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The road to the farm was not to far. The farm was easily in view within a couple minutes. It was a simple two story house with a metal silo across from it. The silo seemed off to me. It looked like it was calling to me.
“Look Assistant!”
Pinkie broke my concentration on the silo. I looked over to her. She was pointing directly at the house. When my eyes met the house, I saw a small filly enter through the front door.
“Who is that?”, Pinkie questioned.
“Let's go and see!”
Me and Pinkie started to run towards the house.
“Wait!”, I shouted coming to a halt in front of the house.
Large bars surrounded the house with no sign of an entrance.
“What Assistant?”, Pinkie asked me coming to a stop behind me.
“We can't enter by the looks of it.”
“What are you talking about?”
I look back at Pinkie in confusion.
“Do you not see these?”
“See what?”
I tun back to the bars. I grab hold of them. They were cold and rusty. My hands felt prickly after I released my grip. I turn back to Pinkie who had a look of confusion as well.
“Uh, how about you go first Pinkie?”
Pinkie complied and began to walk around me towards the door. Once she reached the bars, she began to phase through the bars.
“An invisible obstacle. Great!”
Once Pinkie reached the door, she turned back to me.
“Are you coming?”
I lower my head and sigh.
“Sorry Pinkie. I cannot go any further.”
“What! Why!?”
I bring my head back up to her. She looked worried and scared about entering on her own. This only made me even angrier then before. I then here a high pitched cry from the silo. My head snaps to the silo. It's door was swung open, almost inviting me in.
“I have some things to do on my own.”
I look back to Pinkie who was also now looking at the silo. She looked back to me with even more fear. All she could do was nod as she turned back to the house.
I huff in anger at this situation. Pinkie was becoming scared and frightened without me. All I could do was walk over to the silo. I turn and begin a slow walk to it. Every step making my radio grow in volume. It was no longer the static from before. The closer I got, the more audible it became.
'I.......... ting...... I a.......ing....... I am wai........ '
As soon as I got to the open door of the silo, the full message began to sound right.
'I am waiting! I am waiting! I am waiting!'
I entered slowly through the big doors of the silo. All around the ground were different symbols of the Maktoki magics. The radio stopped all sounds and it became silent. There are multiple TVs attached to the opposite wall of the silo. I enter with caution; My flashlight shinning on most of the symbols. The door behind me slammed shut as I entered.
All the TVs flicked with light as they flashed on. They all stopped on a white screen.
“Hello Assistant.”, His voice called out in an eerie whisper.
“Why won't you let me help Pinkie! She looked scared!”
A heavy laughter emitted from all the hanging televisions.
“Oh Assistant! You are always good for a laugh! You should know by now I have no feelings towards those pastel things!”
His tone changing from creepy to one of taunting.
“This is not part of our agreement! You cannot interfere with my work!”
Another laugh emitted from the televisions as they all went to separate things. One on the top had a video of Rainbow being tormented by Pinkie. A couple bellow that had Pinkie cowering in fear as monster stepped towards her. The last one at the bottom was Pinkie laying injured, covered in cuts and twitching.
“NOOO!! PINKIE!!”
I become infuriated at the images. Pinkie cowering, Pinkie killing, Pinkie dying. I fall to my knees in absolute anger.
“Does this make you angry Assistant? Your care for these things has made you weak! You are going to die unless you lose care for these things!”
His words pass over me. My focus entirely on the floor. My fists were clenched as I started breathing heavily. My eyes shut as I feel something happening.
I open my eyes back up and see all white. Then I see a pair of familiar boots in front of me. I look up slowly. Then, my eyes grow wide. It was me with my normal eyes and hair. I stayed knelt in aw at myself. We were in an entirely whit room. He began to smile.
“Rise Assistant.”
I shake my head to lose all focus and stand up. The other me smiled wider when I met his eyes.
“Assistant, you are doubting yourself! You know what happens when you do that!”
I lose all expression in my face. I bend my head forward.
“But what can I do? My other self is controlling the game, and I don't have anything that can help.”
The other me grabbed my chin and raised it.
“You are thinking negative again! You need to think positively to press on!”
“What does that mean?”
The other me pulled his arm back. He slowly began to disappear in the white of the room.
“Wait! Don't go!”
As soon as he fully disappeared, the room transferred to the one I was in previously.
I find myself standing in the middle of the silo. The TVs and symbols were gone. The door that was closed was now wide open like before. I begin to realize what the other me was saying.
“Think positively to press on.”
I walk out to see the same sights as before. The house still had the bars surrounding it. I walk over and stand in front of the bars.
“Think positively.”
A flood of thoughts enter my head that enlighten me. I close my eyes to focus more on them. I start to hear loud rumbling noises. I open my eyes to see the bars reseeding into the ground.
The bars finally made it all the way down into the ground. I happily walk into the house with my head full of positive thoughts and memories. I open the door on the house and walk in. Inside, there were televisions like the ones in the silo. About four, each one hanging by a some unseen force. Each TV flicked on to a white screen. They all came to life with different videos, but instead of the bad things that were happening to Pinkie, they were my positive thoughts.
The top one was of me in the middle of a group hug from the group. Another was of me and the crusaders trying different things to get their cutie marks. The one next to that was of me at different parties Pinkie threw. But the last one caught my eye. It was a thought that I didn't think. It was me standing on a hill looking over a vast forest. I was smiling at the beauty of it's nature. I then recognized where it was. It was the Maktoki hill. That was where I learned many spells and the ability to camouflage. But that's when it hit me. That was where I also acquired my other self. That was a mistake. I only hired him to protect my mind from any inside attacks in my physique. He agreed but on only one condition. If I ever become agitated or extremely angry, he would take over for me until the problem was solved. I thought it sounded like a great deal, so I agreed immediately.
All the TVs shut off and burst into ash. They slowly floated to the floor making a small row of ashes. That is when I noticed the door straight a head. I then remembered why I was here in the first place. I ran over to the door and flung it open. Inside, I saw a short hallway with Pinkie about to enter the end door. She stopped at the sound of the door opening. She turned to me and ran towards me.
“Oh Assistant! It was horrible without you!”
She stopped in front of me and pulled at my coat.
“But now is no time to explain, it is time to go!”
She ran back to the door and reached for the handle. She turned her head back to me.
“You coming?”
I nod and run over to her. She opens the door to reveal the other side.
Inside was a small arena area with an entire wood floor. Pinkie walked in a head of me. She stopped when her radio began to give of small static. I noticed small movements in the ground.
The slender monster from earlier rose from the ground. Pinkie didn't move a muscle. She stood her ground.
“I finally understand now.” Pinkie said softly, shaking her head slowly before looking at the Slender Pony with a smile.
I watched her as she just seemed to talk to the monster.
“My fear of your presence, your stature over me, your very existence…you’re the colt aren’t you?”
The Slender Pony just stood there, unchanging from Pinkie’s words.
“Well…you’re not him exactly…but you’re my image of him.”
She closed her eyes and smiled, “which means…I’m not afraid of you anymore.”
Pinkies words confused me as I watched her display of courage against the monster. The monster began it's walk towards me and Pinkie. I stood at ready to fight. Pinkie just seemed to stare at him with quivering lips.
“He..”
Pinkie let out a small laugh. I looked over to her with confusion.
“He he he...”
I thought she must have lost her mind due to the current situation, until I saw the monster. It seemed to stop with every laugh that Pinkie did.
“AHAHAHAHAH!”
Pinkie began to laugh hysterically at the monster. It still approached, but seemed to be having trouble while Pinkie was laughing. Then I noticed a bright glow. I looked back to Pinkie. She had her element around her neck and it was shinning bright. The monster began to let out painful cry's and stepped back. The light completely swallowing his figure. I heard another desperate cry emit from the light before it dissolved into nothingness.
Once the light cleared, the monster had vanished and a bright door of light appeared on the other side.
“It's time to go Assistant.”
Pinkie walked towards the light and entered through. I still stood confused at the situation. I came to my senses and began to head to the light.
“Going somewhere?”
The voice pierced the silence of the arena and the radio began it's static. The light door became a large dark swirl of black and purple.
“You are never leaving!”
The room began to shake and crumble as the other me began to take form in front of me. Starting from the feet up, he appeared from the giant portal. He finally reached his full form. It was me like the other time, with beaming red eyes and tinted hair.
“You are weak now! You can never get past me!”
I smile at his attempt to keep me here.
“I finally understand.”
“What would that be?”
I look back at the door behind me.
“You say those ponies are making me weak?”
The door swung open and a bright light was shining from beyond the door. I look back to the evil Assistant. He was trying to block his eyes from the light. The radios static began to disappear as I hear steps approach the room.
I began to feel my immortality slowly return. I look back to the door to see the elements of harmony enter the room. First, Applejack, then Pinkie, then Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Finally Twilight. They all were wearing there elemental sign. I look back at the now decaying Assistant.
“You think they have made me forget who I am?”
All of them began to glow and float forward into the middle of the arena.
“They are my best friends and they have made me stronger then ever!”
“No! This isn't possible!”
The other Assistant was now lying on the ground trying to back away from the six friends.
“They have given my life back! You are only the product of negative emotion! You can never order me around!”
The six friends fired a large rainbow that arced and aimed straight for the evil Assistant. He was engulfed in a large tornado of the rainbow. A large flash of light emitted from the six. I blocked my eyes from the bright display.
“Assistant? Assistant!?”
My eyes shot open. I was lying on the floor of the library. Pinkie and Twilight were standing over me and shaking me.
“Assistant!”, Pinkie yelled in happiness as she jumped on top of me.
“Uh... that was an ordeal.”
Pinkie then slowly got off me as I get up. Pinkie still had her straight mane, but her eyes and color looked more normal for her.
“That was a long trip!”
“What was a long trip?”, Twilight asked.
She didn't know anything about what happened with me and Pinkie.
“I'll tell you later.”, Pinkie said to Twilight.
“Right now, I have to go see some ponies. Oh! And can you do two favors for me Twilight?“
Twilight nodded.
“Can you cast the cloud walking spell on me and get me a red ribbon?”
It has been a few weeks since the incident with me and Pinkie. She has had a ruff week going to visit her sisters grave and such, but she seems back to normal now. I just continue to meditate to relax over my troubles. I had a close call with my other self. I don't think I got rid of him during that ordeal. I can still feel his presence in my head. He has never been one to go away easily. The only times I got worried about him was during the Ursa and Discord incidents. I have to remember what I learned.
“Think positively.”
I think after this session of meditation, I will explore the forest that I meant to a while ago.