Silver was in the hospital, unconcious, but her necklace was glowing as bright as the sun. The astral alignment seemed to be having its affect on the Giga Sparkle, and it wasn't going to get any better. Cyclon and Amber were trying to get inside the hospital room, but the doctors refused, especially so, eeing that they needed unicorns to disperse the excess of magic inside of her. Meanwhile, what was happening in her mind?
"Hm?" my voice echoed throughout this tundra.
I was in a frozen tundra, high in the mountains. The skies burned with a red fire, while the ground I walked upon froze with every step and grew ice shards at said steps. Every now and then, fireballs would fall from the sky and crash upon the ground, creating twisting spirals of dirt that would rise into the air and create small drill-shaped towers.
"Where am I? Hello! Is anybody there?"
Wherever I was, it seemed dangerous and abandoned, so I walked along a trail my mind created to try and find help. As I climbed down a fallen pie of rocks, I saw someone further away. It looked fluffy and white, but I needed to find a way out of here.
"Hey! Is someone there? Answer me! I ned help getting out of this place!"
The answer I got was a shrieking roar that ended in what sounded like an avalanche of rocks.
"I'll just be going, then."
I tried to leave, but I was blocked by some ice shards growing in that direction.
"Oh shit."
The lumbering beast was now right behind me, and facing, I was filled with fear. It was a combination of ice nd fire. While its back was covered in hite fur lined with ice, the front was a bunch of cooled off lava and the typical form flowing throughout the cracks. It was slouched, and kept twisting its head as it stared at me. That head looked like a skull that seemed to be gasping for air.
"Eheheh. I'll just be going now. Sorry to bother you." I put on a nervous smile, but it blocked me with one of its long hands. "What do you want with me?" that's when I saw its ees glow blue. "*gasp* You bitch! Leave me alone!"
That giant kept drooling molten hot lava, and was about to spit at me, before something impaled itself in its head, and caused the beast to turn into a black rock. I was swept off my feet by a purple pony wearing a strange cloak covred with clock hands and who had a mohawk. She was really fast, and I could barely keep up, but she grabbed me again, and we both plummeted into a hole as that creature got out of its prison. I was horridly scared as I fell down the ice slide and slammed into a small pocket below the ice. My head hurt after it hit the surrounding walls.
"Owwwww...Thanks for saving me, but who are you?"
"Me? I'm just something that can traverse dreams and make them come true. I can do pretty much anything in the dream world." she turned around and showed that her pupils were ticking clocks. "You can call me Click Clock."
"What? Your eyes..."
"Dreams are out of bounds of the time stream, so I can pretty much do anything that I want like this. However, it seems that your dream world has begun to destabilize. Even one of the guardians of your mind have lost themselves."
"I don't get it. You're saying that-"
"-You are unconcious. You have, at most, by what I think..." the hands on her eye-clocks spun rapidly before stopping."Hm...about six hours until five years pass."
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me. I'm going to help you get out of here faster, though. That ceature licing inside of yu is affected by the cosmic rays of the universe."
"S-so? Why did that affect the sparkles?"
"Because there exist many types of magic. One of the most powerful is the magic of the astral realm. When that particular formation comes into being, the magics are scattered across all the planets. The sparkles can't control it, so they go crazy. I just have to reach your sparkle and block her absorption of astral magic."
"How?"
"I won't be saying, but I know a shortcut to the center of your psyche."
"Fine. Let's take it."
"Down here."
She opened a portal even lower than the previous. Fuck it. I'm jumping in.
This time, we were swept up by the currents of wind and began to fly above what looked like a thick, green forest full of diverse colors, and sided by mountains. However, as I began to admire the flowers growing everywhere, gigantic plants andweird monsters made up of them began to attack us from the sides and from below. Click Clock just laughed and, with a flick of her hoof, the beast were smashed against the grund and the surrounding walls.
"Wow. You really have no control on your mind right now."
"What?"
"I told you. These things are the guardians of your mind and emotions. Everypony has them...even the human race that you came from, Derry Wilhall."
"Wh-"
"I reign over dreams. I know quite few things about everyone, even you, and the time of Equestria before the princesses were even born. The dream world is a portal the connects every single dimension and world that exists, and that has ever existed. YOU control this world. Not the sparkle. These guardians are YOURS. You must retake control."
"But why are you even helping me?"
"The magic building up inside you is dangerous for the dream world. Do not fret. You are but one of an uncountable number of other beings whose existence has threatened it. You aren't special in any way." she smiled.
"Hmph. Thank you for being so kind."
"In we go."
"What? AH!"
The place suddenly became dark, and I found myself right in front of Silver. She seemed to be in pain and was leaking tons of magic from her body. It looked like a blue sea of sparkles. Around her, there was the damnable serpent from before. The one that was apparently the embodiment of my anger.
"H-help...Me..."
"What the hell is this? Some type of movie cliché? I' constantly return to this dark area, and the 'evil character' will become good?"
"Hey. This is your mind, not mine. That thing is the guardian of your anger, hatred, and self-loathing. I see that it has grown tremendously comared to many. Even with the one you gave birth to, you cannot get past the past? You will have no future if you cannot deal with that life and forgive your parents."
"Forgive them? Never! And when did this become about my mental state?"
I had to dodge a strike coming from that serpent. It seemed intent on devouring me. Even while dodging, Click Clock seemed to just float and bounce slowly in the air. She didn't care.
"Can't you help me?"
"I am. Keep it distracted and I'll have this thing cured in no time."
"How? I thought there was nothing that could do that!"
"The universe of dreams , Derry. The universe of dreams. There is another world that has found the cure, and I'm going to employ it!"
The serpent slapped me away before noticing what that mare was doing, and tried to attack her, but, tried something. If this was my mind, then controlling it wouldn't be a problem, so I put myself to it. With some concentration, I managed to impale the snake with thorny vines and slam it onto the ground. Click Clock punched something into Silver's head, and the next thing I know, I'm in the hospital with Amber having fallen asleep on my chest. Judging by her face, I'd have to say that she cried heself to sleep. For some reason, I passed my hoof through her mane and gave a faint smile. She must've felt it as she snuggled closer to my face while wincing.
"Like I told you, your mind, your world. Just don't forget the worlds of those around you who can be affected by it. That little ball of fuzz on you should tell you what you should and shouldn't do. Also, don't worry about Silver. The cure is a long and tedious process, so she'll be knocked out during the time. Don't worry. Her magic will still flow, so you can be a little mutant. Not that you aren't already one. Consider me as a deus ex machina that appears only once. Take good care of Amber Jewel."
It seems that I'm being visited by strange beings from everywhere lately. I just hope that whatever else that lies out there will leave me alone. I think that I've learnt my lesson. I don't need anymore of these torturing events to come into view anymore.
"Almost forgot. You had one minute before the timer popped."
MOTHERFU-
This chapter is more of a randomizer, but don't forget that a giga sparkle's magic is unstable and can cause things like this. No. I'm not doing this anymore. I just wanted to find a place to put Click Clock in the spotlight.