//------------------------------// // Dreams Can Suck // Story: Total Eclipse // by Somedudeatemytaco //------------------------------// In the end, the best thing to do, I thought, is to just talk to Dash, see what's wrong. So I went up to Rainbow Dash and asked, "Hey, Rainbow Dash, are you alright?" She seemed a bit startled when I spoke to her, she faced me and replied, "Oh, hi Hector, what are you doing up? "Well, I don't usually sleep around this time. If I may, I'd like to ask you the same question." "Umm, I was up to see if there were any monsters out here, you know, just in case." "Come on Rainbow, I heard you, the truth please?" "Alright, just promise not to tell?" At this point it took all I had not to Pinkie promise. Instead, I just agreed. "Well, here goes," Dash starts explaining, “You know how when the other guys were up, I show that I'm not scared, that this place looks awesome. I'm trying to show them that there's nothing to be afraid of. But really I'm scared, I'm scared because we don't know this place, it could be dangerous, and we don't have the slightest clue where we are. We don't even know where Nightmare Moon is! I can't stop thinking, what if we never go home? What happens if we fail?" "Look, I totally understand you, Rainbow, even though I’ve been here my entire life; I've never actually done something to the magnitude of running away from my parents. I'm scared too, I'm scared of what will happen if I don't save Mia, my little sister, I'm terrified that I can't stop thinking about if I've made the right decision by doing this, I mean what if my parents never forgive me? What if I end up being gone too, how would they be? But despite all this, I keep a cool face on, just like you, we pretend we have no fear to inspire others, when in reality; we're just as scared as they are. When I first saw you guys, I didn't know what to think, at first, I thought you were with Nightmare Moon, if I'd had gone with that feeling, I would be doing this by myself." "Yeah, you’re right. Hey, I'm sorry that I called you weird a while ago, no hard feelings?" Said Rainbow as she raised her hoof for a hoofbump. "Totally." I replied as I returned the hoofbump. (Check that off the list of things to do before I die!) "Besides, you get used to it after a while." "What do you mean by that?" Shoot. That was meant to be said in my thoughts. "Well," I sigh, "In the years I've lived, I've come to know something: if you don't act in a particular way, it’s considered weird, and I'd rather be myself than be someone I'm not, thank you very much. So yeah I'm used to being called weird," "Hmm... sounds rough, well, I think you're awesome, if that helps" Rainbow Dash just called me awesome; I don't need approval from ANYONE ELSE ANYMORE!!!! "Yeah, it does, Rainbow. Now I don't want to see you like this anymore alright?" "Alright, but just one more thing I want to talk about, you talk about Mia all the time. You even ran away from your family to find her, but why?" "The truth is, I already lost Mia, and I feel like that's my fault. If I brought my family with me, and if something happened to them, I just can't cope with it." "That's cool, caring for them like that, well; I think it's time that you and I hit the hay." "Sounds good to me," at that moment, I decided to get bold, "Hug?" "Sure, why not! Just don't tell anypony about this or else!" "Deal!" It was complicated, seeing the fact that I was almost twice the height of Rainbow Dash, but eventually we figured it out. I got down to my knees, and we hugged. Oh my goodness, getting a hug, hoofbump, AND being called "awesome" by Rainbow Dash, if only I can get my sister, I can die a happy person. Afterward, I said goodnight to Dash and laid down on the ground. I had no idea how I was going to sleep, so I just closed my eyes, and hoped for the best. *** It was surprising to find it was still night when I woke up, apparently the fire that we made was still going on. Something felt very wrong, I just felt it. Feeling nervous, I call out to the girls. None of them responded. I called them out again, but still no dice. “You should realize by now that they can not hear you,” It was the last pony that I wanted to see. "What do you mean they can't hear me? What did you do to them?" "Me? Do something? Why would you think that?" Nightmare Moon mocked faking an innocent tone. "Not this time, believe it or not, the fact is, you're dreaming. Do you not believe me, see for yourself." And so I did, looking around the forest, at first I didn't notice anything, but what I did see blew my mind. I saw myself. I was sleeping, so Nightmare Moon was right, I was in my own dream! "Okay, you win," I tell Nightmare Moon, "so, why are you here." "I thought it would be obvious by now, but I guess I can tell you. You want your sister back, but yet, you do not even know where I have taken her! I am just here to hint you, and so here it is, where I have your sister is, the happiest place in the world." At first I thought that this villain was losing her marbles. But as she began leaving, she started humming, it sounded familiar. As I was trying to match the humming to a song that I knew, it hit me, she was humming It's A Small World But why would Nightmare Moon take her there? "Wait," I shouted at Nightmare Moon, "Why there?" And then I realized something else. "And how do you know I want my sister back?" Nightmare Moon laughed, "I am the night Hector, I see everything." That sent chills down my spine. First off, I never told Nightmare Moon my name or the fact that Mia was taken by her, what else does she know? "Oh, and by the way," Nightmare Moon added, " I recommend you get there quickly, your sister's crying is getting very annoying." "What did you say?" I threatened her. I'm fine with anybody picking on me, I can take that, but when you mess with my family, I'll make you swallow those words back up. "Oh, getting angry now are we?" Nightmare Moon taunted. "I'm fine with you invading my dream, honestly I don't get enough of them. But how DARE YOU mock Mia, especially when YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO HER!!!" "And what are you going to do about it?" That's it, this horse sickened me. Without even thinking, I just blindly charged at Nightmare Moon. She didn't even flinch; all she did was raise me up with her magic. It felt like floating, except without any gravity and no way to move, basically you’re frozen, oh, and did I mention that it makes you feel sick? The worst part was, no matter how much I struggled, I couldn’t escape, man, why do bad guys get all the cool stuff! “Now now, did you honestly think that would work? Well that just proves that humans are more idiotic than I thought.” “Well, that’s the thing about us humans, when we set our minds to something, we (most of the time) commit to it, in my case, getting my sister back from you. So what you call stupidity, I call determination!” Using whatever strength I had left, I tried to move myself, even a finger would suffice. Eventually I did it, I broke Nightmare Moon’s spell, and I am glad that I did, otherwise that speech I gave would have been the corniest thing to ever come out, and I would have looked like an idiot. As I fell on the ground, I could tell by Nightmare Moon’s face that she didn’t expect that from me. “How do you like them apples?” Nightmare Moon tried to recover by saying, “This does not mean that you have any advantage over me, this is the dream realm, and you just managed to manipulate your dream that is all, that is all.” As she turned to leave, I had one more thing to say, “Hey, Nightmare Moon, you said I can manipulate my dreams, right” “Yes, why do you need me to ack-DO NOT DARE PERFORM WHAT I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO DO!” “You came in my dream your way, now you’ll leave my way” “I ASSURE YOU, YOU WILL REGRET THIS DECISION YOU INSOLENT- In the video game Skyrim, they have this particular shout called “Fus Ro Dah". For those of you who don’t know what the heck that is, it basically launches you brutally, and that’s exactly what I did to Nightmare Moon As she was becoming harder to see, I started thinking., yeah, I probably am going to regret what I just did, but I'll be lying to myself if I said it wasn't worth it! After that, I woke up. *** Waking up sucks, especially when you know that in your dream, you could have done practically anything, but such is life. I woke up around the same time Twilight and the others did, which was pretty convenient. Then I remembered, I know where to go, I just needed to find out how to get there. "Hey girls, I know you guys just woke up, but I need to do something really important right now, just give me a couple of minutes and I'll be back, I promise. Here, I'll leave my backpack here so you know I'll come back." And with that, I left without even letting the girls comprehend what I just said. *** Once I got out of the forest, which felt like forever, I finally found a place with service! I was surprised that my phone still worked after what happened last night. So first, I see the news, so I can get a bigger picture on what was going on. Apparently I wasn't the only one who's sister has been taken by Nightmare Moon. Apparently, little boys and girls all over California were taken last night, and as far as I know, no one knows who Nightmare Moon is. Anyone who says she is from My Little Pony got dismissed. The government's "official" explanation is that Nightmare Moon is an alias for someone or something. It's amazing how stupid people can be sometimes. After checking on the news, I searched for directions for the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland. Coming back to camp, I see that everything is normal, the girls were all talking to each other, all except Fluttershy, whim I couldn't find. "Ah! There you are Hector," I hear Applejack say, "hope you don't me askin' where ya scurried off to earlier thin mornin'." "Well, you'll never believe this, but I know where Nightmare Moon is, and how to get there!" "That's great news, but how did you find out?" Twilight asked" "Simple," I said as I pulled out my phone, “I used this." Now I'm not lying to you, believe me when I say that all of them ohhhed at the same time, it was just too awesome and funny. After laughing for quite a while, I continue, "With this nifty thing, I can search up anything I want, from news, books, (Twilight seemed especially interested when I said books.) directions, just about anything. But it has to have a signal, so that's why I left, I had to get a signal to get the information. Hey, speaking of things missing, where's Fluttershy?" Rarity answered, "She is just over there." Following where Rarity pointed her hoof, I walked toward that part of the woods. The farther I walked, the more clearly I could hear Fluttershy, "You all are so adorable, you want some more? Here" It was obvious that Fluttershy was with some animals, I knew that without a doubt, but what exactly was she giving them that the animals wanted more of? As I caught sight of Fluttershy, I found out. The animals were taking all the food from my backpack! "Fluttershy!" I cried out as I quickly ran to her "What are you doing!" As soon as I shouted, all the animals scurried across different directions, with my food. Well, at least I still have my backpack! "Oh I'm so sorry Hector! They all looked at your backpack, and I just wanted to make them happy, I know I shouldn't have looked inside, I'm sorry." At this point, Fluttershy was on the ground, her head tucked in between her two front legs so she couldn't see me. As I was trying my best not to get a heart attack from cuteness overload, (I'm not sure if you can get an actual heart attack, but who cares, this is Fluttershy we're talking about.) I said, "It's alright Fluttershy, it isn't your fault. In your defense, I never did tell you couldn't look inside, and besides, the animals in my world are very mischievous." "Are you sure it's alright? What about all the things inside?" "I'm fine Fluttershy, honest. Let's look at the bright side of this, I have more space to put more stuff in." "You're nice." "Thanks Fluttershy, in all honesty, when you have a little sister, you need all the patience you can get!" That seemed to make Fluttershy laugh, so I told her that we should be heading back to camp, and so off we went. *** "Thank you ever so much for the sleeping bag Hector, it made it so much easier to sleep last night." "Anytime Rarity" I say as I pack the sleeping bag into my backpack. The girls meanwhile, were having breakfast, at least they had they going for them, so I kept myself busy by reading over how to get to Disneyland, by car it would have been an hour, by foot however, you're talking about a full day. Applejack must have noticed me and my lack of food, since she said, "You alright there partner? You sure you don't want anythin'?" "I'm fine Applejack, thanks for asking though. " "Not even an apple, you'll be missin' out!" Now that tempted me, an apple from Sweet Apple Acres, that was something you were not offered every day "Alright fine," I said, as Applejack tossed me an apple, I (attempted to) tease her by saying, “I’ve had many apples in my life, I don't see how this one will be any diff-" I almost dropped the apple from deliciousness overload. I'm not even sure that deliciousness is even a real word, I don't care, our apples suck, this was amazing! "Oh my goodness!" Was all that I could say. "This...this is the best apple I've ever had!" Applejack replied with a smug face, "Yer darn right it is." Twilight said from out of the blue, "Hector, look at your apple!" "Okay Twilight, so what, it's just an apple." But then I realized that was the point, it looked like an Earthly apple, when clearly, it was Equestrian! "Whoa! How'd that happen!" Suddenly, I had an idea. "Here, Rainbow Dash, catch! " I said as I threw my apple up in the air. Rainbow Dash immediately flew up in the air, and caught the apple, just as planned. When Dash came back to the ground, she said, "Was that supposed to be hard, because that was WAY too easy!" "Just look at the apple, Rainbow." "So what, it's just an apple, why do you want me to-WHOA!" The apple was back to looking cartoonish "Interesting, " Twilight said, picking up the apple using her magic, "It seems that physical objects such as this apple, change their appearance whenever either you or one of us makes direct contact with it." It seemed like only Twilight understood what she said, sine everyone just look flat out confused, Twilight sighed, saying, "If we touch things, it changes,. If he touches something,(Twilight was pointing at me) it'll change too!" "Look Twilight," I said taking the apple from her, "this seems interesting and all, but I'm starving!" With that I took another bite of appley goodness, reverting it back to its Earthly form. "Moving on, we do have a long way to go if we want to get to Nightmare Moon, if we start right now, we can make it there two days tops.” “Umm Hector,” Twilight said with a concerned look on her face, “you might want to hang on those words.” “Why, what’s going on?” “Our Elements of Harmony are gone!"