• Published 15th Oct 2016
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EquestriaBound Girls: Nightmare in Magicant - Lucky Ness



Twilight defeats Midnight in Magicant with help from Ness and her friends.

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Twilight Meets Ness

Author's Note:

I started writing this when I realized similarities between Ness's Nightmare and Midnight Sparkle. This story takes place after Twilight has to embrace the magic, and after Ness and his friends defeated Giygas. FYI, Ness has PK Fire, PK Freeze, PK Flash, PK Thunder, PK Starstorm, PK Rockin, PSI Lifeup, PSI Healing, PSI Magnet, Hypnosis, Paralysis, Shield, the Legendary Bat, and the Combat Yo-yo at his disposal.

'Where am I?'
Twilight wakes up in her pajamas, which consists of a light blue shirt and dark blue pajama pants with several different colored stars on them, with a giant tomato beside her.
'What happened? Where's the camp?'
Twilight looks around, seeing a multi-hued landscape, featuring several buildings, some furniture, giant vegetables, trees, giant patches of grass and some people, most of whom she recognized, including Shining Armor and her mother. One of the people, a boy about 13 with black hair and blue eyes, dressed in a blue and yellow striped shirt, blue denim shorts, a tan backpack, red shoes, and a red hat with a blue brim approaches Twilight.
"Hello. Welcome to Magicant. My name is Ness."
"Uh, hello? How'd I get here? Where's the rest of the campers? Where's my friends? Why is my brother here? What's going on here?"
"Twilight, please, let me explain. Magican-"
Twilight cuts Ness off mid-sentence.
"How do you know my name?!"
"I'll explain that too. Magicant is the realm of the mind. Everything and everyone that happens here is strongly influenced by one's memories and dreams. There have only been two other occasions where people were known to have arrived in Magicant. I happen to be one of the them."
Twilight stares at him skeptically.
"It's true." A rift opens in front of Twilight, showing her what Ness is talking about. "I went on a journey with three friends once, and I came across this place." Images of Ness's journey to the Eight Sanctuaries appear in the rift. "Like you, I woke up in the Realm of the Mind, and explored around. I met semblances of my family, my friends, other people I had encountered on my journey, and even a semblance of myself, before encountering my Nightmare."
"Wait, your nightmare?" Twilight asks.
"My worst fear, which happened to be the evil that was inside of me. I had to fight it. Like you're going have to do with Midnight Sparkle."
"Wait, WHAT!"
"I told you Magicant is the mental realm. However, I failed to mention that everyone has a slightly different Magicant. You're basically exploring your own mind, so everything here is part of your mind. That explains why your family is here, but it also means Midnight Sparkle is here."
"But then how are you here?"
"It's possible to travel to other peoples' versions of Magicant by using doors like this one." A blue and red striped door appears behind Ness. "When I traveled through Magicant and beat my Nightmare, I absorbed the energy of my mental realm, and then I thought it faded away. However, it didn't. It became a part of me, allowing me to freely travel to Magicant whenever I want. I used your door which let me come here, because I noticed that the energy here had changed because of your magic."
"You still didn't tell me how you know my name, or how you now apparently know that I have magic."
"Oh, right." Ness, says sheepishly. "I'm a psychic. I read your mind with Telepathy."
"That's impossible."
"Coming from the girl who can levitate things with magic. Look, if you want me to, I'll prove to you that I've got psychic abilities." Twilight nods and Ness turns toward the tomato that was next to her when she woke up. "Watch this, PK Fire!" Flames leap from Ness's fingertips, setting the tomato ablaze. The tomato burns for a few moments before Ness puts the fire out with PK Freeze. "Now, if you'll let me, we need to get you geared up."
"Why do I need gear?"
"Because Magicant usually has a bunch of weird physical threats like living bombs, molecules, and dice. And anything that happens here happens in the real world as well. So if you spend money here, you'll have less money on hand when you wake up, and if you get hurt here, you'll wake up with the same injuries, it's even possible to die here, and it would require a lot of my precious PSI to bring you back if that were to happen." Ness turns to enter the door behind him. "I'll be right back with what you need."

A few moment later, Ness returns with a Goddess Band, a Star Pendant, a Goddess Ribbon, and a Franklin Badge. "Put that badge in your pocket, or pin it to your shirt if you don't have a pocket, and put everything else on." After a moment of hesitation, Twilight slips the pendant over her head, puts the band on her arm, ties the ribbon in her hair, and then slips the Franklin Badge into a pocket in her pajama pants. "Good, now these items should help protect you while you're here. That badge will reflect electricity away from you." Ness emphasizes it by using PK Thunder on his own Franklin Badge. "Everything else will significantly decrease the amount of damage you take, and the pendant reduces fire, cold, and electrical damage, and it will prevent you from being affected by bright flashes of light. Now you can go find Midnight, and I'll help you along the way, if you want me to."
Ness sets off through Magicant, with Twilight reluctantly following after a few moments.