Hard Times - Part 25

"Robert, quick question." Rainbow Dash asked.

"Sure," I replied, "what's up?"

"Well," continued Rainbow Dash, "it's more of a question Twilight has."

"Alrighty then," I said, turning towards Twilight, "what's your question, Princess?"

"Hey," Twilight explained, "watch yourself!"

"My apologies, Twilight," I told her, "now what was it you wanted to ask?"

"Well," started Twilight, glancing heavily down at me, "you do understand that there is no such thing as a 212° East or West, right?"

"But there is such a thing as a 212° coordinate plane, Princess." I replied.

Twilight glared at me harshly. "You're pushing it, Robert," she said, pointing one of her hooves towards her stomach, "wouldn't want anything to happen to you, you know."

"Am I detecting some negative aura reminiscing from you, Twilight?" I playfully asked.

I sometimes wish I could shut my big mouth from time to time. Why, you ask? Well, for one, it gets myself in trouble, especially now. Allow me to explain: Twilight took that comment the wrong way and wrapped her magic aura around my body, bringing me up and dangling me above her head. I tried reasoning with her and apologizing as much as I could.

"I'm sorry, Twilight," I pleaded, "I'm so, so, so sorry! I'll make sure it won't happen again! Please don't hurt me..."

Twilight stared heavily at me, shutting her open mouth slowly. "Fine," she finally said after some tense silence, "I'll hold you to that promise."

She then gently placed me back on the ground and bent down so the she could whisper something else to me.

"However," she started, "if I feel that you're breaking your promise," she pointed towards her stomach once more, "next time, I won't be so nice about it."

"You have my word, Prin...uhh, I mean, Twilight." I replied.

"Good boy." answered Twilight.

How does Spike deal with you? I thought to myself.

It's as if Twilight read my thoughts as she turned around and gave me a very intriguing smile. As I watched her smile at me, I was being wrapped once more with some magic aura, this one belonging to Rarity seeing how it was a light blue colored aura covering me. I glanced over at Rarity as she once again placed me on her back. She turned her head to face me and smiled back at me.

"I don't know if I should be scared of Twilight or not." I whispered to her.

"Now, darling," Rarity quietly replied, "Twilight's just having some fun, seeing how cute you are, all small and tiny."

"I don't know, Rarity." I meekly answered. "After all, she was nearly close to eating me just there."

"I'm certain she wouldn't have eaten you." Rarity assured.

As Twilight walked out of the room, leaving just Rarity and myself, I began questioning that logic.

"How certain are you of that, Rarity?" I asked.

"Fairly certain, darling," answered Rarity.

"I wish I could believe you, dear..." I said, unaware of how exactly I finished that statement.

"Pardon," Rarity quickly asked, "did you just call me 'dear,' darling?"

"I guess I did," I replied, "sorry if I overextended my word play."

"It's quite alright, Robert," Rarity said, "I actually like it. The way you said it with such sophistication and so professional like, it really was interesting and appreciative."

"Well," I chuckled, "there's more where that came from, dear."

I walked up to Rarity's face and gave her a kiss on her cheek. Heck, it might have been all that I could see, but I clearly saw her blush a nice, magnificent magenta color.

"Oh, Robert," Rarity quietly said so that she wouldn't hurt my ears, "how unexpected."

"Too much, Rarity?" I asked without hesitation.

"Perhaps," she replied, "but I do very much enjoy it, darling."

"Well, like I said," I continued, "there's more where that came from."

With that said, I once again gave Rarity a kiss on her cheek, which she seemed to enjoy, topped off with her giggling a bit.

"Oh, Robert, darling," Rarity said, "you do know how to treat and respect a lady with glamor and perfection."

She then turned her head towards where I was and lightly kissed me on top of my head.

Spike, I thought to myself, you surely would be jealous of me.

Suddenly, the door to the throne room opened wide up and out came Discord and King Sombra. Rarity had turned her attention over from me towards the two villains as she began shuffling backwards.

"Well, well, well," began Discord, "look who we have here, Sombra!"

"Run, dear..." I whispered into Rarity's ear.

She took my advice and turned straight around and attempted running away. Unfortunately, and I don't know how this slipped my vision, King Sombra was standing right behind us and began shunting us back into the throne room. With the heavy doors slamming shut behind us, Discord dragged us over towards the throne he had claimed as his own and began grounding us while Sombra held us down with his magic.

"Now," Discord said as he chained down Rarity, "we'll never be defeated!"

"The Elements of Harmony won't work without all of you!" Sombra added. "Not that you would've found them anyway."

Discord then spotted me as I tried hiding myself inside Rarity's mane. Rarity noticed this and tried to motion her mane so that I could attempt to escape from Discord, however, he grabbed me with his horrible, dreadfully piercing claw.

"Now, what do we have here?" Discord said, dangling me in front of his face.

"Put. Me. Down!" I demanded.

"Now why would I do that?" Discord added.

"Put that pest in this." Sombra requested, magically spawning a little jar to put me in.

"Excellent idea, Sombra!" praised Discord, dropping me into the jar and slamming the lid shut.

"Robert, darling!" Rarity cried.

I got back up, only to stumble down as the jar I was in was slammed down on a table located next to Rarity.

"Robert, darling," Rarity asked, "are you alright?"

"I'm fine, dear," I replied, "how about you?"

"Simply fine, darling," answered Rarity, "though I wish these shackles were taken off of me."

"Can't you use your magic?" I asked.

Rarity motioned her head so that her mane would move out of the way so that I could see her horn, which was being covered by this unusual dark pebble.

"Whatever this is," Rarity told me, "it's forbidding me to use my magic..."

"And that's a great way to keep you two here!" Shouted Sombra.

"And when the Elements of Harmony return with Celestia, Luna, and Cadance," added Discord, "we'll finally get rid of them all!"

No... I thought.

I looked over towards Rarity, who had a look of disbelief attached to her face. Looking back at Discord and King Sombra, I vowed to myself that they would pay for what they have done.