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I have to warn you guys this chapter will be a little grim.

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Chapter 9: Jessica.

The day after the last chapter…

Blade and Sora were explaining how they'd gotten to Equestria. Blade had been fighting a dragon in White Acropolis when suddenly there had been this huge explosion and he'd found himself underneath Cloudsdale, and Sora had been training when suddenly there had been a huge flash of white and he'd just popped up near The Forest.

"Tails, are you seeing something in common with all these appearances?" Sonic asked. The fox nodded.

"Yes, everyone keeps describing what happened to us when I activated the portal. There is a 3.1415926535897932384626433832-etcetera percent chance that this was all because of one simple computer accident. I think that someone messed with my computer so it would make us come here to Equestria, then they would have to copy the energy somehow and use it to send Blade and Sora here. Since Shadow is already here there's only one other person who can manipulate chaos energy like that. Someone who we have already been warned about." He said, and everyone looked to Quintus, who was still a little confused on how Tails had memorized that much of pi, didn't notice.

"What? Oh, are you talking about how one of the only few names I could remember was Mephiles the Dark?" Quintus asked, and Gold tensed up. He hadn't been told that.

"What's with him?" Sora asked, seeing Gold. "I mean, all of us hate Mephiles and wish he'd never come into existence, but Gold seems a little… spooked." He added.

"My father was killed by that demon." Gold said, anger and sadness rising.

"Oh. Sorry about that." Sora apologized.

Quintus, meanwhile, felt something familiar with those words. 'Killed…Dark…Loved one…' He thought, for those were the topics of the conversation, but it seemed like they meant more for Quintus.

Suddenly he felt excruciating pain in his forehead, and he fell to the ground, memories returning.

"What's wrong with him?" Tails asked franticly.

"He's getting painful memories back. I'd guess he's remembering Jessica…" Joe said, looking at his friend in pain.

"Jessica?" Everyone asked.

"Allow me to explain. In the first few months after Quintus's first waking moments, he got to know a girl named Jessica…" Joe started.

In Quintus's mind…

(Flashback Time!)

(Imagine everything being narrated by Joe as it happens in Quintus's head)

Quintus was sitting up for the first time in his life, and he noticed a young girl, probably 12, watching him from the other end of the room. She smiled at him. After a moment, he smiled back. Then a group of scientists came in, blocking her from view, and the scientists started asking him questions and checking his pulse and such.

Time skip, three weeks… Quintus was practicing his Eon usage skills when suddenly he saw the girl from before. She waved at him, and Quintus was about to wave back, but then one of the flying disks hit him when he wasn't watching, and she disappeared.

Time skip (again). Back to Quintus's room…

Quintus was resting on his bed when he heard a light knock on the door. Curious, he walked over to the door and opened it. There stood the girl from before again. She had mid-length hazel hair and caring, soft blue eyes.

"Hi. My name is Jessica." She said shyly. Quintus nodded. "The girl from before?" He asked, and she nodded. "Why were you watching me?" He asked.

"I noticed you didn't have any other friends, so I decided to come and meet you." She said, and Quintus looked confused. "Friend? What's that?" He asked, and Jessica looked shocked. "You're an Element of Harmony and you don't know what a friend is? Wow, Celestia would be upset." She said, and Quintus looked even more confused. "Who?" He asked.

Jessica looked absolutely surprised. "You don't know who Celestia is? What about… Ionia?" She asked. Quintus shook his head. "Arceus?" She asked. "Nope." "The goddess of Hyrule?" "Goddess of who?" "Chaos?" "Where?" "Light Gaia?" "Who now?" "The ancient star sprites?" "Uhhh…" "Not even The Alagaesian Eldunari or The Higher Fain?" "The What-what and the Higher what?" Quintus asked. Jessica looked ready to faint with shock.

"They're all the people who helped with your creation! How can you not even know their names!" She asked.

"Miss, I'm only twenty-two days old. Forgive me if I don't know who those individuals are." Quintus said.

"You're obviously old enough to use such sophisticated speech." Jessica said. Quintus was about to argue, but then he realized she was right, and he sighed.

"That's OK, though. I can teach you." Jessica said, and she dashed off.

A few minutes later, she came back with a stack of books, most of them with titles that began with 'History of…'

"Um, I don't know how to read, exactly." Quintus admitted after a moment.

"Really?" Jessica asked. "I'm supposed to be a weapon, apparently weapons don't need to read, so… no capability to do so." Quintus said, tapping his head.

"Well, I can teach you." Jessica said, and so began the process of learning the alphabet. It was silly, since Quintus was capable of doing extraordinary math, yet he could not read the word 'word'. After quite a bit of giggling and head scratching, Quintus was finally familiar with the alphabet.

Now came the hard part: Pronunciation. Quintus just couldn't remember j/g and s/c and 'th' and the like.

Eventually Jessica noticed the time. "Oh my look at the time! I have to go now, I will be back to help you some more tomorrow!" She said, and took off. Quintus looked at the pile of books on his bed, then at the clock.

"Well, I do not have Chaos channeling for another hour, I guess I could try to learn to read a bit more." He said, and went to work on reading.

Time skip. The next day…

Quintus was resting again. Aerial maneuvers with 100 lbs. of weight were hard.

He heard Jessica knock lightly on his door again, and he let her in. They repeated yesterday for the next week, and finally Quintus was fully able to read (Hey, he's a fast learner.).

"So are you ready to learn your history now?" Jessica asked. Quintus nodded, and they began to read 'History of Magics in Equestria'

Over the next few weeks, Jessica started helping Quintus with his training, too. She would rapidly throw target disks for him to hit with Chaos spears, Eon orbs, words from the Ancient Language, and sometimes just a bit of telekinesis.

Over time Quintus started to like the kind girl, and vice versa.

Then it happened. The Dark Ones found the base, and their presence started to destroy everything. Although once they saw Jessica and Quintus, they softened their deadly aura so they could destroy the girl themselves.

Quintus saw Jessica being lifted by some unseen force, and suddenly a bunch of dark arrows shot out of the black cloud that the Dark Ones usually appear as and went straight into Jessica.

Quintus dashed to catch her. As he looked into her dying eyes, she whispered, "Quintus. You have to stop them, before it's too late. It's…been… nice." And then she breathed her last breath and died, right there.

"No…" Quintus muttered, and his fur started darkening. His wings became leathery, and his eyes turned completely black with two small blood-red dots. That was the first time he'd ever gone dark.

(Flashback end)

Quintus woke up in a cold sweat. Now that he had that memory back, it would haunt him forever.

He noticed all the main characters (So far.) staring at him.

"Are you OK?" Fluttershy asked, and Quintus nodded.

"Was it her?" Joe asked, and Quintus nodded sadly.

Everyone looked down sadly, especially Shadow, who was remembering Maria at the moment.

Joe put a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Dude, if you want to talk about it, we can." He said, but Quintus shrugged it off. Then he walked a few feet away and opened his wings.

He gave one last look at everyone before taking off.

Sonic and Rainbow Dash were about to go after him but were stopped by Shadow and Twilight.

"Relax. He just needs a bit of time alone." Joe said, and the speedsters stopped struggling.

With Quintus, he was flying very quickly. Eventually a sonic boom could be heard over Equestria, and Quintus was flying faster than the speed of sound. After a while, he stopped in a clearing in the Everfree forest and just sat there.

He tried focusing on happy thoughts, but it just didn't work. Soon his fur started losing it's color, quickly becoming gray.

A single feather fell from his left wing, and then another, and another, and etc. Quintus was going into his depressive form. (If you read my profile page, you'll know that this is bad news. If not, then go read it!)

Back with the group, Blade asked, "Was it just me, or did his fur seem to be a shade of gray darker when he left?"

Joe looked up. "Was it? If it was, then that is very bad." He said, and Rarity answered, "Yes, he looks so good in yellow." After seeing a glare that meant this is serious. From Joe, she let him finish.

"Sometimes when too much sadness- not anger, but sadness- he starts to go into something called his depressive form. His fur and eyes start turning gray and the feathers on his wings start falling off. If he stays like that too long, he'll eventually die." He said, and everyone gasped.

"We're going to need to find him and cheer him up. I have about half of a plan for cheering him up, but we'll still need to find him." Joe said. "He took off towards the forest, so we'll have to split up to search. Send up a signal of some sort if you find him, and I'll get there quickly, and so should you, Pinkie. Your optimism is my plan." He explained. "Okie-Dokie-Lokie!" The pink pony said, and everyone split up to search for the Godhog.

After half an hour, it was Shadow that eventually found Quintus. He fired a Chaos Blast into the air and checked to see if Quintus had died or not. He hadn't died yet, but his heart rate was way slower than it should have been.

Despite the fact that Shadow highly disliked this guy, he decided to try and talk some sense into him.

"Pull yourself together man! I liked a girl once. Her name was Maria. She was my only friend up on the Ark where I was created. Then one day she was killed, too. Shot in the back. I wasn't able to do anything at all. But do you see me dying because of that memory? No! So stop killing yourself over it and get out of that stupid form!" He shouted, and Quintus's color returned a bit. Satisfied that he had helped, Shadow sat on a nearby rock and waited.

"Y'know, you might not be killing yourself, but you did act a bit immature after Maria." Sonic said, popping up next to him.

"Shut up, faker." Shadow said. "Well it's true. Do you not remember how you repeatedly tried to kill me?" Sonic asked. "Once again: Shut up, faker." Shadow said.

After a few minutes, Joe and Pinkie appeared, closely followed by everyone else.

"Alright Pinkie, work your magic." Joe said, and Pinkie did what she does best: be Pinkie. She was bouncing around faster than usual, asking, "Hey Quintus could you please cheer up? Please? Please? Pleasepleasepleasepleaspleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease" Ok you get the picture.

Quintus's color was slowly returning due to the pony's silliness.

Once it was fully back to normal and his wings were feathered, he laughed. And everyone else did too.

Quintus stood up and walked over to the pink pony.

"Thanks for cheering me up Pinkie. You're the best." He said.

"No problem Quintus! It's my job to make everypony super happy and cheery!" She cheered.

After a while, everyone managed to stop laughing, and realized that they were in the middle of the Everfree forest while the sun was starting to set.

"So… what do we do now?" Gold asked.

"I got the answer to that. I can teleport us all out of here, but since I just got out of my depressive form, I'm going to need an energy boost to" Quintus started, but Sora put a hand on his shoulder.

"You've had a rough day, buddy. I got this. CHAOS-CONTROL!" He shouted, and they all were teleported back to Twilight's house.

From there everybody went to his or her respective places of rest (Blade and Ensis went to Fluttershy's cottage, in case I haven't said that) Except Quintus.

"Well? Aren't you going?" Twilight asked.

Quintus nodded, and then promptly fell unconscious from exhaustion.

"Ugh. What am I going to do now?" She asked, and turned to Tails and Gold, only to find them both asleep already.

Suddenly Pinkie appeared, or did she even leave?

"I can take him back to my place Twilight!" She exclaimed.

"Are you sure Mr. and Mrs. Cake will be alright with that?" Twilight asked.

"Sure they will! And besides, AJ is too far away, RD and Flutters already have guests, as do you, and if we took him to Rarity's house, he'd probably wake up either with a measuring tape on him or the CMCs staring at him. Please, Twilight? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?" She asked.

"OK! You can take him back to your place." Twilight said.

"YAAAAY!" Pinkie cheered, and that cheer was enough to wake Quintus back up.

"There. He should be conscious long enough for you to get back to Sugar Cube Corner. See you in the morning, Pinkie!" Twilight said, and Pinkie led the oh-so-very-tired hedgehog back to her room in Sugar Cube Corner.

Whew! That was quite the chapter. What did you readers think of Quintus's flashback? I'll take any feedback, good or bad.

I got another OC whom I will try to get in next chapter, so see you guys then!

BYEEEEEE!