//------------------------------// // A Scientist and His Boomstick // Story: A Scientist of the Bermuda Triangle in Equestria // by TimeTravelinc //------------------------------// Chapter 23: A Scientist and His Boomstick James jolted awake as he started to feel ill again. He fought his mind trying to get it to believe that he wasn’t really sick. As he sat up, he saw his friends surrounded around him, all asleep. He then got pass them and started to work on a formula that could kill the famed or infamous Nightmare Moon. ‘If I can’t exactly kill her with my experiments, I’ll die trying.’ He thought, then muttered under his breath, “If she doesn’t take over first.” Time seemed to dilate as he worked to try and take Nightmare Moon out of his equation, his body equation, but so far… no luck. Meanwhile, In the Realm of Dreams… Twilight was pacing across a grassy knoll while here friends were busy trying to come up with a plan. “So, James’ mind is being invaded by Nightmare Moon, but how?” Twilight said, as she tried to think of how this could’ve happened. “Well,” Celestia began, “James wrote that he felt a dark presence when he was sucked into the twister. I felt it too, but when I met him, I thought it was just my nerves messing with me.” “We must come up with a plan.” Luna said. “What if we blasted him with the Elements of Harmony?” Twilight said. Celestia and Luna looked at each other, then back at Twilight. “There’s too much at risk, besides using them on someone who can be unpredictable. It may also rewrite his entire mind.” She said. Back at James’ Basement Lab… James mixed different chemicals as he wrote down equations and scanned his mind every 30 seconds. The machine he hooked it up to calculated how much was left of him and how long until Nightmare Moon had taken and rewritten all of James like a computer. There were some points in which it lessened but that didn’t exactly last long. It was like no matter what he did, there was the possibility that it may fail. ‘Then, the end of Equestria as we know it.’ Thought James. ‘Or the beginning of something wonderful.’ James heard something say. He took in a sharp breath as he looked around. He then looked at the machine, seeing how much she had taken over and what parts she did take over. “55% and counting… Thankfully, over certain spots of the mind.” James said to no one. He looked down at a drawer to where held a pistol. He dare not think of what he may have been planning, for fear of… her knowing. Plus, just thinking about it made him sick to his stomach. He then looked at his friends, seeing that they were all peaceful creatures and intelligent as well. He was afraid of what would happen if she got her hoofs on his knowledge and information, as well as some of his inventions. It could spell the doom of the world. He then started tweaking his latest chemical invention, until it was perfect. He smiled, feeling that it was complete. He then noticed himself in the mirror. Walking towards the full length mirror, he looked like he was being dragged through hell. His skin was starting to turn into a dark blue, and he looked tired. His brown hair was going from a dark brown to a different shade of blue. He gulped in fear of what he was becoming, when he heard a sound behind him. James looked back to see his friends wake up from their nap. He then went over to a table to see that his experiment was ready. “Twilight, I have a solution, but I need your help.” James said to her as she woke up. Twilight shook her head, then looked at James, who looked less familiar to her. Deep down, she knew who exactly it was and felt sorry for him. As the others woke up, James explained the plan to Twilight so if something bad happened, she could have his house and hopefully she would explain to her family what happened. “I need you to watch me and see if any physical or mental changes come over me. If I’m not myself, use this if you have to.” He said, slamming a six-shooter on the counter. She looked at it and gasped, knowing exactly what it was. She then looked at him. “I feel that you’re the only one who can stop me if things get bad, because if you can’t stop me… then nothing and no one can.” She nodded, then stood back as James grabbed the beaker full of fluid and gulped it down. The formula flowed down his gullet and was absorbed into the bloodstream. Suddenly, he had sporadic twitches and unexpected changes. The monitors went crazy as this happened, to which caused Twilight to levitate the pistol next to her. He then suddenly fell to the ground with a thud. “James!” she exclaimed as she was about to run towards him, but stopped suddenly. The monitors reading started to glitch for a moment as the seconds tick and as it checked on James. Finally, a hand suddenly popped out from behind the counter and slammed it on the surface, then the other. Twilight aimed the gun towards James, when she and the many others noticed the color in James’ hands change back to its normal colors. He then suddenly popped up as they heard a high-pitched scream that sounded like it came from inside James. “How’d you like the taste of that, eh?” he said. He then looked at his friends and proudly exclaimed, “I’m cured!” He jumped over the counter and landed on his feet. He then started feeling something off with him, as the sound of something in his body changing reached his ears. He started scratching his left shoulder (right shoulder if faced in his direction), which caused Twilight to worry. “James, is something wrong?” She said, as she got close to him. “Maybe it’s a side effect?” Pinkie said. James shook his head, then said, “I highly doubt that it is a side effect, because if it is, it’s annoying.” He then pulled his shoulder out of his shirt and noticed an eye growing out of his shoulder. “AAAHHH!” he exclaimed as he quickly ran out of the lab. “James, wait!” Twilight said, as she and the rest of her friends followed James out the door. The lab was soon empty and quiet, save for the monitors that scanned James. On it, the monitors showed James body, then a 3-D Model of a body being split in two and creating another body. On another monitor, was a test of James’ DNA. WARNING MUTATED DNA SAMPLE DNA 1: James Rouse DNA 2: Sample Unknown. SCANNING DATABANKS FOR MATCH… MATCH FOUND. DNA 2: Nightmare Moon Twilight followed James, until she couldn’t see him anymore. They soon ended up in a clearing in the Everfree Forest. Soon, the others caught up with Twilight, and ended up helping her look for James. They soon heard a howling noise and turned towards the noise to see James standing there with two heads. One was manically laughing and punching his other self while the other looked frightened. He jumped down to where they got a closer look at him and saw that one had a dark blue skin while the other looked normal. This made it easier for them to see who was who. The darker version of James punched him again while laughing manically. The other finally looked mad and poked his eyes out with a *POINK!*. “Ow! Oh, my eyes.” The other James said. He smiled manically, before causing James to go through pain again. James and the other one both ended up doing a crab walk to a tree as his other self started to split again. Finally, James and the Dark James (yea, we’ll call him that) soon split and they appeared to be separate, which surprised both James and his friends. “Who or exactly what are you?” James said. Dark James smiled then said, “I’m bad James and your good James. You’re a goody little two-shoes, that’s what you are.” Dark James started laughing for no reason, “Goody little two-shoes, goody little two-shoes!” he said, mockingly. As he continued mocking him, he punched him a couple of times. “HAHAHAHA! Honk, Honk! Goody little two-sh…” He suddenly stopped as he was blasted a few feet from James with a blaster. “Good, Bad, I’m the one with a phaser blaster… and that was only on “Blast!”.”