Chapter 42: Mystery Ponies and Twister the Poet
MLP: FiM
Piercing the Heavens
By: Calm Wind
Chapter 42:
“Ooooo… ow…” Dash whined as she took the weight off her front hooves and sat down on the edge of a trainer table.
Her forearms hurt… A LOT. They were only at it for twenty minutes and they were wearing the padded arm guards, but all the blows she received while practicing her guard really added up. It would have been fine if Blaze had kept hitting her, Blaze wasn’t hitting very hard, nor did Wave Chill when he made his way around to her, but High Winds and Silver didn’t hold back quite as much. Her arms were tender to the touch. If not for the arm guards, they would surely be covered in bruises.
She wasn’t alone. A good number of her fellow recruits were present as well. They also sat on the end of trainer tables, waiting for attention from the busy trainers. It was the end of the day, so there were quite a few Wonderbolts present as well.
Thunderlane was nearby, although it looked like things hadn’t gone so bad for him. He already had ice bags wrapped around his arms and was sitting patiently until told to remove them. Maybe he felt better seeing somepony else take a punch to the face. Knowing his luck, Thunderlane probably assumed he’d be the one taking sucker punches.
Speaking of somepony else… Squall was already there as well. Dash spotted him four tables down, lying on his back while pressing a bag of ice to his jaw with his left hoof and grumbling. His head-piece had saved his face from being blown apart by Silver’s bone crushing punch, but he’d definitely be feeling the repercussions for the next few days. He also had an ice bag over his right hoof. Understandable after how painful it looked like it was to punch Silver in the face… a thought that just sounded so backwards in Dash’s head. How often does it hurt you more when you punch someone directly between the eyes?
“Hrgh…” Matteo grunted as he passed in front of Dash and sat down on the table beside hers. He too looked like he was having slight issues walking, but he was working very hard not to show it.
“Finally stuff you’re used to, eh?” Dash spoke up as they waited. To her surprise, Matteo shook his head.
“No actually…” Matteo replied as he examined his arms and talons. “I have… admittedly… not trained defense very often.”
“Really? You?” Dash blinked as she thought about it. One would think defense would be second nature for one of Matteo’s size and ability.
“Keep in mind I was turned away from the Sky Wings before I made it through the front gate,” he huffed as he recounted. “All of my opponents were young, weak, and lacking… I never had the pleasure of fighting one with true strength and skill. Against such meager opponents, their blows practically bounced off my well trained body,” he sighed. “Yet another reason I came all the way here… what would be the point, after all the hard work I did, if I were to never use the extent of my abilities?”
“I see…” Dash smiled. “Well, if you wanted to prove them wrong, you picked the right place to come,” she winked at him. Matteo turned and lifted an eyebrow.
“I did not come to prove anything… I merely wish to make use of my—”
“Matty, save it,” Dash chuckled. “I’ve seen you crack smirks, your big ol’ beak can’t even hide those. I know you actually enjoy things… and I know if you become an elite Wonderbolt, you wouldn’t think twice about walking right into the Sky Wings, proudly donning the Wonderbolt uniform, and flipping them off…” Dash sneered while putting her wings forward and retracting feathers until just the center feather on the ends of her wings were extended. “Hell, you have talons, flip four birds at them!” Dash laughed while putting her hooves up in front of her.
“Well…” Matteo looked away from her. The small smirk appearing on the edge of his beak.
“SEE?! There it is again!” Dash pointed at him while rolling back on her table and laughing.
“I admit to being a little… bitter about it,” Matteo shook his head while he continued to smirk. “While I don’t think I’d do anything that… extravagant… I would find success here to be rather satisfying… and solid proof of what they denied me.
“There you go!” Dash nodded as she sat back up. A male unicorn trainer suddenly passed by them and hovered two bags of ice to each of them. Bliss trotted by, using her magic to pass a roll of plastic wrapping to the unicorn before she continued on down the line towards the elite Wonderbolts present.
“Arms up,” the unicorn got right to the point. Dash raised her arms in front of her, showing the tender sides to the trainer. He quickly pressed one ice bag to Dash’s arm and used the plastic wrapping to firmly wrap it around her arm before doing the same with the other, and then helping Matteo the same way.
He was doing a quick, but quality job. This seemed to be the prime time for Wonderbolts to come in, being right after training ended for the day. Bliss didn’t even stop to say hello, she was in the zone and rushing around to make sure all of her helpers were doing everything right.
Dash glanced over to the door just in time to see Twister both enter the training room and immediately trip and fall flat on his face. Two trainers near the entrance stopped what they were doing and glanced at him.
Twister remained face down and his ears flopped up and down a few times before he straightened his body out from head to hoof. He proceeded to inch his body along like a caterpillar, making his way into the aisle, to the trainer table on Dash’s right, and somehow managed to pull himself up onto the table without using his hooves. He lay flat on the table, on his stomach with his back hooves on the head pad and his chin resting on the end. He stared straight forward, his eyes covered with his wild mane.
Dash thought about saying something, but her attention shifted to Little Star passing by them, hovering past with her front hooves crossed and her nose held high in the air. Dash and Matteo kept their eyes on her as she slowly made her way past Thunderlane and over to Squall.
“Here we go again…” Matteo said quietly as Star stopped directly in front of Squall and put her hooves on her hips. Squall turned his head to see past the icepack pressed to his face as she came into view. His signature scowl appeared as soon as he saw her.
“What?” he asked quickly and flatly. Star huffed and hovered just high enough so she could keep her nose turned up and still look down at him.
“So… what have we learned today?” she asked in her motherly tone. Squall’s eyes widened with his glare remaining.
“Are you kidding me?!” he yelled at her, unable to do much with an ice pack on his right hoof and using his left to press another to his face.
“You heard me, wise guy!” Star crossed her hooves and leaned in a little closer despite the glare she was receiving. “I’d say you got a nice dose of reality today! I’d like to hear it, along with an apology for your comments earlier, young stallion!”
“You’re NOT my mom!” Squall snapped. Star lifted an eyebrow.
“Huh? Is this a familiar conversation for you?” Star smirked. Squall’s ears flopped down and his face turned from a glare to pure dread. It only lasted a moment, but it happened. Dash, Matteo, Thunderlane, and Star all saw it. “Oh… strike a nerve?”
“I…rgh!!!” Squall growled. “How about you go twinkle twinkle in someone else’s business?!” He shouted into Little Star’s face.
To Dash… that not only sounded really stupid… and like something Star had probably heard millions of times in the past…
But as for Star… it looked like that was a real sensitive spot.
That was it. Squall was in for it yet again.
“WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!?!” Star’s hooves went roughly back to her hips as she hovered forward and got in Squall’s face. “HUH?!” she pressed her nose to his, meeting his glare head on. “CARE TO REPEAT THAT TOUGH GUY!?” she forced herself forward slightly, making Squall lose his grip on the icepack against his face. It fell to his side as he tipped back from her force. “YOU BETTER WATCH IT, OR ELSE I WILL TWINKLE TWINKLE MY LITTLE HOOF UP YOUR ASS AND DISEMBOWEL YOU!”
“Whoa…” Dash had seen this three times now. She still wasn’t used to it.
“GOD! LEAVE ME ALONE!” Squall swiped his left hoof around and shoved Star away to his left between him and Thunderlane. He quickly reached down and grabbed the ice bag he dropped, throwing it at Star. Star barely moved as she used her special hovering technique to easily shift herself aside. The ice bag flew right past her and hit Thunderlane in the face.
“Ow! Hey!” Thunderlane ripped the ice bag from over his nose and looked incredulously towards the two bickering recruits.
Suddenly, an aura of purple magic surrounded Star.
“Alright little fire cracker…” Bliss’ voice came from past Squall’s table. Star was slowly passed around the table and over to Bliss. “Now I have to separate you two. I’m already super busy, the last thing I need is more injuries… especially from inside my own training room,” Bliss explained as she tugged Star along with her magic.
“LET ME AT ‘EM! I’LL RIP HIS FACE OFF!” Star yelled while she swung her arms wildly towards Squall to no avail.
“Is it strange that I knew exactly how that scenario was going to play out?” Matteo asked as he turned and looked at Dash. Dash snickered.
“Nope…” she nodded. “That’s pretty much what I thought too,” she blinked as she finished, realizing that Matteo wasn’t looking at her, but over her. She turned her head and glanced at Twister. He still hadn’t moved from his initial caterpillar-esque entry. Dash looked back at Matteo. He looked down at Dash and made a very subtle head motion towards Twister. Dash glanced at Twister again, then back at Matteo and shrugged. Matteo made a weak circular motion with his left talons. Dash saw him do it, blinked, and then realized what he was saying. “Again…?” she whispered.
“Mmhmm…” Matteo nodded. Dash rolled her eyes before turning back to Twister.
“Heya, Twister…” Dash began with a fake smile. “Uh… how ya doing? You’ve been quiet lately…” Dash gulped as Twister turned his head towards Dash, somehow all the way towards her without moving his shoulders at all.
“How polite of you to asssssssk,” he slurred as his head began to slowly tick clockwise, despite the motion being impossible from the angle he had his head turned. “I’ve NEVER been better! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehehehehehehehehehe…” as he chuckled, he turned his head back forward, the back towards Dash, then back forward, than faked a third look, moving back halfway through the motion.
Dash stared blankly at him, and then turned back to Matteo.
“He’s fine,” she said casually. She was being honest too. Twister locked up around Silver, but here he wasn’t being any weirder than usual.
Dash looked forward to see a large, folded brown wing with black feather tips pass right in front of her. She blinked in surprise before locking onto the pony it belonged to. It was the tall brown stallion she saw with the oversized blue stallion in the cafeteria. He was walking down the aisle with a very odd stride that caused his plot to sway back and forth. A silly smirk was plastered to his face as he headed in the direction of Bliss as she finished helping out a Wonderbolt.
He approached her slowly, and right before she turned around, he let his neck fall limply and drape over her back. She yelped in surprise, but immediately flattened her ears and rolled her eyes.
“Oh, doctor! I… I think I’m broken! Fix me!” the stallion wailed in a very comical tone.
“Honey, what have I told you about bugging me at prime hours?” Bliss said flatly while slowly turning her head and glaring down at him over her shoulder.
“But my wings!” he cried out while extending his wings and letting them droop. “They are so stiff! I need medical attention!” he bounced his eyebrows. Bliss stared at him for about ten seconds before a devilish smirk appeared on her face.
“I guess a few stretches wouldn’t hurt…” she said as her magic came to life in her horn.
“Oh, thank you doctor, I— WHOA!” the stallion yelped as Bliss’s magic grabbed him by the plot and tossed him onto a nearby trainer table on his stomach. “Yow! Careful there! You could’ve—” he was cut off as Bliss hopped up on the table and stood above him.
“So what’s sore?” she demanded.
“Oh uh… my—”
“Your right wing?” Bliss decided for him as her magic grabbed his wing and extended it out before reaching it towards her right hoof. “Okay, let’s just start…” she began giving his wing a normal stretch.
“Oh, yeah that’s the spoaaaahhhhh ow ow ow ow ow!!!!!” the stallion began flailing beneath her.
“You’re so tight! Here’ just lemme loosen it up…” she cooed as she pushed his wing further.
“My wing doesn’t bend that way! My wing doesn’t bend that way! My wing doesn’t bend that way!” the stallion yelped and yelled as she stretched it out. A loud POP rang out. “OOOOOHHHHH NOW IT DOES!!!!!!” the stallion shouted hysterically. Bliss let go of his wing and he instantly rotated, extended, and retracted it. “Ohhhhh, ahhhhhh, ayyyyeeeee…” he panted.
“Time for the other wing!” Bliss cheerfully exclaimed as her magic forced his left wing up to her and grabbed it.
“Oh sweet Celestia!” the stallion’s eyes went wide. “Ow ow ow!!! Ayeayeayeayeayeayeayeaye!”
POP
“OHHHHH MY LIIIIIFFFFFFEEEEEE!!!!!!!!”
“Uh…” Dash stared wide eyed as Bliss continued to pretty much torture the brown stallion.
“That takes care of the wings! Oh! Your leg looks a little sore!” Bliss mentioned as she turned around and reached for one of his back legs.
“What!? No! It’s fine! I swear it’s fiiiiiiihihihihihihiiiiiiine!” the stallion whined as Bliss began yanking his leg up uncomfortably. “OOOH AHHHH EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
POP
“GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATES OF HELL!”
“This is… a tad disturbing…” Matteo commented as he, Dash, and the rest of the recruits nearby all stared in horror.
Dash shook her head as her eyes were drawn to the left of the torture table. The giant light blue stallion was walking down the aisle from further in the training room. Again… she kept seeing these guys in the same place. She was beginning to wonder which squad they belonged to, because they were clearly sticking together.
However, what shocked Dash was that the giant stallion walked right passed the table where his friend was being yanked apart without even batting an eye. As he drew near Dash, she instinctively reached out and tapped the big stallion’s arm in curiosity. He stopped and looked down at her.
“Uh… excuse me…” Dash asked and pointed towards the torture. “But uh… what the heck is that all about?” she asked with a look of confusion. The light blue stallion glanced over his shoulder at Bliss as she plopped her body down on top of the brown stallion’s back and reached up underneath his arm pits before yanking the stallion’s body up awkwardly.
“YEOW! OH! AH!” the brown stallion yelped, but then smirked. “Ha! Didn’t feel that one! Looks like my spine prevai—” Bliss let him back down and tried again. HARDER.
POP POP POP
“OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH MYYYYYYY SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNEEEEEEEE!!!”
The light blue stallion snickered and shook his head before looking back at Dash.
“Don’t sweat it, they’re married… he probably instigated it,” he explained casually.
“Huh?!” Dash blinked as she looked towards Bliss again. She remembered Bliss mentioning her husband… and how Dash would know when she found the right stallion… aaaaaaaand she was breaking him in half at the moment…
“You think that’s something? You should hear the make-up sex!” the stallion added with a chuckle. All recruit eyes snapped to him and grew wider. Without another word the big stallion continued on his way.
Dash eyed him carefully… and jumped in surprise right as he passed.
A very dark blue stallion with gold eyes and a black mane was reclined on the big stallion’s back, hitching a ride, it seemed. The dark stallion pointed a hoof at Dash.
“Eyyyyyyy…” he said with a forced suave tone as he winked at Dash.
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No mistaking it, this was the stallion that was practically invisible against the compound hallway walls. She was right! These three mystery stallions were all connected.
She watched as the dark stallion proceeded to point and wink at every mare they passed while saying ‘eyyyy…’ until the big stallion reached the door.
“Free ride’s over,” the big stallion said as he kicked the door open, grabbed the dark stallion off his back and flung him towards the door.
“Whoa!” the dark stallion yelped as he was tossed out before the big stallion followed.
“The hell just happened?” Thunderlane chimed in from the other side of Matteo.
“All done!” Bliss hopped down with a smile on her face as her husband slowly slipped off the other side and crashed into a heap on the floor. She trotted around the table and lowered her head down to him as he shakily rose to his hooves. “Don’t forget to sign the sheet on your way out,” she said professionally before returning to work.
“My internal organs… they bleed…” Bliss’s husband whimpered as he limped his way towards the exit, dragging his large wings along the floor with him.
Not another word was spoken between the recruits. After all giving each other blank glances, they merely waited for the trainers to come by and let them know it was time to remove the ice bags. None spoke of what they just saw… because frankly… they didn’t know where to start.
Rainbow Dash opened her eyes, but as she did, everything remained pitch black. She looked down and saw her body as if it was clear as day, but she stood in a void of complete nothingness. She quickly glanced around and caught sight of Spitfire close by to her left, who was also in the process of trying to figure things out. Before they could converse, there was a single white flash a few yards in front of them.
Soarin’s body, devoid of color, floated limply where the light had occurred. They both tried to move towards him, but black bands of energy reached up and grabbed their legs. They struggled to free themselves, but the bands began reaching up over their bodies, and pulling them to the apparent floor.
As she struggled, Dash looked up and saw similar bands pulling Soarin down, only as he touched to the floor, it began consuming him.
“NO!” Dash began to rip and tear at the bonds with her teeth. She flailed with her legs and thrust her wings all around, anything to force herself loose. As she and Spitfire struggled, Celestia suddenly came searing down from above and landed roughly before them. The black energy began wrapping around her legs as well, but with a single swipe of her horn a white blade of magical energy swept through them, fending them off. She turned to Dash and Spitfire and blasted their bonds with her magic as well.
“Don’t let the darkness consume Soarin! If we lose his spirit, the healing magic will fail!” She grunted and swiped at the dark bands again as they tried to reach for her. “Only those with a strong bond to Soarin can tear him free of his own demise! I’ll keep the darkness after us at bay! Save him!!!” She ordered. Neither questioned her because as soon as she spoke, a large pillar of dark energy rose from below and flew towards them. Dash and Spitfire rocketed at Soarin as Celestia shielded against the dark flow of energy. They both clutched Soarin’s hooves and pulled with all their might. The dark energy had already consumed half his body, from back hooves to halfway up his back. It had a good grip on him and their efforts yielded little success. Dash began to panic. They couldn’t get him free.
“DAMMIT SOARIN WAKE UP!” Spitfire suddenly belted directly into his face. Dash glanced at her with a slightly disturbed expression. “What kind of little wimp sleeps when he’s being eaten alive? You’ve gotta be kidding me! GET ON YOUR HOOVES!”
“Uhn—huh?!” Soarin suddenly sputtered and his eyes squeaked open. Dash couldn’t believe it. On a whim, Spitfire just decided to lay it thick on him and it got him to wake up? She really did know him well. Now that she knew what would work—
“Rise and shine ‘Sorewings’! Since when are you lazy!? Better start practicing what you preach!” Her words smacked him in the face and his eyes sprung open.
“What the hell?!” Color returned to his body and he saw the situation he was in. He wiggled his body until his wings were free and started flapping them against the pull.
“On three, Dash!” Spitfire ordered. “One, two—”
Dash was ready to yank Soarin free of the darkness pulling him down. However, right before Spitfire finished her count… ribbons of darkness lashed out from Soarin’s body and struck Spitfire heavily in the face. Spitfire’s hooves were ripped free of Soarin’s arm, and Dash suddenly felt double the pull against her strength.
“ARGH!!!!!” Soarin screamed in pain as the darkness began to envelope him further.
“Soarin!” Dash shifted her weight and pressed as hard as she could to the invisible ground with her back hooves. “NOOO!!!” She yelled out as her efforts yielded no reward.
“Hurry!” Celestia called from behind her. “Rainbow Dash! YOU MUST HU—” Celestia was suddenly blindsided by a surge of darkness. It completely enveloped her. She yelped and screamed as it slowly covered her entire body, all the way up her neck, over her head, and finally snuffing out her horn and stopping her mighty magic.
“Soarin…” Dash whimpered as she found herself being pulled into the darkness with him. “Soarin!!!” she yelled as she watched him slip from consciousness again and the color left his body. She tugged and tugged, but the battle had already been lost. She glanced behind her and saw the darkness that had engulfed Celestia flying towards her. Tears began flowing from her eyes as she turned back just in time to see Soarin’s face devoured by the dark. “SOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAARRRIIIIIINNNN!!!!!!!!!!”
“AH!” Dash yelped as she landed flat on the floor of the barracks. She quickly turned herself over and sat up as sounds of groans and snorts filled the room, the other recruits disturbed, but luckily not awakened by the noise. She blinked, panting, and heart jumping in her chest. She was wrapped in her bed sheet, which came off the bed with her as she fell. It was damp, covered in her own sweat.
Again? No… it was different this time. Her heart jumped again and her breathing was heavy… but this time there was a dream accompanying it. Or rather, a nightmare.
It was no mystery to her. She recognized everything that happened in it. How could she forget it? It was one of the strangest, yet most important moments of her life, rescuing Soarin from being engulfed in darkness. It was a gamble, but if they hadn’t done it, Soarin would have either died anyway, or be forced to live a life without flight. Both of those were pretty much death in the eyes of a pegasus.
However, it was exactly how she remembered it… up until the very end. Spitfire knocked away? Celestia overpowered? Soarin being consumed and her along with him?
That wasn’t right. That didn’t happen…
What did it mean? Was she more connected to Soarin than she once realized?
Now more than ever she wanted to go to him. She HAD to go to him. It was no longer a question of when she’d go, what she would say, or who would apologize first. Something was wrong. Something was very wrong. She had to fix things.
She had no idea what time it was, but she had to get back to bed. The next day was a free day. If Silver didn’t pull her aside at all, she would try to find Soarin immediately. That was… if free day had the connotation Dash thought it did.
She shed the sheet from around her body and tossed it on the end of the bed. She readied to climb back in.
“Hmm…” Dash stopped and contemplated.
She really had to use the bathroom. Silver wouldn’t get on her ass for that… right? He said he wouldn’t. Besides… even Silver has to sleep at some point. Unless he actually was as crazy as he seemed.
Dash stepped down from her bed and carefully made her way down the aisle towards the bathroom.
“Phew…” Dash sighed as she left the bathroom stall. It was pitch black in the bathroom, but her eyes had adjusted to the lack of light.
As hoped, she had no trouble making it to the bathroom, and hopefully she’d have no trouble getting back to bed either.
She stopped at the sink to wash her hooves and the sink furthest from the door… thoroughly washing them and reaching to turn off the water.
The instant she did…
A single bathroom light turned on two sinks down. Dash froze. Her head snapped to her right.
Twister was there…
He sat on a high stool, the single light shining down on him overhead. He had a mane brush attached to one of his hooves and he was brushing his crazy mane… very slowly. Every stroke he made with the brush did nothing to change his wild mane, the strands bouncing right back to their usual position each time. His eyes were narrowed, but his smile was so wide it nearly stretched his face out.
Dash just stood perfectly still, not sure what she was looking at.
Why was Twister in the mare’s bathroom? Why was he brushing his mane? How did he get only one light to turn on? The switch controlled all the lights at once.
Twister suddenly stopped brushing his hair and SLOWLY turned his head to look at her. His right eye twitched a few times, but otherwise his expression remained the same.
“Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…” he slurred her name in a very low tone.
Dash had no idea why… but something about the situation had her completely paralyzed. She wasn’t afraid of Twister, she had seen him overpowered and beaten at his own game multiple times. So why was she afraid to move?
She took one step closer to the exit… and before she could blink, many things happened. She saw Twister move slightly, but he somehow made multiple things happen at once. Her arms were suddenly tied down to her body with a rope, her bottom hooves tied together as well, and she was suddenly sitting on the stool with Twister standing beside her.
“WHAT THE—” Dash was cut off as Twister clamped her mouth shut with his hooves. He gave her a goofy grin before putting a very tight rubber band around her nose and mouth to hold it shut. Twister stepped away and Dash stared straight forward into the mirror above the sink. Twister appeared directly behind her, the wide devilish smile attached to his face.
Dash bounced a very disturbed look at him off the mirror and began moving to try and break free of the bonds. Twister snickered and rested his chin on her shoulder, despite how much she shook about… Then he began to speak.
“Alone was I… With Rainbow Dash,”
“A spunky mare… who is quite Rash,”
“I watch as she tries… to squirm and thrash,”
“And it makes me feel… quite craaaaaazy…”
Dash’s ears flattened as she stopped moving and lifted an eyebrow at him. He pulled his chin from her shoulder while laughing like crazy for about three seconds before he instantly stopped and snapped his head back down, looking into her eyes through the reflection.
“Oh, Dash I just wish… to tell you a story,”
“Truly… there is no reason to worry,”
“I promise that it’s not… clop or gory,”
“But it does make me feel… craaaaaazy…”
Twister moonwalked around her in a circle, attaching the brush to his hoof as he stared at Dash through the reflection again.
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“When I see you… I’m reminded of a mare,”
“Who’s beauty was… beyond compare,”
“I couldn’t help… but always stare,”
“She drove me absolutely… craaaaaazy…”
Dash flinched as Twister began to… brush her mane?
“Oh, with many colors… her mane did flow,”
“And her soft fur… t’was white as snow,”
“I loved her more… than you could know,”
“Alas, she thought I was… craaaaaazy…”
Dash’s eyes darted back and forth as he brushed her mane faster.
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“She had ways to keep me… from getting near,”
“‘Did she despise me?’ … I would always fear,”
“But things aren’t always… as they appear,”
“In fact, they can be… quite craaaaaazy…”
If her mouth wasn’t tied Dash would have yelped as Twister suddenly pushed her off the stool. She shut her eyes as she bounced lightly against the floor.
“Now, now… you shouldn’t lie on the bathroom floor… it’s unclean.”
Twister picked her up and placed her head in his lap. She stared up at him, thoroughly perplexed. He was sitting on the floor, still brushing her mane with one hoof, while resting his chin on the other and staring up away from Dash with a dreamy look on his silly face.
“Soon I learned… it was all a ruse!”
“My confusion to her… it did amuse!”
“Oh, ho ho this mare… I simply could not lose!”
“She enjoyed that I was… craaaaaazy…”
His expression turned down, no longer smiling. He almost looked depressed. His brushing of Dash’s mane slowed down.
“But to my dismay… nothing became of us,”
“Both so very busy… it would be quite a fuss,”
“Then one day she was gone… many words I did cuss,”
“I guess I went a little… more craaaaaazy…”
He gently picked Dash back up and placed her on the stool. Dash had stopped trying to figure things out.
“Another mare like her… I shall never come across,”
“If we never meet again… I will be at quite a loss,”
“I pray for the day… that our paths again cross,”
“And I hope she still likes that I’m… craaaaaazy…”
Twister ran the brush through Dash’s mane one more time before resting his chin on her shoulder again.
“So that is my story… how it fills me with glee,”
“Thanks for listening Dash… to a certain degree,”
“Now I must get back… sleep well! Bonne nuit!”
“I hope you don’t think I’m… too craaaaaazy…”
Twister gave a bow. The single light shut off and the stool disappeared from beneath Dash. As she fell the bonds around her limbs and mouth vanished and she yelped as she plopped on the floor.
“With love,”
“Twister.”
Dash scrambled to her hooves and blinked. She glanced around, unable to see in the darkness of the bathroom. She quickly felt her way around the wall to the light switch and flipped it on. The light poured into the corners of the mare’s bathroom… but there was absolutely no sign of Twister. She stared into the empty bathroom for another minute before switching the lights off and leaving.
She stepped lightly as she slowly made her way back to her bed… still trying to make heads or tails of what just happened to her. She stopped before turning to her bed, glancing away from it at Twister’s bunk. She could see him on the top bunk, covers pulled up, and fast asleep backwards in the bed with his hooves at the head board and his head and the hoof of the bed.
Dash stared at him for a moment before flattening her brow and ears and shaking her head. She glanced at Matteo’s bed in the corner, and shook her head again. Matteo kept making her ask Twister if he was okay…
Yeah.
Everything was normal.
Twister was perfectly fine.
Still the same crazy-ass…
---To Be Continued---
Whoa... some weird stuff happening in this chapter! O_o
But... oh god... im so damn tired.
Dash seems to have similar dreams to Soarins... i wonder what i meants?
Did i break PlayBitz? i totally did...
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed! (I promise the Soarindash is soon 
next chapter? im gonna guess thursday or friday... don't know for sure...
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Amazing chapter i got the first comment yeeeeeeessssss
i think 
OK, I found a new pony to beat around.
Also, this is turning into a pretty good story.
Still not fair!
Here we go again. How many times do I have to say it Pinkie?
I want a story longer than this!
Remind me why I put up with you, Pinkie.
WTF just with Twister at the end?!
(Although I shouldn't be surprised)
What's with the poetry!? From Twister of all ponies!?
This was a very.....interesting chapter to be sure.
I had the lavender town theme going through my head as I was reading this... God Twister's little serenade made me so scared...
But it seems he's got some regrets from his past 
Nice chapter
Yeesh, when Twister showed up in the bathroom, I was worried that we'd get a Full Metal Jacket reenactment. It be a shame to kill the guy off before he, Surprise, Pinkie Pie, and Discord all get together to break reality.
O..k... it got a little "wtf" at the end, but still, great chapter xD
I'm hoping to see some sorindash next chapter...it's been sooo looong since the last one n.n
Silver Lining Insult/Fleetfoot Insult/Cameo Drinking game:
success! I nearly had to chug the whole bottle with those misfits, no offense, in the training room 
That moment is now my favorite highlight of this trilogy 
Chapter 42 = 1 whole bottle
Crazy is a storng word to define Twisters character...I would say he's Mentally Hilarious to put it lightly, but yeah he's CRAZY
Bliss broke the peanut
Note to self, next time I get the bright idea to be lovey dovey while Bliss is busy, dont. just dont.
Though knowing me, I'm a gluten for punishment. Ill forget, and do it again.
HAHA! Fear NOT Citizens! The wonderbolt studmuffin is A-Okay! Why in fact I feel so good that I can just *CRACK!*
Pain! I got Pain in the Glaven!!!
Oh wow... Just... What... Twister... I... Was starting to think that was going to go in a much less... Pleasant... Direction... Not that it was a pleasant direction as is... But still... CREEPY!!!
... You have confused my brain... A lot 
Great chapter... Other than the creep... But maybe that helped... I don't know
Twister's little story sounds like something i'd see in Courage (the show).
Fred? Is Twister based partially of Fred from Courage the Cowardly Dog?
Only... Fred was..... Naauughty.
5048652 that is terrifying!
before a devilish
the bonds around
Hmm, is Discord aware she's having similar dreams? If so, maybe Dash needs to see him sooner rather than later.
Did... did Twister have something going with Celestia?
My buddy linked me this chapter and told me to ctrl+f the find the part with... him.
I've read nothing else in this fic, but I have one thing to say to you, author.
You go to hell, you go to hell and you die.
5048799 5049013 Who, him?
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This story is just so damn fun to read
Thanks
The exchange between Twister and Dash was the best part of the chapter. He's definitely an interesting character.... major creeper
Funny and crazy.
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wait, what?
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Thanks!
Oh pinkie... u so silly, stop breaking reality
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oh that's coming, don't worry
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look up "Freaky Fred" on youtube
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Ever seen "Freaky Fred?"
(From Courage the Cowardly Dog)
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It was... craaaaaaaaaazy
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Twister has been an enigma for a while now... but i simply can't have him just tell the others about himself, that just wouldn't fit.
So i have him do a little in his own way
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YES! Someone caught that too!
I wanted to misdirect with the whole, bathroom scenario from full metal jacket... and then NOOOOOOPE shifted it to Courage the Cowardly Dog
)
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Haha,with Twister, it will always be wtf
(and the SoarinDash is approaching fast
)
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Haha, Bitz shall regret bothering his wife when she's in work mode!
And i've been waiting to do Freaky Fred Twister for a while... as soon as i created his character and made my initial image of him i thought...
"He looks... naaaaaaughty..."
It simply HAD to happen
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Mares... be wary around them... they bite...
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and do damage to organs and spines.
but SOOOOO worth the pain. Believe it or not, I totally deserved that.
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i'm aware that scene might come off as leading to... something else... but as Twister himself said "I promise it's not clop or gory"
It was actually a big reference to something. Have you ever watched or seen Courage the Cowardly Dog? There was once a character in it named Freaky Fred.
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And his whole episode was him talking in a similar manner. When i created Twister, he was partly inspired by this guy
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It was inspired by Freaky Fred from Courage
5049726 after reading this I noticed the similarities of them.
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Yup! Twister is mainly a mix of Fred, the Joker, and Beetlejuice
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huh... that description does kind of match celestia
"White as snow" was used for rhyming 
I'm getting a distinct GySgt Hartman vibe from Silver.
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Er... i love you too...?
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okay that's just... magnificent
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Thank you!
I hope to make everyone laugh, cry, think, scared, and just plain have fun
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I've never written a character like Twister before and god i'm enjoying it so much
Have you ever seen Freaky Fred from Courage the Cowardly Dog? He was one of the characters that inspired Twister, so i had throw a tribute to him in here
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I dunno...
Already reached out to him... no response yet.
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That was completely intentional
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Weird. Oh well. Sadly when your this good, youll start drawing out the trolls and negativity. Hell, I've been accused many times of stealing characters and character designs.
That was fun. I loved Bliss destroying her husband. I can't wait to read some SoarinDash next time. Good luck. Great chapter as always. One question though. So was Twister in love with Dash or with somepony else who drove him CRAZY!!?
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Mmhmm... oh yes i know... i don't talk about them much at all, but i've had my share of trolls here.
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He talks about a mare he once knew who was white with a colorful mane... Dash's mane merely reminded him of that mare.
He's not in love with Dash, he's just being... weird
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she was so mean to me. I'd say I needed a hug but I. cant. lift. my. legs
