The "Twilight" Zone

by Thatonepony9495

Chapter 6

For some reason, I expect to be in the same field I was in during the other dream. I’m not there though. I’m on the couch in the house. Why would I start here? I get off the couch and start heading outside. When I reach the front door, I hear something behind me.
“Whoa Nelly! Mark what are you doing in my dream?” It was Applejack
“What do you mean in your dream? This is my dream. Huh. If we’re each in each other’s dreams, then our dreams must’ve connected somehow.
“How did that happen?”
“I don’t know, but you did fall asleep in my bed, right? Didn’t Fluttershy do the same thing?” I look around the room.
“She sure did, but where is she?” Applejack jumps up on the couch and sits down.
I sit back down on the couch next to her. “She may not be asleep ye-“
I got cut off by the sound of something falling down the stairs. AJ and I look over at the stairs in time to see Fluttershy land at the bottom.
“There she is” We run over to her and help her up. “You okay, Fluttershy?”
“Umm...yes. I’m...fine.” She stumbles a little when I let her go. “How did I get here? And...why are you in my dream?”
“I don’t know how this happened, but our dreams have been connected together into one dream.” I’m still wondering how this dream is so normal. “There’s not really anytime to explain. Nightmare Moon could appear at any moment and I want to be ready. I was gonna leave the house and see what happens.”
I open the front door. All I see is white. I walk out with AJ and Fluttershy onto the front step. The door starts closing as soon as Fluttershy stops next to me. I try to catch the door from closing, but I don’t make it. I reopen the door, but there’s nothing there, just...darkness.
“Um...what’s going on here?” I turn back to the ponies. “This is really different than last time.”
“Should we go through the door?” AJ looks raring to go.
“Um...I...I don’t think we should.” She backs away from the door, almost falling off the step.
“Come on, Fluttershy, where else could we possibly go? If we go through the door, it might take us somewhere.”
“Oh...okay...I just...hope nothing bad happens while we’re in there.”
“Fluttershy, it’s completely dark in there, besides the stars. Something’s bound to happen to us.”
“Guys, quit talkin’ and let’s go!” Applejack starts going toward the door.
Before I have a chance to enter, something drags me into the void and I black out. When I come to, I’m just falling. I look around and see the stars in the same formation as when I met Nightmare Moon the first time. I look around and see AJ, still knocked out, falling, but at a fair distance from me. Same thing goes for Fluttershy. I’m starting to think that the door was the door to the interdimensional rift. Since it’s all dark and space-like, Nightmare Moon must’ve somehow created the rift to get rid of the ponies. But, Spike was sucked through also so she must’ve not found a way to close it correctly. I’m wondering all this when Fluttershy starts stiffing.
“Hey, Fluttershy, I think I’ve figured out what’s going on here.”
“Wha?... Huh? Waaaaaa!” (Imagine her usual scream volume)
“Fluttershy! Get a hold of yourself! We’re just falling. It’s not like we’re going to hit something.”
“But...We’re falling! What’s not to be scared of?”
“It’s just a dream. We’ll be fine.”
That’s all I get in before I notice the stars moving like they did before. Applejack starts waking up. When she see the stars, she freaks out also.
“Mark? Wh...What’s going on?
“I think Nightmare Moon is coming back for me.”
Fluttershy and AJ look at me. “What are you talking about?” AJ flips over so she’s falling back first.
I hear a voice in my head. “I have you right where I need you. How can you be such a foal to fall into my trap?”
“I didn’t know it was a trap!”
AJ and Fluttershy must’ve not heard the voice because I hear AJ say, “What are you talking about? This is a trap? What’s gonna happen to us?”
“Listen to me girls, try to wake up, escape from this void. I’ll find my own way ou-“ That’s all I could say before I got pulled further into the darkness, away from the ponies.
What is my brain doing to me, pulling me around everywhere? I’m beginning to think it’s not just my mind travelling around this place, but my soul itself. I keep getting pulled deeper. Then everything just stops. I’m sitting in space with nothing happening. Then Nightmare Moon starts appearing.
She starts walking toward me. Well, whatever you would call walking in space
“You little foal. How could you fall for such an obvious trap? And you call yourself a guardian. Hah! I laugh at your foolishness!
“Okay, okay, I get the point that I was stupid. What are you going to do with me?” My heart starts pounding against my chest.
“I’m going to keep you here forever! Those Elements were lucky to escape from me, but now that I have one of the Trinkets of Trinity guardians, there’s no way you can stop the rift before I finish my business.”
“And what would that be?”
“Silence! Why would I tell you? I’m going to imprison your soul in this rift so you can’t do anything to stop me!
With that, I felt something squishing me smaller and smaller. I could feel my mind being locked up along with the rest of me.
“Now you’re stuck in this place forever!”
She pulls me along with her. Her ways of travel are peculiar and Steve Magnet’s description is pretty accurate. She flies around the void, using the empty stars as jump points. I have no idea where she’s headed, but it feels like we’re not going to get there soon. My mind is locked up, but I still think about what is happening outside this realm of mysteriousness.