Truth Beyond Understanding

The six of them here? They’re seasoned warriors Twi; they probably dealt with this ever since their entire life! Remember, their whole world was in a state of war!

Do I have to repeat it again? Twilight… THEY… ARE… SEASONED… WARRIORS!

The only reason they aren’t taking this seriously is because this is nothing compared to what they had to deal back in their home world! We never dealt with this kind of threat before, but they have, probably numerous times! With all of this happening to this hundreds or heck, maybe thousands of times, they could probably challenge each other to push their limits or just for some good old fashion fun even if we haven’t faced this before!

Those words continue to linger in Twilight’s thoughts just as she awakened. Yesterday, an unlikely threat emerged and the six humans came to help them in their time of need. As happy as Twilight was with them being selfless enough to assist them, the competition between Vargas and Eze still lingered in thoughts alongside Rainbow’s words. She sat up on her bed while rubbing her head with her forehooves in confusion. Just how can they, the six humans, treat what was a serious threat they conceived as something normal? Even if Rainbow was right that their world was in a state of war for a long time and it happened to them on a daily basis, it still did not make sense to the bearer of magic at all.

She was very baffled about this whole thing. She knew that she needed an answer about it sooner or later. Thinking about this for a long time will hinder her more so then she wishes it. Twilight looked out the window to see the Sun rising past the hill. If she wanted to know the answer to all of what transpired yesterday, she’d have to do so soon. She tossed the blanket aside as she stepped out of her bed. Her nose scrunched a bit as she smelled the aroma of food being cooked today. She couldn’t help but smile seeing that her assistant was already ahead of her.

Walking down the stairs, she followed the smell into the kitchen where she saw Spike cooking up some pancakes and coffee. She hugged the little dragon just as he finished the last pancake, “Thanks for cooking Spike, Celestia knows I’m in need of food right now…” She sat on the table as the food was set in front of her.

Spike got up on his chair eating a cupcake made with sapphire gems, “No problem Twi! You know that I always do this for you…” The purple mare chuckled a bit from her number one assistant’s words as she went to eating her food. Spike was about to eat his cupcake when something popped in his mind. He snapped his finger for almost forgetting about it, “Aw shoot Twilight, I almost forgot, Applejack said that she wanted to meet you at the hospital alongside everypony else.”

That got her attention as she looked at Spike with curiosity, “Really? What is it she wants me for?” She looked down to see that she finished eating her pancakes much to her surprise.

The little dragon shrugged, “Beats me, probably got something to do with those six in the hospital…” By mention of those six, he felt something gnawing at him about them. Spike looked at Twilight who was about to leave when he stopped her with a question, “Wait Twi! Can I come with you to the hospital? I wanna see those six again and um… ask them some questions?”

The purple mare looked at her assistant with a smile. She couldn’t deny him to come since today was going to be a normal day at least she hoped, “Sure why not? I was planning to ask them some questions as well.” Spike smiled as he tossed his cupcake high into the air and let it fall into his mouth. He rubbed and banged his belly a few times before following Twilight to the hospital. As they left the library, she closed the door and put up a sign that said, Out for meetings, will return in a later time. She finds the saying a bit silly and thought of maybe changing it someday.

She decided to do so on a later time as she didn’t want to keep her friends waiting. Spike followed behind as they walked to the Ponyville Hospital. During the walk, her thoughts pondered on two things, one was if the doctors were able to heal those six. Considering they were of alien origin, she could see them struggling a bit on trying to heal them. She couldn’t even if she tried since she doesn’t know their biology well enough to assist them in any way possible.

The second was involving Rainbow’s words yet again. She just could not stop repeating them over in her mind trying to understand the cyan pegasus’s understanding. Though now that she bought that up, she couldn’t help but notice that for all the bold and brash exterior Rainbow has, she can be smart when she needs to be. She could probably be very well be a pony version of Eze considering their similarities. It was odd yet rather hilarious for some reason.

The idea of those two competing made her chuckle a bit in the inside. Just as her thoughts were dispelled with Spike looking at her oddly, she looked ahead to see the Ponyville Hospital ahead. She let out a sigh she never had in mind as they entered inside the premises. The hospital was bristling with activity as nurses and doctors were walking or running back and forth while chatting with one another about patients and what-not. Twilight walked up to the reception desk where a nurse noticed her just as she arranged her folders, “Hello there Miss Twilight! I was expecting you considering your friends are here. I’m guessing you wish to head where the Six Heroes as they call themselves reside in?”

Twilight nodded rather quickly. The nurse smiled as she pointed towards the northern hall of the hospital, “Right that way then in Room…” She looked at the folders again trying to recall which room they were in. After three seconds exact, she repeated the process with confidence, “Room 109, north from here. Sorry about the short delay there, I’m kind of new in the nursing business.”

Twilight let a smile form as she looked ahead, “It’s no problem, thank you very much.” The nurse returned the smile as she went back to doing her job. Twilight walked ahead towards their destination with Spike behind her. She didn’t need to know where the room is as her friends were just outside the door waiting. They turned and greeted her with a wave and a smile. She waved back as she was near enough to voice her apology, “Sorry I was late girls…”

Rarity waved a dismissive hoof as she was stilling smiling, “No worries darling, we all were kind of late before you are. It was rather sudden for all of us considering how busy we were…” She was looking at Applejack when she said that last line.

The apple farmer took off her Stetson and weakly chuckled a bit, “Ah oopsies there?”  Rarity could sigh a bit from her response. At least the sudden meeting was not without its purpose as all of them looked at Twilight. All of them looking at her made her a bit apprehensive. Applejack was the first to speak out the reason of this gathering, “Twi, we’re a bit worried ‘bout ya… Rainbow told us ‘bout yer conversation with her yesterday…”

Twilight’s ears flattened on her head now knowing the topic of this meeting, “Oh… you’re worried about that?” They all nodded though Pinkie seemed to nod just because she wanted to join in. She was gazing at each of them now noticing that Rainbow was not a part of the meeting. She wasn’t so sure on where Rainbow is but Twilight hoped that she could apologize even if her mind wasn’t in the right place, “I’m sorry about it girls, but you know how important this is to me… I just want to understand why they were competing against each other during that time. My mind just won’t stop thinking about it at all…” She looked towards her friends who were looking at each other. Time felt like it slowed down on Twilight as she awaited their response. Their answer to her surprise was a generous smile on all of them as they moved out of the way of the door and gestured her to enter. She was silent for some time before asking them, “Why? I thought you’d stop me from going in…”

“Remember the lesson darling when you were ahem, a bit wild in the head?” Twilight immediately understood where Rarity was getting and a smile was forming, “We’re taking that lesson to heart darling. We may not see it as important but you clearly so we are not stopping from following it. We’re just worried that you might get… um, what’s a good way to put this lightly?” She put a hoof on her chin trying to think of a way to ease the sentence a bit.

“We’re just worried that you might be a biiittt loco in the moco…” Pinkie was waving her right hoof around in a circle over her head. Twilight knew that sign as someone getting crazy yet she couldn’t but laugh at her friend’s way of saying and showing it.

Her hyper-active friend was smiling at seeing her laugh. She somehow pulled a cannon from behind her despite there being nothing behind them. As the cannon fired, she jumped with the confetti showering them. Thankfully, she managed to avoid slamming into her friends in the ensuing jump. Twilight let her laugh lower itself down to a manageable level, “Thanks girls for understanding, I really appreciate it…” Before she thought of entering inside though, she wanted to know where Rainbow was, “So… where’s Rainbow Dash?”

Applejack let her smile fade for a bit as she removed her Stetson and scratched her head, “Uh, would ya believe me in that she’s in there?” The apple farmer gestured towards the room where the six humans were resting. Twilight’s response was of shock as she walked towards the door and looked through the window. Sure enough, she was there flying around and chatting with them. Lance, Eze, and Atro were on the beds, Vargas was perched on the wall watching, Magress was somehow sitting on a chair and Selena was sitting on the space next to the window. The sight surprised her but what came next shocked her even more, “Yeah Ah find that difficult t’ believe but ya’d be even more shocked when she was the one t’ suggest t’ us checkin’ em out.”

She managed to get Twilight’s full attention as she looked at Applejack fully trying to absorb this new revelation, “Wait, so you mean to tell me that Rainbow, the one pegasus that normally is brash in her actions, suggested to all of you to see if they--” She pointed a hoof at the six humans, putting emphasis on the word, “Were faring well?” She almost found the idea rather hard to believe at first. Even the ponies (sans Fluttershy) who came by her suggestion found it rather hard to believe as well. As silence dominated them for a long while, it was broken by Twilight, “I think we’re all underestimating Rainbow if she was able to do something like this.”

They all nodded in agreement, “We all came before Rainbow though. She decided to go last for some odd reasons…” Twilight had to blink twice just to be certain she heard that right. Rarity reaffirmed her suspicions as she almost repeated what she said, “Going last, why do I get the strangest feeling that she’s trying too hard?”

Applejack just shrugged not seemingly bothered by the change of attitude, “She’s still her bombastic self Rares, Ah just think that’s she either not herself or she’s steadily turnin’ a new leaf.”

“I’d say that I like that Dash is ‘turning a new leaf’ as you say it Applejack. It’s rather a good thing for her and for all of us.” The other two agreed with the development following Rainbow though the idea still did surprise them a bit.

They saw her soon to be coming out from the door. Twilight was not responding as she stood still like a rock. They pushed out of the way as the door opened and the cyan pegasus flew forward, “Man, they sure have a lot of stories to tell it’s almost crazy!” She saw Twilight staring into nowhere with her mouth opened in shock. She let a smirk form as she put her two front hooves on her chin, “So… did I surprise you or something?”

Rarity came over to the bearer of magic’s side as she closed her opened mouth with her hoof, “I’d say you most definitely surprised her by a longshot darling…”

Rainbow could only chuckle seeing her friend’s current expression, “Yeah I can tell… so now that we’re done… Twilight, are you going in or what to chat with them?” She lowered her hooves down see that she was not responding to her question. Rainbow waved a hoof in front of the immobile Twilight, trying to get a reaction. She even bonked on her head a few times to get her to respond, “Hello? Twilight to Equestria, come in Twilight? Hello?”

The predicament was noticed by Vargas from where he stood. He came forward wanting to see what was going on, “What seems to be the problem friends?” He turned to see a stunned Twilight stiff and unmoving form her spot. This was confusing to the fire hero as he waved a hand in front of her first, before snapping his fingers hoping that the sound would make her react, “Is this normal for her to be like this?”

Fluttershy joined in the fire hero’s attempt to snap her back into reality, “Mostly yes. Whenever she learns something shocking to her, she tends to either have a hard time either believing it or tries to learn and understand it. It’s happened once with Pinkie though how she approached was towards the latter.”

“Is that true Fluttershy? What would make Twilight so inclined to…? It’s the Pinkie Sense isn’t it? Right or wrong?” They all nodded once pretty much confirming his suspicions, “Of course… I still question it from time to time but sometimes, even the impossible is best not known.” They all shared his understanding and agreed. Vargas put tapped his chin with his index finger trying to think of a way to snap her out of this trance. An idea slowly formed in his head as he stopped tapping his chin. He unsheathed his sword that hung on his back eliciting reactions from all five. His sword suddenly was set ablaze and was put in front of Twilight.

The heat and the smell of smoke was enough to snap her back as she backed away from Dandelga screaming. Rainbow laughed loudly as she saw Twilight breathing heavily from the scare, “Oh sweet Celestia Twilight that was hilarious!” She looked towards Vargas as he sheathed his sword, the flames snuffed out by his command, “Vargas, I did not see you to be that kind of guy!”

The fire hero just shrugged much to Rainbow’s delight and bewilderment, “Blame the fact that I’ve been around Eze for a bit too long. I think his tendencies are rubbing off of me…”

“I heard that Vargas and I’ll gladly accept it!” The thunder hero screamed from the top of his lungs eliciting another laugh from Rainbow. This time though Pinkie and Applejack joined while Rarity just shook her head and Fluttershy just watched the scene. The fashionista did let a quiet chuckle escape but it was only noticed by Fluttershy who was nearby her.

Vargas just smiled seeing his friend acting like so, “I’m just more surprised that you were able to chat with these girls just fine when I remembered that you would stutter whenever you were around women in general every time Eze!” All of them were looking back and forth at both swordsmen repeatedly from the revelation. A snicker escaped from Eze as the knowledge was now known to everyone and he burst into laughter. It wasn’t long before all of them ended up laughing about it together. The six ponies and humans, despite having only met each other three days ago, were acting like they were the best of friends. Both were happy with the idea regardless of their philosophies in their respective worlds. Doctors and patients around the hospital heard the commotion and were curious about what was going on. The result of them finding out was met with confusion or joy. After a few minutes of good laughter, Vargas took a few deep breaths before changing the topic, “I haven’t had a good laugh like that in a long time. This day just got brighter for the better.”

“In your case, it would be literally considering your element.” Lance pointed out. The fire hero let out a chuckle and conceded to the idea. A cough escaped from the nature hero prompting everyone’s attention. A smile formed as he gestured Twilight to enter, “We have heard everyone’s concern but our fellow librarian here.”

Twilight’s eyes almost seemingly shimmered upon hearing Lance’s words. She turned around to look at her friends. They smiled and gestured her to do as she wished. She returned the smile and hugged them as thanks, “You girls are the best friends I could hope for…” They still wore their smile as Twilight let go of them prompting them to gesture again. She nodded and moved forward to meet the six humans. The five closed the door leaving the librarian with the humans. Despite their friendly nature and of that big laughter, Twilight was still nervous from being alone with these six. Standing in front of her, they exuded power and knowledge beyond her imagination, possibly even exceeding even Celestia herself. As silly as that sounded, she couldn’t help but feel that it’s true. The nature hero snapped her out of her nervous trance, “Is something the matter Twilight?”

She looked at each one of them after the question was asked. Their eyes showed a level of concern that would be fitting for helping a friend in need. The fact that they are showing that same level to her was enough to ease her troubles a bit, “No, not really… I guess I’m just a bit intimidated by the fact that I’m alone in here with you six. Even if I were taking into account your friendly nature, I still feel a bit… nervous I guess.”

She felt something on her left shoulder. Turning her head to it, she saw Selena’s hand there, as a sign of understanding. Looking up into her eyes, she was met with the ice hero’s carefree smile. She lowered herself in level to her eyes while somehow comforting her, “It is very understanding what you’re going through dear Twilight. You don’t have to be ashamed to admit it otherwise.”

Twilight felt her face slightly heat up a bit. One of the hero’s took notice of her blushing and pointed out to everyone. To their surprise, it was Atro, “It seems someone is blushing today…” The bearer of magic nervously chuckled while her face was getting a bit redder from the light hero noticing. Atro could only watch the scene in amusement as she tried to get back on topic. Eze snickered seeing her struggle to even talk once.

Selena stood up and was next to her friends’ sides watching the stuttering Twilight recover slowly but surely from it. The librarian’s face was beginning to return back to its original color as she raised a hoof to her mouth and cleared her throat from the sound she was making, “So… everyone’s already shared their thanks and concerns?”

“Everyone has but you according to your friends.” The only armored knight said. Twilight couldn’t tell what emotion he was showing behind his helmet but his voice at least had some level of concern behind it for certain.

“Right… Well um… I’m thankful for you six helping us out even if we only just became friends.” A smile was beginning to form on Twilight’s face, “I’m also thankful for you being understandable for all of us. I never thought to actually see all of us as friends in only three days I believe.” She was scratching her head while chuckling nervously from the revelation there.

She looked in front of her to see Eze about to shrug before he winced a bit from the pain. He lowered his arms down but still wore that grin of his, “Hey, when you get to understand people, you tend to develop quickly right? Did I get that right?” He was looking towards his friends hoping for a gesture or two. They all nodded to his statement.

“Thank you Eze, I really needed that.” The thunder hero smiled at her thanks while somehow puffing his chest a bit causing his friends to chuckle at his antics. Twilight smiled in returned seeing them acting just like how her friends would be when they were having fun. All of this almost made her forget why she was here in the first place. She shook her head a bit trying to get back in the topic at hoof, “Um, is it okay if I ask you six a question?”

Twilight’s body felt like it froze in place as all eyes were on her and silence was met. The atmosphere in the room suddenly changed from cheerful to one of creeping dread that slowly loomed over the magic bearer. She was eyeing each one of them and all she can tell was that they looked to have anticipated this moment from the very beginning. That was confirmed by Vargas and it made her almost shrink from being in the presence of these six alone, “Is this about the supposed conversation between you and Rainbow Dash?”

Twilight’s ears fell flat on her head again. She looked away a bit from them knowing about why she was here now. Her reaction was enough of an answer for all six yet they still wore their smiles, “If you are worried about us being offended, don’t worry, we’re not.” Twilight’s head rose slowly looking at Magress who spoke out for them, “We know you at least well enough to know that you’d be curious about us sooner or later. Ask what lingers in your head and we’ll answer to the best of our abilities.”

She was looking at each one of them wondering if they shared the armored knight’s sentiments. Their smiles never faded as they awaited her question. Twilight’s nervousness was beginning to disappear truly as she smiled as well, “I swear, I think the six of you beat me and my friends in terms of acceptance quickly.”

The thunder hero tried to shrug again but was stopped by Selena who put her hand on his arm stopping him from hurting himself too much. Eze pouted a bit before lowering his arms in reluctance, “Eh, what can we say, we try our best…” He winked at Twilight causing her to stammer a bit while blushing.

Lance took notice and looked towards him, “Eze, since when have you started to pick on girls and try to embarrass them now? First Rarity and now Twilight…” He saw his idiot friend just shrug with success this time with a grin that definitely said to Lance, I felt like it because it was fun. Lance sighed before he let a little chuckle escape him.

“If you keep this up Eze, we won’t be able to hear Twilight’s questions so please stop playing around for now…” Atro was looking at his trickster of a friend with a concern yet indigenous look.

The thunder hero could only pout a bit, “Aw but it’s so much fun to pick on them!” The light hero just kept the look on until Eze conceded with Atro, “You’re a party pooper you know that right?”

He could only sigh from that statement as he looked at Twilight. She was still stammering and blushing from the action done by the swordsman. Atro bonked her on the head with his sword causing her to clutch her head in pain while looking around who did it. That only made Vargas and Eze laugh out loud from the hilarity of what just happened. The squire looked at them in confusion before returning his attention towards the bearer of magic, “Twilight, if you are ready, you can ask your question now.”

“Wait what, what was I doing?” She was looking at each one for the six who were patiently waiting for her to do something. Her mind clicked when she recalled why she was with them in the first place, “Oh, right, now I remember.” She raised her right hoof to her mouth as she cleared her throat and looked back towards them to see if there was anything else they were going to do. As a few seconds pass with nothing but silence, Twilight decided to continue on, “So about that conversation with Rainbow, did she tell you the specific details of it or left it with me and her having just a conversation?”

All six looked at each other trying to recall their chat with the cyan mare. It did not take them long to recall the details from Rainbow’s perspective, “Well, she didn’t not anything specific, just noted that she had a conversation with you. On what about though, she left it vague and said to wait on you to fill us in the rest of the missing details.”

Twilight was musing over what the nature hero said. With the knowledge that she didn’t disclose what the conversation, she continued on with the chat, “Okay, so she didn’t tell you anything specific…” The purple mare let out a sigh, “Well, I guess I won’t keep you in the dark any longer. I wanted to know about how all six of you managed to treat what happened yesterday. I just don’t understand how all of you were able to treat such a serious threat as something normal…”

“Can you please tell me why? I just can’t see it being possible at all even if I don’t know where you came from or who you are exactly…” Twilight was hoping for an understandable answer from them. She was looking at them waiting for their response to the question at hoof.

To her shock and bewilderment, their answer was something she did not expect, “No…” She was looking at them again, her look betraying how she was feeling inside. The one who answered her question was Magress. Underneath his helmet, he bore a look of betrayal towards the bearer of magic yet also a hint of understanding as well. They knew her well enough to be a bookworm willing to learn anything and everything she sets her sights on. It reminded them of a certain other bookworm who was fascinated by the display of knowledge and power that many gods unleashed. Yet even as she remained a pacifist and fought back only because the situation called for it, it ultimately led to her downfall by those she learned from.

The armored knight looked towards his fellow compatriots to continue the conversation for him. Before anyone of them could continue though, they were interrupted by Twilight, “No? That’s your answer for me? No?” They looked at her with worry and concern about the denial. She looked like she was about to fall apart in front of them, “Why? Why not tell me? I just want to understand how you do it…”

That was the word they knew would trouble them, understand. Vargas let out a sigh as he decided to continue the conversation, “We want to tell you it Twilight but…”

Before he could continue any further, he got interrupted by the knowledge seeker, “But what?” The tone almost threw each one of them off. It almost sounded like a threat and this was coming from a unicorn that did not know how to fight well, “That I won’t understand? Is that what you mean?”

All six humans looked at each other noticing that she was beginning to lose her temper. They knew well enough that this conversation may not be able to continue if she loses control of her anger. Selena readied her ice powers just in case if she has to stop her. Lance looked at her eyes as he continued the conversation, “Yes, it is exactly what we mean. Twilight, we know you well enough to be a seeker of knowledge and we hate to deny you this but you must be aware that this is something you cannot…”

Again he got interrupted by Twilight as she went into a rant or at least they think it is, “Don’t try that with me, I’ve learned a lot of things in Equestria that would make any professor jealous of the vast knowledge in my head. Oh sure, the two princesses have more knowledge than me but that doesn’t count or matter!”

A few of them were looking at her in confusion. There are princesses living in this world? They were never told about there being royalty in this world by any of them. They were thinking about asking her about this but decided to do so at a later time. They had to focus on the topic and her temper first before going about the royalty inhibiting this world. They were at least thankful that she didn’t notice her slip up or if she did, she didn’t bother with it at all. Eze decided to be the next to try to talk her down, “Twilight, calm down right now. I may be an idiot but I know that you losing your cool will not help all of us here.”

She didn’t heed the thunder hero’s words as she continued to go on her argument, “I will not calm down here, I want to know right now how you six can treat what happened yesterday like it was an everyday normal occurrence for you right now!” Just as she seemingly said through clenched teeth, her mane was looking like it was beginning to smoke.

To the six humans, that was most definitely not a good sign and they knew that they were running on a ticking time bomb. Selena tried to cool the temperature on Twilight but the heat was overwhelming the ice as she seemingly only was getting hotter by the second, “I can’t seem to make the smoke dissipate! I don’t think I can do anything here!”

Atro removed the blanket and tried to get up by his own strength. His body faltered for some time before regaining his composure as he stood up, “Twilight, I beseech you to calm down. Do not let your anger consume your thoughts.”

They were getting nowhere with her as she continued with her argument, “Why?! Why won’t you tell me?! I have enough knowledge in my head to understand why you’d treat what happened like it was normal for you! I want to know about it so I can study it! Why won’t you answer my question?! Just why will you not?!”

“Twilight Sparkle! Calm down this instant or so help me, I will show you the true meaning of immolation by my flames!” Twilight almost instantly calmed down as the smoke on her mane dissipated and looked at Vargas with abject horror. His companions on the other hand look at him in shock from the sudden death threat and outburst. Fire seemingly danced around him as he looked down upon his raging friend. As he saw her calm down, the flames that burned strongly around him wisps away and he returned to his kind tone, “I am sorry for denying you this knowledge Twilight but we have good reasons as to why in the first place…”

Twilight still stared at the fire hero with fear but rose up shakily. Vargas lowered himself to her level and assisted the mare up. It was not long before she hugged the swordsman and let her tears go and whimpered from the fearful situation. Despite being bedridden, Eze and Lance got up while wincing a bit in pain and came towards the mare. The other two joined as well and comforted her saying their apologies. Vargas was the last to say his sorry as he comforted the shaking mare, “I am sorry for that threat there Twilight. I really there was another way but you would not listen to reason and…”

He didn’t need to say any further as Twilight embraced her friend tighter, “I know and I’m sorry for not thinking there. It’s just that what I saw… it was so scary, so much worse than almost being eaten alive by that Serpens.”

All of them could understand why she would seemingly find what she saw now to be more terrifying than the last one. They let go of each other and after she was done wiping a few tears away, she looked at them with curiosity once again, “Before I go any further into why we wish to not tell, are you feeling much more better now?” She nodded as she keenly listened for anything important, “Good, I don’t want to go through this again please.”

Despite what they all just went through, they all couldn’t help but chuckle a bit from Vargas’s statement about it what it being true enough. After their laughter slowly died down, the fire hero continued on with the subject, “You already know part of our reason and that was you wouldn’t understand. But even if you were able to, the knowledge about how we treat yesterday would not exist because…” He fell silent trying to find some way to convey the message without being too blunt.

However, he got beat by Magress who was direct at the message, “This country is a utopia in of itself and paradises like what we are in are doomed to fall.” This earned some glares from his companions as they were not pleased with him being blunt. Despite hiding his face behind the helmet, his voice spoke firmly about the topic, “You know it to be true… and a part of our message.”

They all sighed and can only agree with the armored knight about it. Twilight on the other hoof was confused about what they meant, “Equestria a utopia? Well that I can’t argue with, but the country and we residing in it doomed to fall? I don’t understand that there…”

They all looked at each other. They knew this lesson in mind all the way back to their childhood yet Twilight has not a clue about it? It made their message all the more meaningful but before they could speak about it, there was something about the royalty in mind that they wished to know, “Twilight, you may not know this but during your… argument, you told us about there being two princesses inhibiting this world.” Twilight gaped a bit before shrinking a bit realizing that she just gave away information like that during her anger. She looked back at them and saw what seemed to be a dismissive hand from Vargas, “Don’t worry; we have royalty where we come from. We will treat them like we have always treated our kings and queens.”

Twilight let out a sigh of relief from hearing that they would treat them with respect. In all honesty, she wouldn’t be surprised considering the way Magress looked. It was kind of silly to doubt them right now when they’re being generally kind to her. But she did have something bugging her, “Okay so you know about the princesses here then but why bring it up?”

She looked towards the person who was speaking; in this case, it was Selena, “Could you tell us how long have your princesses been ruling over this land? We need to know s this is related to the topic we are speaking here.”

Twilight looked at them in bewilderment before deciding to answer anyway, “Well if you need to know badly, they’ve ruled this land for over one millennium ago during their time of youth.” Their eyes almost widened at her revelation as they looked at each other in their shock, “Is something wrong?”

“The princesses ruled that long? Are they immortals or like physical Gods of something?” The question came out of Lance but they all shared the same question regardless of who asked first.

She backed away a bit from the sudden question but regained her composure as she answered, “Yes, they are immortals, well specifically their kind of race is and while I’m not so sure if I could call them Gods… they are physical representations of the Sun and Moon.”

She saw them blink twice just to be certain that they heard that right. Silence lasted for about a few minutes before they spoke, “That… is actually a bit tame if I think about it hard enough.”

Twilight gaped a bit before she responded back to that, “Tame?! How is being able to move them with their magic tame to what you guys have?! I mean they not only represent them but repeating this, they can move the Sun and Moon here! Just how are they tame?!”

Eze raised his hands and looked at his hand first before looking back at her, “Let me see here, we faced a God of freaking creation…” He raised his index finger first representing one of many gods that well possibly exceed Celestia and Luna. Twilight notably shrunk under hearing that they faced someone who was a Creator. The thunder hero raised his middle finger next as he put his left index finger on it, “A God who was basically a manipulative bi--”

Before he got the chance to say the word in question, his head was lurched forward by a hand that smacked behind his head. Said hand was from Selena who was not at all happy, “Eze, no usage of those words in front of Twilight!”

The thunder hero was clutching his head from the hard slap to the head, “Ouch Selena… when were you able to hit hard with just a slap to the head?” He recoiled as the ice hero raised a hand to the air before slapping him on the face.

Twilight just watched the scene in confusion as to what she stopped Eze for. Just what word was he about to say that needed Selena to do that? She was caught way off guard by all of what was happening in front of her. Eventually, she decided to change the topic at hoof, “Well, I… guess I can see why you’d think the princesses are… tame.” She ended up having to mutter that word out as she found it very hard to believe even with what these six faced against.

“Well, we are not here to talk about their strength anyway. Let us get back on topic, so you said that they managed to rule over this land for a millennium?” Vargas saw the bearer of magic nodding to his question, “Okay then, were there any important conflicts in mind during the one thousand year rule?”

Twilight put a hoof on her chin trying to recall anything from her knowledge, “Well besides Discord and Princess Celestia having to face against Luna…” She looked at them noticing them looking a bit more downcast, “Did I hit upon a bad time in our history or something?”

They all shook their heads, momentarily recovering from that, “No not really, it’s just the idea of two siblings fighting over each other despite having such a good life with each other? It’s a painful thought for all of us.” Twilight agreed with their thoughts on it as well. The atmosphere returned back to its original roots as the conversation continued, “So after all of that, I’m to assume that it was a thousand years of relative peace? No conflicts throughout its history or anything of the sorts?” The light hero asked hoping to see if there was more to it. There was no way that this land was able to keep up with no conflicts for that long.

“Well I’m not sure as the rest from then on out was not mention in history books but according to Princess Celestia, it was relative peace throughout it all. Why, is that a bad thing? It should be a good thing to have everlasting peace right?” They all shook their heads causing Twilight to be baffled about the idea of long-lived peace being a bad thing, “But why? Don’t you all fight for peace in the long run?”

They all looked at each other and shared her thoughts about fighting for peace. But even then, they knew it better than the ponies here did. If Celestia was keeping this peace up for so long without any sign of conflict, it was bound to be this land’s downfall as they would be woefully unprepared to face a dangerous threat head on. Vargas stepped up and continued the conversation, “Yes, it was and still is our main goal in the long run. But even then, we know that utopias like this land will not last because no matter what, there will always be conflicts.”

Selena came after the fire hero finished his part, “Even if one were to remove the source of the battles ahead, it would only delay more bloodshed. No land can live in everlasting peace for so long which is something all of us learned a long time ago. Delaying a conflict is possible, but outright removing the threat? Next to impossible no matter how much effort was put.”

Twilight turned to the next in line of speaking their thoughts. Lance spoke next for them, “What the two princesses do is noble but pointless because in the end, Equestria will have to face threats worse than the last. You cannot hope to avoid any sign of conflict at all.”

Twilight was about to object to them until she was cut off by Eze, “Don’t try to deny it, in fact you don’t even know how to deny it because all of you have lived in peace for so long, you haven’t even learned how to fight back properly. The only reason that you had almost little to no conflict was because of divine intervention or those little trinkets you girls wear. You know as hopefully as they do that they can’t keep on protecting their citizens for long. The citizens need to learn how to retaliate back and hard too if they ever face something they can handle.”

The bearer of magic was left stunned at all this brutal yet understandable knowledge to her. But even then, what they are saying still did not answer how they were they able to treat what happened like it was normal for them. Only firmly telling her about how conflicts will always come no matter how much you try to prevent it. That was somewhat understandable to her enough, but it was not the answer, “But all this doesn’t make sense. This doesn’t answer how you were able to treat what happened yesterday like normal.”

“That is because you never were a fighter to begin with when you took up the princesses’ mantle, only a student craving for more knowledge to seek.” Twilight turned to see Atro speaking, his eyes showing the familiarity with the subject at hoof, “Am I wrong to assume that?”

“No not really…” Twilight lowered her head finally conceding to the fact that she may never know about this in her lifetime. But there was at least one thing she can ask, “But… how long have all of you been fighting? Can you at least answer that?”

The question was indeed answered by Magress though their answer came as a shock to her, “Everyday Twilight Sparkle, everyday.” She looked towards them all, a shocked expression etched on her face from the revelation.

“Every…” Twilight was stuttering her words as the revelation was hitting her hard, “E-everyday? A-are you sure about… that? I-I find that unbelievably difficult to fully grasp.”

Vargas sighed as he shook head. Twilight seeming lost all feeling t her hind legs as she flopped to the ground in a sitting position trying to absorb this, “The reason you wouldn’t understand is that you are not a fighter nor have been through what we’ve underwent. Throughout our lives, we were always cautious because in the end, you never know when today may be your last day to live.”

Twilight suddenly connected the dots quickly. From the very beginning when they first appeared to this world, they were heavily injured almost to as Celestia put it, were at death’s throes. By the idea that they continued to fight for so long led to only one conclusion as to why they were like that, They were already dying or possibly have died in their world… She looked at the six of them as she envisioned their last moments in their world. This caused her to reach out for Vargas’s face and put a hoof on it, “I am so sorry that you all had to go through that… even if I can’t understand how you handle serious situations like normal, I can tell that all six of you did not deserve all of what troubled your lives.”

A smile formed on all of them. Vargas grabbed Twilight’s right hoof and lowered it down as he put his left hand on it, “It is alright, all we care about is that as long as civilization continues on with or without us back home and thrives once again, our deaths in our home world would have not been in vain.” The others put their hands on top of Vargas’s left hand and looked at her with care, “All of us wish that for our world.”

Twilight’s smile brightens as she pounced onto to Vargas and hugged him tightly. The fire hero initially was a bit shocked at the sudden embrace but went with as he patted her on the back. His companions joined in and put a hand on her back as well. Eze although initially ruined the moment by saying, “Well today sure as hell beats yesterday!” They all ended up laughing with each other at the sudden outburst from their fellow idiot.