PoV: Jak

Location: Ponyville

Time: 1:00 P.M

One month since poison joked

One month, in one whole month a lot could happen, like having to be visited by future Twilight, Spike birthday, running away from Psycho Pyro, Pinkies parties and the party for one, hell we even went back to Haven City for some tools and materials, I even started Spikes meat diet and noticed him growing with each passing weak and with each day, each minute, I know my greatest failure will soon comeback to hunt me. Now, I'm here in the forest with my students, including the newest one Pyro.

"Whats the point of doing this again!?" Pyro shouted from the top of the cliff.

"This is to see if you can slow down your fall with a shout!" I shouted back as Spike and Rainbow were behind me using me phone for games. Pyro jumped off the cliff and started falling in high speed.

"Fus Roh Dah!!!!" He shouted, resulting in something I didn't expect. He was launched back into the air by the sheer force of the shout and was flying straight to Ponyville.

I sighed as I walked by Dash and took my phone back.

"Let's go get the dumbass and make sure he's alright." I said to them as I started walking towards town.  

We made it back to town and found Pyro in the fountain. I rolled my eyes while Dash and Spike were laughing at him. I helped him up and checked if he had any injuries, so I could avoid Flutter-rage.

"You feeling okay?" I asked him in a mono-tone as I waved my hand in front of his face.

"Yeah, but I'm not doing that again." Pyro said

"That's my decision, you should know that already." I said as we began to walk Sugarcube corner.

"What's up with you? You're acting very differently than usual." He asked. I quietly sighed as I looked over to him.

"I have...a mental condition, that kinda effects me in a depressive level, I had it under control but I remembered the one thing I failed to save, causing thousands if not millions of ponies to just vanish and it's going to comeback to hunt me." I said to him, gaining the attention of Dash and Spike.

"What do you mean, dude?" Dash asked.

"Nothing, I'll talk to you guys later." I said as I walked back to the forest.

'This time, I will not be broken, I will not be tortured and I won't be beaten down. I will make him regret his actions against the ponies, himself and his daughter.' I thought as I clenched my fist in rage.

"I'm coming for you Sombra, and when I do, you will beg for death." I said to myself as my eyes turned pitch black. I entered the forest and made my way towards a place to relax and I know just the place.

PoV: Pyro

It was only been a few minutes since Jak went back to the forest, but I couldn't help think on what he said, about his greatest failure coming back to hunt him.

'He couldn't mean the empire, right?' I thought as I entered Sugarcube Corner and was greeted with the sight of Nano serving some cake and a milkshake to a costumer, so I went over to greet him.

"Hey Nano." I greeted, gaining his attention.

"Hello, how can help you today, my friend?" He said as he stood in front of the register.

"I'm not here to buy, I just wanted to ask you if you've noticed Jaks change of behaviour?" I asked him, making him stop in his tracks and look at me.

"I'm not at liberty to disclose any information on that." He said in a serious tone.

"Can you at least tell me if it has something to do with the Crystal empire?" I asked him, wanting know more on how to help my friend.

"...Yes, and the one to blame is somepony Jak could've called a father. That is all I'm giving you, and I suggest you drop the subject at hand." Nano said.

"Alright, and thanks." I said as I walked out. Once outside, I saw very worried Twilight and Spike outside. Twilight was wearing a lavender blouse and some blue short jeans, while Spike was only wearing dark blue jeans.

"Pyro, have you seen Jak?" Twilight asked as she walked up to me.

"Yeah, he's at the forest, but He's been acting starnge as of late, maybe you could talk it out with him." I said to her.

"Whatever it may be, he should know that I'm always there for him." She said. Spike tapped her shoulder to gain her attention.

"It goes deeper than that, he said that it's a mental problem that he had under control." Spike said.

"Had, he had under control but something reminded him of his worst memory."  I said to them.

"I'll go see if I can help him out of his sad state." Twilight said as she began to walk towards the forest. I turned to look at Spike with one question in mind.

"Why are you shirtless?" I asked the Drake.

"Shit if I know, I didn't even realize I was shirtless till you pointed it out." He said as he looked at his chest.

"You think Jaks training paying off?" He asked as he flexed his arms.

"Shouldn't you go with Twilight?" I asked him, making him stop flexing his arms.

"I think she wants to do this herself, dude." He said as he crossed his arms and put them behind his head.

"You're just lazy, aren't you?" I said to him.

"You said it." He said as we began to walk around the town.

PoV: Twilight

I went to the forest in search of Jak. Earlier today I had gotten an invitation to my brothers wedding, and I should be excited about him finding somepony but He never told me anything and I don't even know who this Mi Amore Cadenza is. So, I set out to find Jak and tell him that we've been invited but what Pyro said to me worried me a little bit.

'I wonder if the spell he taught me will work right now.' I though as I casted an Eco tracking spell and followed the strongest source of Eco.

I followed the source and ended up near a lake with a large bronze platform with five smaller  ones surrounding it. I saw Jak sitting in the middle one cross legged and shirtless. I walked fowards and stepped on some thing. I looked down and saw that it was his shirt, satchel, googles and ring.

I looked back at Jak and saw that he had a strange mark on his back and scars scattered through out his back.

'He looks troubled, sad and depressed but why?' I thought as I kept looking at him. I then teleported behind him and began to walk slowly to him.

"Jak? Are You okay?" I asked him.

"Tell me Twilight, do you think I'm a monster?" He asked not even looking at me.

"What do you mean?" I asked him, getting more and more worried about him.

"I have been called a monster also a killer, a savage, a failure, freak , Killing machine, Soulless, Demon, but I never paid any mind to the endless insults, until I lost someone close to me." He said as I sat down next to him.

"Who?" I asked, wanting to know more.

"An Earth-pony stallion I could call my father, Samos. He taught me all I know about Eco and had helped me go through some emotional problems I had but I lost him to a tyrant." He said as he looked at his own reflection through the lake.

PoV: Jak

"I knew something was wrong when one day, he just vanished without a trace. I gathered any thing related to his disappearance and found that a unicorn stallion who had enslaved his kingdom had something to do with it. So Me, Celestia and Luna went to confront him against his actions towards his subjects but just when we had him, he casted a spell, making him and his entire kingdom along with it's residents to vanish." I said as a single tear dropped down to the water.

"Since then, I've felt like I was the monster for letting the innocent ponies suffer the consequences of my actions." I said, letting loose a few more tears. I then felt a pair of soft arms embrace me.

"You didn't know he was going to do that." I heard Twilight say as I saw the reflection of the me but wearing winter battle gear. I blinked and the reflection was now of me and Twilight sitting together with Twilight was hugging me.

"And I don't think you're any of those things, I love you for who you are not what you are." Twilight said. I turned over to her with teary smile.

"I love you too, Twilight." I said before kissing her. The kiss lasted for five minutes, we then got up and dusted ourselves.

"I want to show you something." I said to her as I got to the middle of the platform and stomped, making a large button appear on the floor. I the stomped on the button, making the pillar rise along with the others to create a way down.

"I come here when I'm feeling down and look at the view from here." I said as I put an arm around her. We could see all of the Everfree forest, Ponyville and Canterlot from up here. Twilight laid her head on my shoulder and let out a happy sigh.

"Before I forget, we've been invited to my brothers wedding," Twilight said as we sat back down and enjoyed the view in each others company.

"Yeah, an I got a feeling it's going to be one hell of a wedding." I said to her.

'I'm not a freak, a monster or a killer, I'm just me, a guy who's just 'lucky' enough to be here but, at least she makes it all worth while.' I said as I let out a happy sigh.

"You know what love can be?" I asked Twilight.

"Hmm?" Twilight hummed with her eyes closed.

"Love can be strong, amazing and a beautiful feeling." I said to her. I smiled as I looked forward to a better future.  

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