Chapter 19: Anything is possible...
"I'm sorry" Twilight said, getting her a sympathetic look from Mike.
"I-It's fine. Gimme a few weeks" He said with a quiet and forgiving tone.
"W-weeks?"
"It's a broken bone, Twi. Two weeks i think would be accurate" Mike replied. Twilight opened her mouth to speak but she was cut off by Mike. "Which means I need crutches. Dammit!"
"Crutches?"
"Yes crutches, they're essentially big sticks you use for support. And i hate them. I broke my leg in three places when a bookshelf crushed it. I was 14. Without a doubt, the most painful experience of my life" Twilight could only feel guilt.
"I'm sorry, but your dancing was really good" she replied
"I'll be fine. This at least gives me a reason to stay indoors."
"Wh-why would you want that?"
"Don't even get me started. I'm the only male in what seems like the entire town who gets attention. Dash is getting clingy, you like me, I can tell Rarity seems curious as to what would happen, Applejack wants to kill me, and every day for the past three days someone has been after me. It's tiring." Mike said.
"Oh, well..." Twilight came here originally to research him; maybe she would get another chance later.
"Come here, i have an idea, i wanna show you something" Mike said, motioning her to come closer."It's a mind-sharing thing. Heard of it?"
Twilight blushed and gave an awkward look. "Well of course, but it's considered a personal thing, Only very close friends and Unicorn couples do it" she said. Mike was confused, why wouldn't Luna mention that? Unless...
"Shit. She likes me too" he thought. "You know what? That's fine, we don't have to do it" he said.
"W-well we can still do it! I mean, if you wanted..."
"This is a ploy to get us together isn't it?" Mike shot her an accusing yet joking look.
"Well it may have been..." Twilight blushed deeper, looking away slightly.
"We're not exploring memories, i just want to show you something, come on." Mike asked. Twilight nodded and walked a bit closer. Mike pinched her horn, enveloping the two in thick white.
"Where are we?" Twilight asked.
"This happened last time. What's with the white? Hang on" Mike said. He clicked his fingers and the background turned into a dark yellow. "Much better" he said nodding.
"Why yellow?" Twilight asked.
"It's a smooth colour, and the first one i thought of" Mike said. Twilight rolled her eyes. "So! Who wants to see a city?" Mike asked cheerfully. Twilight nodded eagerly. Mike gave a strained face and once again the two were enveloped in thick white, before appearing in a blue sky. Twilight coughed.
"What's with this air?" she asked.
"Oh... That would be pollution i think" Mike joked. it wasn't landing.
"Well... the city looks..."
"Yes it looks amazing" Mike boasted.
"Why's it so big?"
"It's London, 20 million people equals big city" Mike explained.
"20 Million!" Twilight gasped.
"Yeah yeah get it out of your system" Mike said. Twilight gave her a look. "Watch this!" Mike exclaimed and pointed to something in the distance.
"There's nothing there i don't see-AAGH" Twilight said as a radiant white flashed on the horizon before dissipating, revealing a grey-orange mushroom cloud.
"I just nuked the white cliffs of Dover"
"Why would you do that!"
".Lulz." Mike said. "Oh come on nobody died. Silly pony." Twilight gave a 'Well i suppose' look. The two were engulfed in white again before appearing back in Mike's house.
"That was... interesting." Twilight said.
"Yep. But about the nuke... i was experimenting, i wouldn't do that in real life. Ever." Mike explained, his words put Twilight at ease.
"Все еще не поклонник сломанной лодыжки, *кашель*" Mike whispered.
"What?"
"Oh nothing..."
"Are you ill?"
"That's racist! It's a different language I'll have you know!"
"Oh, sorry" Twilight said. Her face soon changed to one of interest. "Which one!"
"Russian, the language of the Russians" Mike said triumphantly.
"Oh..." twilight mumbled with a tone of disappointment.
"What did you expect? 'Russian, the language of Joe pasquali's left nipple? Honestly" Mike said in a cat-face accent. Twilight just gave a confused look. It was the only thing she could do, Mike was hurting her brain.
"Well look at the time! I should go and... feed spike!" she said before galloping outside and away. Mike made some crutches with magic and limped out of the kitchen, unfortunately one of them snapped, leaving him on the floor, in a lot of pain.
"Damn it!... wait.. These are NHS Crutches!"
"Come ON sister!" Luna droned.
"No" Celestia replied.
"But I'm serious" Luna said.
"Doubt it, Luna. He's just the first guy you've properly met" Celestia snapped, her words stung Luna, but she wasn't going to give up just because her sister said no.
"You'd know all about 'Properly' meeting him wouldn't you?" she retorted. Celestia's face became more irritated.
"My personal life is NONE of your concern. NONE. How did you get Mike to tell you!"
"I didn't! He told me himself!"
"He wouldn't!"
"How would you know! All you did was FUCK him sis! And he regrets it!" Luna stood her ground, but could see her sister was hurt.
"He-he told you?" she said.
"No, we merged, and i saw his memories... his thoughts... his regrets! He loves me back, he just doesn't know it!"
"We-well you can't! He's a mortal! You know what will happen!"
"We can solve those problems! Why can't you let me do what i want!"
"Fine! How's this!" Celestia snapped, her horn glowed and now Mike was in the room. On crutches. He saw the two's faces.
"Oh dear lord you've had an argument haven't you?" he asked.
"Mike, why did you tell Luna about our night?" Celestia asked through her teeth.
"Because i trusted her enough to tell her" Mike replied in a serious tone, which surprised the princess of the sun.
"You-you, no excuse?"
"Ask a serious question, get a serious answer" Mike replied. This relieved Luna.
"Do you love Luna?" Celestia asked in an accusative tone. Mike sighed.
"Seriously? You're actually asking me that? I'll give you the best answer i can alright?" Mike said, Celestia nodded.
"My time with Luna is the best, and i get on better with her than i have any other girl I've met before. Including you. I find her attractive, both physically and personality-wise, so Could we have a relationship? Yes. Could we be soul mates? Yes. But do i have that gut feeling, that one sure-fire thing that tells me she IS the one? No."
Celestia paused. Mike was much more intelligent than she thought, and he had a very adaptable and appropriate personality, while still being... Mike. Him being too... unsuitable wasn't the issue, it was that if they made him immortal, which was the only way for him to have a relationship with Luna, They had to be SURE he was the right guy. There couldn't be ANY doubts at all. "Luna, the answer is no" she replied. Luna's heart sank.
"But-" Luna said.
"No buts, it's a no." Celestia interrupted.
"What's a no?" Mike asked.
"I wanted you to be my escort" Luna replied.
"Escort?" Mike said.
"If you were Luna's escort, you would have to follow her everywhere to make sure she was safe." Celestia explained.
"But... you have bodyguards. Many of them" Mike said.
"It's more for the company really... i get lonely" Luna said quietly.
"Well if I'm free i could just visit but... this is terribly awkward I'm sorry" Mike said before disappearing again. Celestia rolled her eyes and brought him back into the room.
"What?"
"Why'd you leave?" Luna asked. Mike limped over.
"Sorry, crutches. I broke my ankle earlier" Luna chuckled, her horn lit up and Mike had a look of relief. He got rid of his crutches and leant down to Luna's level.
"How did you do that?" He asked. Luna had just completely repaired his ankle.
"Easy" She replied.
"Why did you do that?"
"Because..." She trailed off and pulled Mike into a kiss. He was taken off guard but he soon settled into it, moving his tongue playfully while Luna passionately explored his mouth. The kiss was broken by Celestia's magic.
"Luna! Control yourself!" she ordered before whisking Mike away and giving her a look.
Mike reappeared sitting down next to AppleJack. She jumped before instinctively kicking him direct in the ribs, causing a rather disturbing crack. Mike coughed blood.
"Oh-oh my god! Why would you do that!" he screamed, clearly distressed. AJ realized she had crossed a line, even if he was a soulless meat-eater.
"Ah'm sorry, it was an accident!" she said. Mike grunted in pain. Blood started pouring out of his mouth, he tried to hold a hand to his chest, but he was in agony. Applejack just watched as Mike strained himself, placing his hand over the injury and covering it with a red beam, surrounded by red medic crosses. Mike stopped and passed out, leaving AJ to pick up the pieces.
Mike woke up about four hours later. He felt his chest and sighed. "This is getting ridiculous" he said, looking round and spotting a relieved AppleJack.
"Well Howdy" she said. "Ah'm mighty sorry for hurtin' y'all, i was-"She was interrupted by Mike.
"It's fine, you're a pony. I get it, no worries." He said. AJ was taken completely aback by this, She could've killed him, and he just apologized? No blame, no rant, just an apology? Maybe he wasn't so bad...
"Are ye serious?"
"Ummm yes, just don't make a habit out of breaking important bones" He asked. AJ chuckled, bringing a silence into the barn. Mike broke it. "Look, I'm gonna be honest here... You don't like me very much, and i get the feeling you're a bit difficult to work with, and while I'm grateful for the... rest, I'm gonna just go ahead and leave... if you want to chat then... BYE!" Mike said before running away. AJ compiled her thoughts and went to talk to Mac about Mike.
The man in question was mentally exhausted, he just wanted to show Twilight some things he thought she would find interesting, but instead he got all of this... SHIT! Countless ponies liked him; he suffered a fatal injury, and now his feelings for Luna were legit? Sure enough it's a lot to happen in a day, and Mike decided to do something for Himself with the remainder of his day: Sleeping followed by... eating. He hadn't thought this through. Regardless he spent the rest of his day sleeping and just lazing in the house, eating meat. (He didn't have many opportunities for that with the place filled with vegetarians)
AppleJack had a chat with Mac about Mike, and decided that he was a 'nice' ruthless meat-eater.
Twilight couldn't understand AT ALL what Mike had said, even though, believe me, she tried.
The two royal sisters however, found themselves talking and arguing about Mike for most of the day, Luna wanted Celestia to let them be together, and Celestia was standing her ground that Luna was too forward.
Mike slept.
Spike also slept.
Chpt. End.
There you go, chapter 19(21) for you. Just for fun i threw in a spongebob reference and lot's of events, next chapter will be slower, i promise. If anyone could understand Mike's Russian, post it in a review for all to see.
And the reason i haven't been updating this week is that i have been EXCEPTIONALLY busy, i have had numerous commitments to carry out, and i have also recently downloaded TF2, so those things drained my time. It was mainly The other commitments though, I've only spent 3 hours on TF2 this week.
And if you haven't figured it out, there will not be any more pairings other than MikexLuna. It is my decision and it will stand. However if i make a sequel Twilight will get justice... and some more requests can be taken. (Vinyl Scratch, for some reason, is a popular one)
Bye all,
KG