Narration Sequence Alpha 01010100011001010110000101101100 Initiate
Well, I pretended to be unconscious at the very least, the fact that I couldn't actually be knocked out posing a problem. I was a damn good actor though.
Umm, Sylph, not to worry you but something just happened.
What do you mean by something happened, you didn't push any buttons this time, did you, I thought bitterly to my author.
Umm, no? It's just that...the narrator's changed. It's switched from whatever it was to...Alpha 01010100011001010110000101101100.
I simply lay there as the guards or whoever they were carried me off to wherever the hell they were taking me, thinking about my situation and what the hell was going on. I jumped somewhere, or rather sometime, and not only once but twice, and now the narrator's done changed. And then there was teacher question I would refuse to acknowledge. Why could Gilda hurt me while nobody else had ever been able to accomplish so simple an act, not even these goons, one of whom had just hit me in the back of the head with something. Nothing was making any sense and it hurt my head. I let out a sigh full of my pent up confusion and instantly stifled it as we jolted to a stop.
"Seems like somepony's faking about their condition," one of the guards said, the voice female.
"I'm kind of immortal," I admitted, turning my head to face who had talked. "So may I ask who exactly is arresting me?"
"I wouldn't exactly call it arresting, I'd say something more akin to escorting with force," she said, giving me a small smile that flashed some moonlight off her fangs.
"I see, so where am I being escorted to," I inquired, awfully calm despite my situation.
It's the new narrator making you act this way.
"You're being escorted to Lieutenant Gilda of Princess Luna's Night Guard," she said.
"Right," I said, "and she knew I'd be here how exactly? Because I what to admit it but not even I knew I would be here."
"I'm not at liberty to reveal that information sir," she said.
"When did I become a sir," I asked.
"You were honorably knighted for assisting lady Gilda in her mission to obtain information that helped us win the Zebranian war," she said, making me pause before answering.
"I am extremely confused right now."
"Don't worry sir, your old friend can fill you in on the details when we get to the castle."
Okay, this just turned from weird to completely backwards. Here, let me try something. Narration Sequence Alpha 0100011101110010011001010110010101101110 Activate
I waited for something to happen and simply thought, Absolutely nothing happened.
Wrong, guess who's narrator now.
I dunno, who?
What I just put in was binary code for 'Green'. Before that it was 'Teal', which actually explains a bit and yet confuses me even more. I can only assume that before that it was 'Purple'.
What makes you say that?
It's...something that happened a few hours ago.
I decided not to ask anymore and simply laid my head back down, closing my eyes and waiting to reach the castle so I could see 'my old friend' who I'd only seen twice before and who still confused the fuck out of me.
"Sir Sylph. So the legends are true," a dark figure greeted me at the castle.
That would be Princess Luna.
"I'm surprised that there are legends," I admitted, now walking on my own.
"Lady Gilda told us a little about you," Luna said. "In fact, we thought her a bit mad."
"Well how long was I gone," I asked, fearing the answer a bit.
"From what lady Gilda says, one year to the date."
I felt a queasy feeling to trough my gut. "A y-year?"
"Yes, I realize that is is a long time, but don't worry, nobody holds it against you."
"'Holds it against me'? What is there to hold against me, something that happens at random and that I can't control?"
"No, you misunderstood me I just me-"
"Just...please take me to Gilda."
My escorts nodded and proceeded to lead me past Luna who had a crestfallen look on her face and I offered a small sorry as I passed her. I felt a small glimmer of something as she raised her head and gave me a small and forgiving smile as my escorts and I rounded the corner, arriving at Gilda's room a few silent minutes later.
I entered te room and within seconds a punch landed on my jaw. "That's for just disappearing on me back at Zecora's," Gilda said before pulling me into a hug.
"First, ow, second, why the sudden friendliness," I asked as I hesitantly returned the hug. "Last I checked you wanted, if not to strangle me, then at least to punch me repeatedly."
"A year can change a person's perspective on certain things," she explained, linking her claws behind my neck.
"Woah, woah, woah, slow down there," I said, dropping from under her claws and floating away in a short but quick burst. "What the hell's gotten into you?"
Must have been the old narrator, things have been off since he took over, even if it was for half a chapter.
He spoke out loud this time so Gilda could hear and she gave me a confused look, "Old narrator?"
"Well the first narrator got replaced by another one and then he got forcibly replaced by Josh," I explained.
"So wait, what does that mean," she asked.
"It means that you don't actually feel the way you think you do," I said. "Wait, Josh, as the narrator can you change the story?"
I don't know, maybe. Are we both thinking the same thing?
"Please tell me we're going to change her back to normal."
No, I was going to open a chain of restaurants in Equestria.
"Okay, okay, no need to get all sarcastic."
"But...what if I don't want to change," Gilda said.
Oh no, just another link in the chain of problems I'm creating.
"Gilda, this isn't you, trust me," I said, floating down to her and levitating a few inches off the ground.
"But what if I like being this way," she said.
"You mean false love."
"It's not false, you helped me, more than you know."
"Gilda...if you want to stay this way then I suppose that I can't ask you to change. Although, don't expect me to return your feelings."
"Okay then Sylph, I suppose that's fair."
So wait, we're just going to let her stay like this?
"Well we can't force her to change," I argued.
Well by technicality we cou-
"NO," I argued. "We're not forcing anything on anyone, especially not a friend."
"...thank you Sylph," Gilda said quietly.
"No problem," I said, floating around her and settling to her left. "So...what do you do here?"
"Nothing much actually, I just send out patrols and command Luna's Night Guard," Gilda said
"Sounds interesting enough," I admitted.
She was about to say something else but cut off as something crashed outside the door, causing the two of us to jump. I was the first to recover and dashed towards the door, lifting one hand and setting it alight, yanking the door open and preparing for something. Sitting outside the doorway in a heap were my escorts and Princess Luna.
"Why in the world were you guys spying on us," I asked, letting the flame go out and dropping my arm.
"We would never," Luna said, trying to hide a laugh and sound offended at the same time.
"Pff, whatever," I said. "You can't act as though royalty ar-"
That was when the crash we needed to worry about happened.