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Cleared to Engage

by SomeAsian2347

Chapter 8

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Act 1-8
Ah, fuck it

Andrew had finally stopped running, he kept on running until there was no environment, just a white, barren landscape. He was still stuck in his mind as because his physical embodiment was still in stone, and he would probably stay that way for a while. Yet, he felt like there was a way to get free, as he was innocent, and the Elements of Harmony are meant to be good.

"Andrew, you have to follow the steps..." He heard a distant voice say, he quickly whipped around and saw her. Carmine, his now deceased fiance.

"Carmine? What steps? What are you talking about?" He questioned.

"Step One: Acceptance. You have to let go of me and your family's deaths." Andrew sobbed for a bit.

"If I let you go I'll never see you guys again."

"I'll always be with you, Andrew. You have to follow the steps, if you want to return to the land of the living." Andrew then took a deep breath, and let it out slowly. He then felt a calm, cool feeling rush over him, and all stress was gone.

"Step Two: Walk into the dark tunnel." A giant tunnel opened up, and Andrew was hesitant, but he slowly started to walk into the cave.

It was dark and moist, but for the most part it was moist, the worst part about being in a cave. Andrew avoided touching the walls as he kept on walking, not knowing where he was going, just aimlessly wandering through the dark cave.


Andrew has been gone for a few weeks now, and everything has mostly returned to normal. Though Twilight and her friends still seemed distraught about Andrew turning to stone, they slowly but surely returned to their normal lives.


Helena was left inside of the Police Department, doing paperwork for a request for a new recruit. Since Andrew was gone she was left in charge, with her being the next highest in rank and all. Just then there was a knock on the door, she looked up and opened the door, revealing Twilight.

"Hey Twilight, is something wrong?" Helena said in her natural English accent.

"No, I just wanted to stop by to check on everypony." She said, Helena could sense the depression in her speech.

"It's 'everyone' Twilight, we're not ponies." Helena corrected, and Twilight nodded.

"Anyways, we're doing fine." Helena gestured her to sit down, and so she did, with Helena sitting next to her.

"I'm sorry about Andrew. I didn't want to shoot him but-" Twilight was interrupted.

"It's okay Twilight. No one could've expected Discord to be so violent. Either that or Andrew pissed him off, but that's not the point. Andrew did it for us, but sadly to say he was pretty young, and childish to say the least." Helena laughed, Twilight sniffled a bit before speaking up.

"About what he said, 'another loner.' What did he mean?" Twilight looked up to Helena, and she closed her eyes for a moment, and sighed before explaining.

"Listen Twi, Andrew isn't your average human. His family was killed, he has no uncles, or aunts, nor cousins either. His grandparents passed away when he was but a child, and his family was killed in a terrorist attack. He had nobody to look up to, no one to talk to, all for a select few. I knew him since childhood, and he's been alone all his life. All of that changed when he was recruited to The Unit, where he met Jhon, Nick, and I. We've been inseparable ever since that day, and we've done the most suicidal things up until this point. Now, he thinks he has a new family, which is us, he thinks he can make things right." Helena was tearing up at this point, and so was Twilight.

"I never would have guessed." Twilight sobbed, and almost started to cry into Helena's side. Helena thought quickly to try and not get herself involved at this sappy moment, she did not want to emotionally scar Twilight either, so she came up with an idea that would cheer her up.

"Anyways, I have a few things to organize, would you like to help out?" Helena tried to perk her up, and Twilight regained her self conscience just like that.

"Would I?!" She said cheerily. Helena gestured her to follow her into office as the door shut behind, silhouettes of papers flying everywhere.

"So, what happens now? Now that Andrew's gone what are you going to do?" Twilight asked, still a bit saddened of the events that had happened earlier.

"We still got a town to protect, I don't know about you, but, some crazy things happen here from what I can tell." Helena shrugged. Twilight nodded as she set another organized stack of papers and folders into the filing cabinet.


Andrew was still wandering aimlessly into the dark tunnel, but he eventually noticed that he was inside of his own mind, he could do what he wanted. He thought about Dead Space, where he could use a locator device, as well as Kinesis and Stasis to know where he was going. Andrew did a thing where his left hand looked like he was typing, and a blue line aimed straight forward showed up on the ground. He followed the line as he kept checking it every so often, until he saw light.

"Carmine? Where are you?" Andrew asked, she then spoke out of the void of nothingness, no apparition, just the voice.

"Step Three: Face Them." She said, and Andrew looked forward, where his family were standing, all covered in blood and stained red.

Andrew gulped as he made his way towards his family, and they stared him down as he spoke hesitantly. He cleared his throat and they waited for a response.

"I'm sorry. I never meant to leave you, and I never expected the Vegas Incident to occur. I'm sorry I wished you away after our fight, and I loved you guys, so much." Andrew started to cry as his mother, father, older brother, and younger sister were no longer bloody and stained red.

"We forgive you Andrew... Now, time to go back to the land of the living." Andrew's father said.

"But what about you guys? What's gonna happen?"

"Andrew, if you didn't already know we're in your mind. We'll always be here for you, even when you need it most." His mother said.

"How am I to get out? I was turned to stone and can't be broken out unless those Element thingies are used." Andrew questioned. His family made a group huddle as they started to whisper.

"Andrew, there's something you should know." His father started.

"What is it?" He asked.

"You will know in due time, but for now... goodbye." His little sister said as she poked Andrew's forehead, and everything faded to black.


Luna was up that night stargazing, proud of her work and accomplishments. She decided to take a break and eat a midnight snack. She came back to her balcony with a sandwich half and looked down at the garden. She took a brief pan of the environment until she looked into her telescope once again. She then spit out some of her sandwich as she looked down into the gardens, where there was crumbled at the foot of the Discord statue. She quickly flew down and checked the statue out, Discord was still there, but Andrew was on the floor, laying on his back.

"Oh man, my ass hurts." He said as he rubbed his ass, he quickly got up and there he and Luna met eye contact.

"We see thou hast been released!" Luna was excited as she grabbed Drew in her telekinetic grip and started to hug him to death.

"It's good to see you too, Luna." Andrew said as he chuckled. Just as he said that he blacked out, and Luna was left in shock.

"Andrew Hartfield? Is thou alright?" Luna asked, and Andrew slowly replied, regaining some of his consciousness.

"I'll be alright, I just need some food. I'm starving." He then went limp on the ground, Luna rolled her eyes as she called one of her guards.

"Sergeant Night Wave! Please take this to the infirmary, thou hast needing some food and sleep." Luna ordered, Sergeant Night Wave saluted as he carried Andrew on his back flying to the infirmary while balancing the human he was carrying.

"First day working the Garden shift and I'm stuck carrying a smelly human." The Sergeant muttered.

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