BiE 33: Homecoming.


                                            =BiE 33=


                                            >Light seeps in through your windows and wakes you up.

                                            >That sucks, you can see why Mous hates being woken up like this.

                                            >You pull the still sleeping mare laying next to you closer, okay maybe it wasn't all bad.

                                            >Rainbow had stayed at your place every night since your talk with Fluttershy, finally able to know that she wouldn't be ruining a friendship in doing so.

                                            >Rainbow nuzzles into your chest as she wakes up "Five more minutes..." she complains.

                                            >You kiss the top of her head. "Come on lazybones, we both have work today."

                                            >She waves a hoof dismissively. "Buck work...I'm staying in bed today."

                                            >"I'll bet I can get you out of bed." you say as you play with her hair.

                                            >A small laugh is your answer. She asked for it.

                                            >You grab Rainbow by the flank and jump out of bed, ignoring her yelp of surprise as you do.

                                            >You make sure to lean Rainbow against your chest as you carry her out to the kitchen, her moaning at being moved not helping matters.


                                            >Mous is eating at the table when you get out. "Are you always out here before I am?" you ask.

                                            >Mous shrugs. "I get up when I hear you moving around so I can ensure I always get the best seat."

                                            >You roll your eyes and walk into the kitchen, Rainbow still leaning on your chest. "Anon, throw me an apple if your -that- set on moving me this early."

                                            >You pop an apple in your mouth and grab one for yourself. These Golden Delicious were the best.

                                            >You carried Rainbow back to your room after breakfast, she shifted her weight and fell onto the bed again.

                                            >Oh dammit. "I thought that getting some food in you would wake you up some..." you lament.

                                            >You can see Rainbow's grin from here. "Yeah, bad move on your part. I'm gonna have to lay here and let this food digest for a while before I get up again."

                                            >You lay down next to her."I got you out of bed once, what makes you think I can't do it again?" you ask.

                                            >Rainbow smirks at you. "I'm ready for you this time."

                                            >Luckily, force is not your only option.

                                            >You jump off the bed and head into the bathroom. "Okay, you just lay there while I shower, you know, naked and stuff."

                                            >You hear her shuffle around on the bed. "That...won't work Anon..."

                                            >You turn on the water and step in. "Sorry! Can't hear you over the sound of me vigorously rubbing my wet chest!"

                                            >You hear the something jump onto the floor and clop into the bathroom. You wipe the steam off the glass to see Rainbow grinning at you. "You're a terrible special somep0ny, bribing me with sex like that."


                                            >Forty minutes later, you're showered, laid, dressed, and walking out the door.

                                            >You kiss Rainbow goodbye as she takes off into the clouds. "So, does she taste like skittles?" you hear behind you.

                                            >Mous is standing in the doorway behind you, heading out as well. "Skittles?"

                                            >He gives you an incredulous eyebrow.

                                            >Oh.

                                            >Tasting. Rainbow.

                                            >"Haha." you say.

                                            >You walk ahead as Mous waits by the mailbox for Derpy. Something about giving her a hug he forgot about.

                                            >You walked by somep0ny on a stage as you got closer to town. He was ranting about chaos theory or something.

                                            >The library was abuzz in papers when you stepped in.

                                            >Papers were strewn about the floor, books sat open on ever piece of furniture available, a chalkboard with what looked like a time dilation equation sat in the corner.

                                            >"Oh, hey Anon!" you heard from the other room. Twilight came trotting out to great you. "You're just in time!"

                                            >A quick once over told you that Twilight had at least slept, no bags under her eyes and she was keeping balance pretty well.

                                            >"What is all this stuff, Twi?" you ask as you motion around the room.

                                            >Twilight's face lights up like a Christmas tree. "The Princess sent over a special spell that her magisters made and she wants us to help!"

                                            >You grab one of the pieces of paper laying around and start scanning it. "What kind of spell are we talking about?"

                                            >"Why, the spell to send you home, of course!"


                                            >...what?

                                            >A lump forms in your throat.

                                            >"S-She finished that?" you ask.

                                            >Twilight goes back to reading a large tome. "Not yet, but she says she has the base component down. It's our job right now to take care of the stability of the portal."

                                            >Stability, that means she already knows how to send you elsewhere and how to power it.

                                            >The hard part's done.

                                            >This portal nonsense could take a few weeks, a month at the most, but then what?

                                            >How much longer did you have here?

                                            >"R-right, I'll go work this out." you say.

                                            >You sit down at the desk and start crunching numbers based on the magical theory you know, but your heart isn't in it like it normally is.

                                            >How much longer were you going to be here?

                                            >Were you allowed to opt out?

                                            >Should you?

                                            >What would Mous say?

                                            >You admit that you missed your family, but you know that you'd miss Rainbow and all your other friends here if you left.

                                            >Shit, you had a GIRLFRIEND here. One who had been living with you a month.

                                            >It was no doubt that the two of you cared about each other, you didn't want to leave that.

                                            >But...at the same time, you didn't think that writing off your homeworld was the best mode of thought.


                                            >"How's it going?" you heard over your shoulder, causing you to jump.

                                            >Twilight stood behind you. "Uhh. Fine. Fine, take a look." you hand her the paper you had been writing on.

                                            >Twilight's face grows a shocked expression as she reads. "Anon, did you do all this right now?" she asks.

                                            >"Well, yeah." you say. "Why?"

                                            >"Anon, this is incredible! You've cracked the portal stability equation! How did you do that?" Twilight asked.

                                            >You turned in your chair. "Well, it was simple enough. I figured out what kinds of magic we'd need, probably special manipulation and maybe a time tunneling spell if time is different there than it is here, And then I just used general Arcane energy to bind them together." You look up at her. "Is that...special?"

                                            >"Incredibly!" she cried out. "Nop0ny has ever thought of combining different types of magic energy together! We always just kinda brute force it."

                                            >"Well, different ways of thinking, I guess." you say.

                                            >"This'll cut down on the time till the portal is done drastically! I can't wait to get you started on the other aspects!"

                                            >Waitwhat?

                                            >Oh god.

                                            >No.

                                            >Dammit, no.

                                            >You just cost yourself a month of time here!

                                            >Idiot!


                                            >You groan and put your head in your hands.

                                            >Idiot. Stupid idiot!

                                            >Twilight senses something is wrong and approaches you again. "Anon? Is something wrong?"

                                            >You talk through your hands. "Twilight, have you ever wanted something, and then later on your realized you didn't want it anymore?"

                                            >"Did something happen, Anon?" she asked.

                                            >You looked up and saw the concern in her eyes. "It's just...I've built this life here that I love and suddenly, this thing that I should want with all my heart comes along and is ready to take me back to my old one and...I don't think I want it to."

                                            >Twilight puts her hoof on your arm. "Well, I think you've answered your own question, Anon. If you love someplace, you don't try to leave it."

                                            >"But what about my family?" you ask.

                                            >Twilight gets a knowing look in her eyes. "Would your family want to see you again if you were going to be unhappy?"

                                            >"But...what about the spell?" you ask.

                                            >Twilight levitates the paper you wrote on over to her. "You've cracked something important, but we still have a long way to go before it's finished. And when it is...we just won't use it!"

                                            >You give her a bit of a look. "So, we're doing this entire thing just for its own sake?"

                                            >"Nope! For science!" she says.


                                            >Twilight let you off early today and you began to walk home.

                                            >You felt good. Really good.

                                            >You had always figured that staying in Equestria for a long while would be a possibility, but this was the first time you had -chosen- to stay.

                                            >Ah. And there was your main reason for staying flying through the clouds now. "Hey Rainbow!" you call out.

                                            >She doesn't yell back and shrugs at you. "Head back to the house when you're done! It's important!"

                                            >She nods and flies off.

                                            >You can fully appreciate Ponyville now that you can see it as your home. Fillies ride around in wagons, colts and mares wake through the center of town.

                                            >Some wave hello to you, some even say it.

                                            >But all of them have already accepted you.

                                            >And you them.


                                            -Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0G_FI61a8-

                                            >You arrive at your house, it would be a few hours till Mous got home, which was good.

                                            >Rainbow lands next to you. "What's up Anon?" she asks.

                                            >You open the door and motion for her to come inside.

                                            >You shut the door behind you and turn to her.

                                            >You run your fingers through her hair. "Rainbow..."

                                            >You find yourself at a loss, how to you tell somep0ny that you didn't have to go back to your home dimension?

                                            >"Oh fuck it." you pull Rainbow close and kiss her as hard and deep as you can.

                                            >She's shocked for an instant, but she catches up quick.

                                            >You walk to your room and collapse on top of the bed, Rainbow already pawing at your shirt.

                                            >You spend the afternoon like that, intertwined in the language of lovers that communicates you're feelings and then some.

                                            >You both finish and simply lay there curled up in each other for a while. "Hehe...wow. Where did -that-come from Anon?" Rainbow huffed out.

                                            >You feel Rainbow shudder as you plant kisses up her wings and onto her back.

                                            >You stop at the base of her neck and whisper "Just happy to be home."