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// Chapter 3: A Good Break 
// Story: A Hero's Story 
// by TheBlackPanda 
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	After finding Pinkie Pie in my room this morning, you think I'd be more surprised. But no. Instead, me and Rainbow got it all sorted out. She had made a new cupcake. And It wasn't bad. Just another mundane day in Equestria.


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Kaitlin couldn't believe it. She had forgotten to give Brandon his phone, and she catches him making out with another girl.

"Can you believe him?" she asked her older brother.

"Actually, Kaitlin, I can." Brian said, "Obviously, you don't even live in the same dimension as him. Therefore, he's gonna have to  get a new girl."

"Still..." Kaitlin looked out the window and sang softly a song from her favorite movie when she was a little girl.


Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight

Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there

And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky



She wiped a tear from her cheek.
She missed him so much.


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The day was NOT smooth. Me and Rainbow Dash were not talking. Hell, I didn't ever SEE her for the whole day. She probably thought I was cross-dimension cheating or something. (Make sense? No? That's why she's a girl. They never make sense.) Regardless, Applebuck season was coming up, so I head over to Sweet Apple Acres. But Big Macintosh and Applejack had it covered. I traversed around town to see what I could do for some extra dough. Not a cent. So, I took what money I had left, and headed to Sugar Cube Corner for some cupcakes. I bought some from Pinkie's over energetic self. Then I saw it. For the first time, I looked like a true champ, cupcake in one hand, sword in the other. 
Why? Because Apocalypse was back for round two. I charged him but he knocked me aside.
"Shut up and listen," he said, not too nice. "I figured it would be nice to warn you, you have three weeks until I get here. I already got the Mirror. Which is your friend's home." And like that, he was gone.
My day had gone from bad to worse.


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I got home to find Rainbow Dash, asleep on the bed. Just like her lazy ass. I laid next to her.
"What?" she said, rather rudely.
"I was looking for you," I said. 
"Why? Apparently you have someone else to care about," 
"She was my girlfriend," I said truthfully, "But I want YOU. I said. And that won't change."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I'm serious." 
She turned to me, she looked like she had been crying. Women and their bi-polar emotions. For a second we laid there, me holding her hand and looking her in the eye. I kissed her.


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Kaitlin was about ready to leave this depressing dump. 
"Yo Kaitlin!" Her brother called, "You ready to go?"
"Yeah," Kaitlin replied.
She ran into the kitchen. To be greeted with a shiny active portal.
"Let's go," Her brother said.

Kaitlin smiled.
She was finally going to see him, even if he had a new girlfriend.


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I was laying in bed with Rainbow. We were cuddling together and enjoying ourselves.
And who else would show up and ruin it? My ex.
Kaitlin landed in the cloud palace, and Brian appeared shortly after.

"Hi Brandon," Kaitlin's eye twitched with rage, "Glad to see you're having fun."

I hung my head. Why did every perfect moment have to die in a fire in the dumbest way possible?