CHAPTER 26
"OK... Cartoon... But real... You know what? I really shouldn't even be thinking about this. I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for all of this... I just haven't found it yet. I guess it'll come with time. Best just to not worry about it."
"Oh, hello Kyle." I jumped a bit at the voice. It was Twilight.
"Oh... Uh... Hi, Twilight... How are you?" I put on my best fake smile.
"I'm fine. What about you? You seemed like you were lost in thought. Something wrong?" Oh, you have no idea.
"Nah, I'm fine. Nothing I can't handle, so don't worry about it." Twilight frowned at me. Oops, I guess I said the wrong thing.
"Listen, if something's wrong, I can help you. Anypony can. You've got all of us to go to if you need anything. I'm sure I have a book that could help with your problem." Do you have a copy of My Entire Life is in a Cartoon: Volume Two? I sighed, and leaned back a bit to relax.
"I'm fine, Twilight. I don't think anybody could help me anyways... Wait..." Sean. If he's been into worlds like the Fallout universe and... He knew. He knew the entire time. "Oh he's a dead man."
"Excuse me?" Twilight cocked her eyebrow.
"Oh, nothing. I've just gotta go see Sean. I'll talk to you later, Twilight." I stood up, and started cracking my knuckles. As you can tell, I wasn't in the best of moods.
"O... K then. Bye... I guess." And, I'm off.
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BANG BANG BANG
"SEAN! OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR! WE NEED TO TALK, NOW!" The anger really wasn't helping with the fact that I was still supposed to be in the hospital. It felt like someone punched me square in the chest. Twice. With a car.
"Alright, alright!" The door opened, and Sean stood there smiling at me, until he noticed how mad I was. "What did I do this time?" He rolled his eyes, and motioned for me to come inside. I crossed my arms, and drummed my fingers on one.
"Well, you could start by telling me why you didn't say this was all in a CARTOON!" His eyes widened a bit, but he maintained his composure otherwise.
"Wait, you didn't know...? Oh, right. I remember Celestia telling me that she had to wipe your prior knowledge. Sorry about that." I closed my eyes, and started gritting my teeth. WRONG. ANSWER.
"So... You knew not only about this whole place being a cartoon, but you knew that Celestia fucked with my head... Do you have any idea just how pissed I am right now?"
"Yes... You seem... Upset." He tilted his head a bit, and smiled even wider. You have no idea how much restraint it took to keep myself from throwing a punch.
"Now you listen here... I'm not. In. The. MOOD." My eye started twitching.
"Yeesh... Alright, sorry."
"So... How exactly do YOU get to remember, but I don't? That don't seem a mite bit fair."
"You've been hanging around Applejack too much." So. Much. Rage. I let out a long sigh. "Dude, I was allowed to remember it. Do you remember who my 'bosses' are?" I nodded. All of the Gods of Good from every dimension. "I thought you would have made the connection, really. Of COURSE I was allowed to remember! I need all the advantages I can get, and my knowledge is a big advantage. And besides, I just barely remember it, anyways." I started to calm down a bit. It made sense, really. I'm not exactly the most stable person in the world, so there's no telling what I would have done if I would have had all of my prior knowledge of My Little Pony. Sean needed his knowledge to have the upper hand on Torrie, even if he only remembered little bits about the show.
"Alright... Still, it just doesn't seem right to mess with someone's head like that. Reminds me of a certain someone we know." Sean nodded, knowing EXACTLY who I meant.
"Speaking of which, how long has it been since he got into your head?"
"A while. He said he had plans for Luna... And it really worries me. I wonder if he'll try anything beforehand..." I closed my eyes and started rubbing my chin, thinking as hard as I could as to what he would do.
"Hey, I've got another question for you." I opened my eyes, and looked at him, a bit of annoyance in my expression, but he ignored it. "Have you told ANYPONY about Torrie getting into your head?" I rubbed my chin again. I needed to shave.
"Nope. Not that I know of." His expression darkened a bit.
"Not even Dashie...?" I nodded. "So nopony has any idea that a mental attack could come at them at any time?!" I almost fell over.
"OH FU- This isn't good. No, this isn't good AT ALL. It's ALWAYS when shit starts happening! Why can't I just have ONE normal day around here?! Alright, who do you think Torrie would attack first?" Sean didn't even need to stop and think.
"Dashie. She's the most important thing in the world to you, and you're not with her right now." I felt my heart do backflips. I know he didn't mean to, but Sean made me feel really guilty by saying that.
"Alright. Lets get going then. I'll go check on Dashie and Scoots, you go check the rest of the Mane Six." I smiled after that last part. I always felt like there was a name for them, but I never could get it.
"Alright. But what're you gonna do if they get attacked?" I shrugged.
"I'll think of something. But NO-ONE touches those who I care about, unless they wanna wear their ass as a hat. Now come on! Let's get moving!" I sprinted out the door and shot off into the sky.
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I almost yanked the door off of it's hinges when I walked back into my house. "Dashie? Scoots? You guys here?" It was completely quiet. I couldn't hear my footsteps, given the fact that I was walking on clouds, and it gave the whole place a very eerie atmosphere. "Anypony home?" Nothing. This was very worrying.
"I see you're searching for your family." Torrie. I felt rage shoot through me at the very sound of his voice. "Sadly, they aren't here... I'm going to have all sorts of fun, and you can't do a thing about it!"
"You son of a... You're dead. I don't care what Sean says. 'Respawn' or not, I'll kill you, and kill you, and KILL YOU!" I clenched my fists so tight that they went completely white.
"My my, so violent. Keep it up, I do love to watch you writhe and squirm. Get angry, hit something! Amuse me." If you would have looked at me at that moment, you would have seen mushroom clouds in my eyes. I didn't say anything, and instead bolted out the door and jumped off of the cloud. I had searching to do.
But the incessant evil laughter in my head made me worry.