Canterlot medical wing

Twilight and Kion had got to the medical wing and Twilight helped Kion out of his pants and shoes, Kion still felt pain in his chest and left thigh as he lie down on the hospital bed while Twilight took a look at his wounds and saw that he got hit multiple magic beams but the most severe were the wounds that Zira made.

"Why?" Twilight asked with a few tears in her eyes "Why do you push yourself like this?"

"I'm not a coward, Twily." Kion said, using Twilight's childhood nickname "And fights like this are the reason why I keep pushing myself."

"You risked yourself just to protect me and my friends. Is it true that all of this and protecting Equestria is a clear sign that you like me?" Twilight asked.

"You're the one who hangs out with Cupid Cadence, I remembered that she gave us an answer. But there's more to that as well, I've seen too many innocent blood being shed right in front of me. I wasn't gonna let you and your friends get added to that list." Kion said as Twilight grabbed a wet towel to clean the blood off of him.

"(Giggles) Mom was right, you are cute." Twilight said while she wipe the tears out of her eyes with her right arm, then sighed a bit "What you did back there was really brave of you, but it was still reckless of you to put yourself in harm's way like that. You could've gotten yourself killed."

"Wouldn't be the first time." Kion replied nonchalantly which caused Twilight to shutter a bit in worry.

"Kion..." Twilight said with worry.

"Its a curse that plagues me for my entire life. If I don't take serious action, I could lose those that I care about." Kion said with a grim tone.

"You must've been through a lot." Twilight said which Kion nodded "I do have a confession to make, I also like you as well." Twilight said as she grabbed Kion's cheeks and kissed him on the lips, Kion was surprised at first but he closed his eyes and relaxed himself as the pain was getting numb due to the kiss until Twilight broke from it.

"Twilight?" Kion said with a blush.

"You want me to stop, sweetie?" Twilight asked to which Kion shook his head in response, then she continued kissing him on the lips for about two minutes.

Then Celestia, the two hyenas, and all of Twilight's family members and friends came into the room and found Twilight making out with Kion right in front of them, everyone except Cadence was shocked at this, Shining Armor on the other hand was really mad at the scene, Twilight saw everyone and blushed furiously as she broke from the kiss.

"What is your problem, do you get your rocks off by kissing random mares?!" Shining Armor said in anger.

"No, asshole. Twilight admitted that she likes me and I accepted the kiss that she gave me." Kion said in annoyance.

"You think I'm stupid?" Shining Armor said "I saw you kissing my sister right as we got into the room, and she's not some exotic chaser you can get your hands on, face it, cub, you're not her type, she only likes ponies!"

Kion was now mad at Shining Armor for acting all control freak on Twilight's life and he was about to put a stop to this.

"What the fuck makes you think you can control Twilight's life?!" Kion said in anger.

"Kion--" Jasiri tried to say but was interrupted by Cadence and Janja who grabbed Jasiri's shoulder and shook their heads.

"You really think that Twilight should date some random pony just because they're a pony and because you fucking said so?" Kion said in annoyance "Let's get one thing straight, bitch boy, I don't give a rat's ass of rules of not dating other species, I care about the personality of the individual, and I just save Twilight's life this recently! I had a rotten feeling about you ever since you arrived here and what I found out about you is that you're nothing but a spoiled, sibling controlling, racist, faggot, loser who doesn't deserve anything that was giving to you!" Kion said in disgust, then he started to to feel the pain coming back to him again.

"Somepony, get a first aid kit!" Twilight begged as she tried to aid Kion.

"I wonder what would happen if I do this." Shining Armor said as he pushed two fingers on Kion's leg wound, Kion screamed in pain as he lashed out at Shining Armor with his retractable claws, clawing out some of the skin off of Shining Armor's arm in the process.

"Aahh, my arm!" Shining Armor shouted in pain.

"I'm sorry, but maybe that wouldn't happen if you didn't fuck around with my wounds and stopped being an asshole, not even Janja would do something like that!" Kion shouted in pain.

"He's not wrong, even though I can act like a dick, I never fuck around with somebody's wounds." Janja said in agreement, Fluttershy and Velvet went to where the first aid kits were and grabbed them.

"Out, now!" Cadence said as she grabbed Shining Armor by the ear.

"Don't forget to patch up Shining's arm, dear." Velvet said as she used her left arm to give Cadence one of the first aid kits and used the other arm to carry Flurry Heart.

"Rarity, can you find where the first aid sprays are?" Twilight asked as she grabbed a plastic bar for Kion to bite on "I need something to disinfect the wounds."

"I'll find them, darling." Rarity said as she looked for the first aid sprays.

"Applejack, Rainbow Dash, I need you two to hold Kion down so that I can get an accurate spray." Twilight said.

"Sure thing, Twi." Applejack said.

"Let me help, Kion's a lot stronger than you think." Jasiri said.

"I agree with your boyfriend because even though he acts like a jerk, I see he has standards and what Shining Armor did to Kion's wounds was not cool." Rainbow Dash said to Jasiri.

"Janja's not my boyfriend, he's far from it." Jasiri said.

"We also need check on his back, I think he also has been thrown into the ground and I think he could use some pain medication to relieve it." Twilight said "Kion, I'm sorry about my brother's behavior I don't know what's gotten into him."

"It's not your fault, Twilight." Kion said.

"I got the first aid spray, darling." Rarity said as she gave Twilight the first aid spray.

"Thanks, Rarity." Twilight said "Okay, Kion, I know that this is gonna hurt but I need to disinfect all of your wounds before I did you up, especially the magical attack one's, okay?"

"Do what you need to do." Kion said before Twilight put the plastic bar in his mouth sideways.

"Okay, on three, one, two, three." Twilight said as she started spraying on Kion's chest wounds including the magical burn wounds, Kion was growling in pain and biting down on the plastic bar as Applejack and Rainbow Dash tried to hold him down but thanks to Jasiri's help, they managed to keep him steady as Twilight kept on spraying him, after she's done, she started spraying on his leg wound, Kion felt like he was in hell as the excruciating pain was too much that hot tears were coming out.

Manehattan, room of a random building

The Legion of Doom were discussing a plan on how to separate the lion cub from the powerful sword, they disguise themselves as regular ponies to blend in and find a building to set up their headquarters.

"It's impossible!" Chrysalis said "We can't conquer Equestria with that kitten running around."

"We can try to sneak in and grab the sword like we did with the books." Cozy Glow said.

"The sword might be heavily guarded." Tirek said.

"Then what are we gonna do now?"Cozy Glow asked.

"I might have a solution." a sadistic female voice said, the three villains turned around and saw Zira with a bag of decapitated pony heads, Cozy Glow almost vomited at the sight of the severed heads.

"You again, how did you find us?" Chrysalis asked.

"Your bug smell was easy to track." Zira answered.

"Bug smell, how dare you?!" Chrysalis said in anger.

"Don't challenge her, Chrysalis, those heads are real." Cozy Glow warned.

"Of course they're real, I just killed a few sheep on the way here." Zira said

"You said that you have a solution, what is it?" Tirek asked.

"The cub that caused you to run away is Kiongozi Hasnuu, he's a skilled hunter and fighter, he can smell the training from his opponents a mile away but I have the knowledge to take him down." Zira answered.

"Me, run away?" Chrysalis said "The last time I check is that you threw me out to the forest!"

"The reason why I threw you is because you were stealing my fight, that cub is mine to fight and no one except me is going to fight him." Zira said.

"So, how are we gonna take him down?" Cozy Glow asked.

"Simple, you two draw in the sheep by attacking the entire population of the town they ridiculously called Ponyville and if you have to kill them so be it, then when Kiongozi arrives with the sheep, I'll grab him, bring him to this location, and I'll chain him up in the process." Zira answered

"Why are you doing this, what's in it for you?" Chrysalis asked, Zira turned to Chrysalis and started walking towards her, Tirek and Cozy Glow were terrified at what Zira was gonna do.

"You want to know why I'm doing this?" Zira asked "It's because that Kion was fucking up my plans to get revenge on his father, his father, the now current king of the Pride Lands killed a close friend of mine, so, it's personal to me." she said as she gently dragged her claw on Chrysalis' cheek.

"You want to conquer this land?" Zira asked to which the three villains nodded "Then play by my rules and you'll get what you desire."

"You give your word on it?" Cozy Glow asked.

"Yes, I do." Zira answered.

"You didn't give us your name." Tirek said.

"Zira Aslan, the embodiment of hate and murder." Zira said as she walked out of the room.

Canterlot medical wing.

Twilight and Luna were patching Kion's wounds up with bandage wraps, Twilight managed to disinfect the wounds with the first aid spray and used a healing spell to seal his wounds a bit but said wounds still hurt, now Twilight was making sure that Kion was now patched up the rest of the mares and Spike were shocked at the bite mark that Kion left on the plastic bar.

"Okay, I think that should be enough for now." Twilight said as she secured the ending of the wrap on his chest.

"I'm gonna go check on your brother, dear, see if he's doing alright." Velvet said as she got out of the room.

"You feeling alright, sugarcube?" Applejack asked.

"I'm fine, I just need to relax that's all." Kion answered as he got off the hospital bed.

"Dude, you took a beating from a bunch of bad guys with only Celestia's sword and your wits, you could've been killed by them!" Rainbow Dash said in shock.

"Rainbow Dash is right, Kion, what were you thinking of going head-to-head with all of those villains?" Celestia asked.

"I did what I had to be done. And if it weren't for me, your head would have been in Zira's bag by now, Celestia. Or did you forget about that too quickly?" Kion answered nonchalantly.

"Zira?" Celestia and and the main 5 asked

"The lioness that you were fighting is Zira Aslan, she's a serial killer that my father fought." Kion answered.

"How was she able to nearly defeat us?" Pinkie asked.

"The powers that she got was from a living goop called the bio syn, it's a symbiotic substance that can give anyone super strength, speed, and endurance, the syn that she has is a rare breed that gives all the powers that I've listed and gives her the ability to shapeshift and pull herself back together." Kion answered as he put on his pants and shoes.

"And how do you know about this?" Celestia asked.

"Discord told me. He wanted to keep the syn a secret, from you apparently." Kion answered, then he started to walk to the door and opened it.

"Kion, where are you going?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, you need to get some rest, silly." Pinkie said.

"I'm going outside. I need to clear my head." Kion answered as he got out of the room.

"Let me go talk to him. I know him to the point that I can understand him a lot more." Jasiri said as she followed Kion.

"Alright, my little ponies, I'm putting you in charge of taking care of Kion and the two hyenas and show them the magic of friendship, I'll get you some tickets to Ponyville." Celestia said.

"Excuse me for a second." Janja said as he got out of the door and started laughing at what Celestia said.

"Is anypony getting the idea that Janja's gonna be tough to teach?" Spike asked.

"I like Janjy, he's funny!" Pinkie said happily.

"You gonna be okay, Twilight?" Night Light asked.

"I'll be fine, Dad, I can handle them and besides, we're about one month away from Heartswarming." Twilight answered.

"Then your mother and I will see you next month." Night Light said as he hugged his daughter.

"Same here, Dad, tell Mom I said bye." Twilight said as she returned the hug, then she gathered her friends and left the room.

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