Celestia watched the horizon with relief as the moon lowered over the hills, the lowering of the moon telling her that Mr. Bubbles had not run his drill through her sister and that all had gone according to plan. With a burst of her magic, she began to raise the sun, only stopping once it had built up enough momentum to continue through the sky on its own.

"I am glad to see that you survived the night," Celestia began as she looked behind her, having heard her sister's wing beats. But much to Celestia's surprise, she found that Luna eyes were red and swollen, not to mention that she looked to be in a bit of shock. "Luna! Did something happen?" Celestia asked as she raced over to her sister. "Did the monster do something to you?"

"It is what he failed to do," Luna replied in a whisper as she looked out across the land, shaking her head as she did so. "Sister, we have been so wrong about Mr. Bubbles, so wrong."

"What do you mean?" Celestia asked her, wondering what Luna could mean. Luna stayed quiet for a few moments before she turned back to her sister, not sure how to tell her.

"I went inside his mind. And I saw the horror's that he had to face," she whispered. Celestia draped a wing over Luna and helped her inside, sitting her down in front of her tea stand as she poured a drink for both of them.

"Can you tell me what you saw?" Celestia asked her.

"I can try," Luna responded as she took a drink. "But first I must show you the little sister. Only then can you understand Bubbles."

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Ditzy got up that morning around the crack of dawn, silently walking down the stairs as best she could without trying to ditz up. She knew that what she was doing was foolish, but she had to see her daughter safe. She descended to the bottom of the stairs and looked around the corner, only to find to her frustration eight pairs of yellow eyes looking at her.

"So the watchful guardian never sleeps, huh?" she muttered angrily as she walked by Mr. Bubbles, who watched her every step of the way. She could still see her daughter wrapped up in his arms, sleeping peacefully under his protection. "I don't know why you find such comfort in him Dinky, but he's dangerous. Why can't you see that?" A letter from Celestia rested on the table and after said read it she left it there for Dinky to read. She went to the stove and began to cook breakfast, causing her daughter to wake up a few minutes later sniffing the air.

"Is it morning already?" she asked as she hopped off of Bubbles and ran to the kitchen. Mr. Bubbles stood up to follow her, barely missing one of the support beams as he did so. Dinky tried to run over to her mother, but Mr. Bubbles let out a moan and pulled her away from Ditzy, causing the gray mare to scowl behind his back. "Okay Mr. B., we really need to get you over this whole keeping me away from others thing," Dinky said with a growl as she began walking back to her mother, sticking out a hoof at Mr. Bubbles when he tried to stop her. "No. She is my friend. Do. You. Get. That? Friend?" She hugged her mom’s leg as she said this all the while glaring at Mr. Bubbles, daring him to make a move. His eyes went red as she did this and he took a step forward...before stopping and standing still. Why would his little sister call this...thing a friend? It wouldn't protect her or care for her like he would. She'd see.

"Can't believe that worked," Dinky muttered as she looked into Bubbles still red eyes, wondering why he hadn't tried anything. Mr. Bubbles was wondering that same thing himself, but this time was different from the others. He could feel the desire to attack the thief that tried to steal his little sister...but he was also vaguely aware that he wasn't the one doing the thinking entirely. It felt almost like something else was compelling him to attack and he didn't like it. Plus, he hated to see his little sister cry and if she wanted to hug the strange thing, he wouldn't stop her...yet.

"Um, Mr. Bubbles, you okay?" Dinky asked as she walked over to him and poked his leg, snapping him out of it and turning his eyes yellow as he looked down at her with a friendly moan. He then looked up at Ditzy with suspicion, wondering a bit why she hadn't taken the little sister while he had been distracted. Why? "Well, now that that's out of the way, let's have some food." Dinky sat down with a smile, laughing out loud when Mr. Bubbles tried to sit down and shattered the chair under his weight. He made no signs of being annoyed though as Ditzy got her daughter her food.

"So then Dinky, what do you have planned for today?" Ditzy asked, watching Bubbles more than her daughter. "I hope you don't plan on going to school with him around?"

"No way...although I would like Tiara to meet him," she said with a bit of evil laughter as she rubbed her hooves together, stopping only when he mother glared at her. "Just a joke mother, I wouldn't do that to anypony."

"Good," Ditzy said with a sigh as she looked at the time.

"Need to go to work?" Dinky asked.

"Yes, but I'm afraid to leave you alone with him," she said as she looked at Mr. Bubbles who was looking at Dinky's cereal. "I can miss a day of work and be fine." Dinky narrowed her eye at her mom, before shaking her head.

"You're a bad liar, you know that?" she said with a smile. "We can't afford to miss a day of work, can we?" Ditzy shook her head with a sigh before looking back to Bubbles. "Don't worry mom, I'll take him out of town so that he's far away from the ponies. You can trust me." Ditzy looked hesitant for a moment before Dinky hopped out of her chair and ran to the door as she grabbed a small doll, the Big Daddy following her out of the room, breaking the recently repaired door once again. "By mom, see you after work."

Ditzy watched them go sadly, before she slowly walked over to her mail bag and hat, putting them both on as she walked out of the hole in the side of her house. Dinky took Mr. Bubbles out of Ponyville, making sure to take the long way around to avoid others. She hadn't told her mom, but today she was going to try and visit a place that her mother had told her not to.

"Don't worry Mr. Bubbles, I'm sure we'll be fine as long as you're with me," she said to him as she let him lift her onto his head, pointing him in the direction that she wanted him to go. The two of them headed into the Everfree forest, where most ponies seemed afraid to enter with go reason. "I suppose you should know why I want to go in here," she began to say as they walked, Bubbles saying nothing. "My mom said that back when she was pregnant with me, she and daddy went to Canterlot one day to see the sights. But during that time there was a terrible storm that was knocking pegasi out of the air left and right. And she got caught up in the storm and was flung to Everfree."

Mr. Bubbles said nothing, but he slightly turned his body to the side as he heard something moving in the forest.

"So daddy flew down there to try and save her, but she had been cornered by a pack of Timberwolves," Dinky said softly as tears began to form at this point. "He gave her time to escape, but...he didn't make it out of the forest alive. I never even got to see him." Mr. Bubble's eyes flashed yellow as he looked into the forest, hearing what he thought was faint laughter. "So there is a grave in the Ponyville Cemetery, but this is where he died. Right up here." The two of them walked out of the forest at this point into a clearing where a single stone stuck out of the ground, meaning nothing to Mr. Bubbles but meaning the world to Dinky.

"Hey dad, it's me again," she said softly as she pulled out a raggedy doll, looking at it with tear stained eyes. "I know that mom and I are supposed to visit your grave tomorrow, but I just had to see you today. I still have the doll you were going to give me when I was born, even though it needs some patches...we both miss you. Especially mom. I can hear her crying to herself at night when she thinks I'm asleep."

Mr. Bubbles had been looking around while she had been speaking and thought that he had seen yellow eyes off in the distance. His own eyes flashed yellow and he moved closer to Dinky.

"I made a new friend...of sorts," she said before motioning Bubbles. "He's really odd, but I think he cares about me deep down. He's very protective though and we have to be careful not to set him off. He also...killed some ponies the other day, but I'm not even sure he knows he did a bad thing. I don't even know if he can tell right from wrong. But I want to help him to learn, because he's the last of his race. I know it's weird, but I feel like I need to help him. That's all for now, I’ll talk to you more tomorrow." She placed a flower at the stone before turning away, gasping at what she saw.

'So you can see me. Darn, I still can't get this spell to work,' a silver mare growled to herself as she flickered, vanishing for a moment before reappearing. Dinky looked at the weird markings on her body to her flowing silver mane with awe, before a loud roar caused her to yelp and a wall of metal ran past her with its drill at full power. 'Still angry I see,' the silver mare muttered as she vanished, causing Mr. Bubbles to skid to a stop as he looked around for her. A spell of silver struck him in the back and knocked him to the ground, causing him to roar with rage as he got back up.

"Wait, what are you doing?" Dinky asked the silver mare, who was glowing with power as three spheres of silver floated around her.

'I warned him if he dared to kill any of the ponies when he got here that he would answer to me,' she said before shooting a beam of silver into him. 'And it time to answer for what he did.'

"Wait a minute!" Dinky yelled as she threw herself between the two, stopping the silver mare's assault for the moment. "I know what he did was wrong, but he did it to protect me!" The silver mare seemed taken aback by this news.

'Explain,' she eventually said.

"My mom and I were being bullied by some of the pegasi from Cloudsdale. One of them kicked me into a crate and I lost consciousness," Dinky explained, the silver mare already knowing how this story would end. "But according to my mom, Mr. Bubbles came charging out the moment that I had been hurt and attacked those responsible...then he took me to safety." The silver mare stopped for a moment and thought about what the young one had said. She despised watching ponies die, but according to this one Bubbles had killed for a noble reason. Plus...

'Very well, I will cease my attack for now,' she said before throwing up a barrier to deflect the ice that had been shot her way by the Big Daddy. Dinky did her best to stop the rampaging beast while the silver mare tried to get her spell to work again.

"Um, why are you trying to become invisible so much?" Dinky eventually asked her once Bubbles had calmed down to the point where his eyes were yellow.

'Because for my mission it is best that I remain in the shadows, where nopony can see me,' she said before vanishing again, only to reappear a few feet from them.

"Then why don't you wear a hood? That's what all ponies who don't want to be seen wear," Dinky suggested. The silver mare stopped for a moment before chuckling to herself.

'A hood, huh? That idea never crossed my mind. Not that it would work for me, since I am clearly identifiable even with a hood, but thank you for the suggestion.'

"Also, giving ponies’ advice would be a lot easier if they can actually see you. I don't think that a voice out of nowhere is the best way to help," Dinky suggested. The mare looked at the ground for a moment before she nodded her head.

'I guess I can do it that way, but mother always said that a voice out of nowhere was how it was done in the stories,' the silver mare muttered. 'Now I suggest that you return home for the day and have fun,' she said before vanishing in a flash of silver, leaving the two alone.

"Come on Mr. B., let's go home," Dinky eventually said, letting Mr. Bubbles pick her up onto his shoulders as the two began to leave the forest.

'Dinky.' Dinky turned around quickly on Mr. Bubble’s head, certain that she had heard somepony say her name. But since she couldn't see anypony, she shrugged her shoulders and let the Mr. Bubbles take her home.

'Dinky.'

===K>

"...I still cannot believe it to be true," Celestia said with a sickened look in her face as the last of the memories vanished from her mind, leaving both her and her sister in a disturbed state. "How could the humans have sunk so far as to go after children? It...It is nothing like what I have read in the books at all."

"Yet his memories do not lie," Luna said as she took another sip of tea. "He was the defender of a little girl back when he lived with the humans, yet they attacked him for her relentlessly...until one of them finally managed to bring him down."

"And that would explain his behavior whenever another tried to get close to Dinky," Celestia muttered as she stood up and looked out the window towards the land below. "Given his past experience with humans, it's no surprise that he views all who get close to her as an enemy."

"But there is only one thing that I wonder about," Luna muttered as she walked beside her sister to look over the land. "He was experimented on heavily to become the monster we see today. What I want to know is did they do something to his brain to make him act and think this way."

"What are you suggesting?" Celestia asked. Luna lowered her head for a moment before she decided to answer.

"I am suggesting that he is only looking after Dinky because it is all he knows, not that he truly feels anything for her."