in a wave to gesture him forward, as Flash trots over to her side.

Twilight Velvet, having the eyes of a hawk, like any good mother would. Notes that this colt is standing far closer to her than any other colt, short of Shining, has ever to Twilight. The strong stallion only being offset by the prosthetic wing he wears, but his calm, collective and caring blue eyes that he holds on display for them to see more than make up for the questions that may be buzzing around the parent’s minds as they wonder what happened to him. The sweet voice registers to both parents, as he smiles and extends a hoof.

“Ma’am, sir, it is a pleasure to meet you both,” he responds to each of them respectively as they each shake hooves, “…I’m Flash Sentry.”

Author's Notes:

To those of you who took the time to read (liking it, disliking it, or just killing a little time here and there), thank you. It's been fun