//------------------------------// // VI // Story: Twilights Journey: Escape Equestria // by Merotik //------------------------------// [Twilights POV] I awoke to nothing, absolutely nothing. Everything was gone, the forest, the animals, the trees, all of it was gone. Replaced with darkness. I was confused, I could have sworn I was in a forest just now. Where did everything go? "Where am I? Its dark, I can't see! Where are my friends! Where did they go? Please, somepony help me . . . I'm scared . . . " (No pony to help you). "Who said that! Who's there!" (No pony to help you . . . you have no friends . . . you are alone). "Who are you! Show yourself!" Slowly, a gray light appeared in front of me. When the light was gone, there stood another me, except, this me was different. She looked depressed, and her color was faded. Tear streaks could be seen from underneath her eyes. "Who are you? What are you?" (All gone . . . all of them . . . gone) said the other me. "Who's gone?" (Our friends). "Why? What's happen to them?" (They abandoned us . . . because of him). "Who abandoned us? What are you talking about? Who are you!" I was starting to get annoyed, this other me wasn't giving me a clear answer. (Him . . . the spirit who changed them . . . the spirit who changed us). The other me had a fresh wave of tears fall from her eyes. "Spirit? What spi-" I paused, as memories flashed before my eyes. Cotton candy clouds, the elements of harmony missing, a giant maze, the library burning, Spike leaving. When the memories finished, I collapsed to the ground and cried. How could I have forgotten. I failed, I tried to use the elements of harmony to stop Discord and failed. And everything just seem to get worse from there. Fluttershy setting my room on fire, me yelling at Spike, Spike leaving me . . . how did I forget this? . . . WHERE AM I!!! "What is this place?" (Inside your head). "My head . . . wait, you said that Discord changed my friends and us, does that mean that your . . . are you an opposite version of me?" The other me hung her head low, and started crying. (Soon, I'll be the only version of you). "Only version, what do you mean? Are you trying to get rid of me?" The other me shook her head, (I don't want you to go). The other me collapsed and sobbed. I lifted myself to my hoofs and walked over to the other me. I sat next to her and placed my foreleg around her. "I'm not going anywhere, if you can help me I can try to understand what's happening right now. I know you must be scared, but I'm scared too. If you can help me, we can try to find a way out of this". The other me looked up to my eyes, then rested her head against my chest. (I'm scared). "Me too". I began gently petting her mane, trying to comfort her. "You said we were inside my head, can you explain what you mean by that?" The other me sniffed and nodded. (I do not know why, but it seems that you are in control of your true self when you are asleep). "My true self?" (Yes, your true self. The way you are acting now, kind, smart, friendly, this is your true self). "And you said I'm in control when I'm asleep, right?" Other me nodded. "Then who's in control when I'm awake?" Other me was silent for a moment, before slowly saying, (I am). "You are?" (That is correct). "And when you say "in control" what do you mean exactly?" (I mean in control of our bodies, in more specific terms, your body). "My body? But how can you control it if I'm right here?" (Because that is the way his magic works). "Who's magic?" (The spirit of chaos of course. His magic can change a pony to become their opposite selves. Once they are changed, they will no longer act the same, nor will they want to). "Why wouldn't a pony want to change back? If their evil then how come they wouldn't want to be good again?" (I said they change to their opposite selves, I did not say they turn evil). "But their opposite selves would be evil, right?" (Do I look evil to you). I sighed, "no, you don't. But if your my opposite self, how come your not acting the way our friends did. Once they changed into their opposite selves they started acting like jerks!" (Not all of them). "What do you-" (Remember Applejack? Sure she was a liar, but for the most part she didn't do anything wrong but lying. And even Rarity, she may have acted like a jerk but she wasn't nearly as bad as the others, she was just greedy). "I hadn't thought about that before, but what about the others? They didn't act very nice, especially Fluttershy. (I have a theory, and I'm quite certain that its true. I believe that Discords magic only affects the ponies personality, not their morality, unless their morality plays a key role to their personality. Allow me explain, all of our friends had their personalities changed therefore causing them to act oppositely to the way they normally act. However, because Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie's personalities involved their morality, they changed to become jerks. Fluttershy is the element of kindness after all, so its no surprised that she would be evil. As for Pinkie Pie, I assume that because her personality involves making other ponies happy, she'll wind up doing the opposite and make ponies unhappy. All in all, your personality will change, but if you are kind then you can remain kind unless your personality mixes with your morality). "Hmmm . . . I see what you mean. That explains why Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were the worst out of all of them. But what about you? If your supposed to be my opposite then shouldn't you be acting more . . . I don't know, stupid" (I said their personalities are altered-). "But that is my personality. I won't say I'm a genius or anything but I really like to read and learn. So wouldn't something like that change?" (It already has. Your love of reading and learning is beginning to change. This won't make you stupid however, your personality changing isn't going to take away everything you've already learned. But your lucky, the way your personality is. It seems that no matter how strong Discords magic gets, it will only be able to do minor damage to you). "What do you mean?" (Well, first off your personality has changed, but not by much. You're still a smart, kind, and strategic unicorn. There is little change to you because your still in the early stages of becoming "Discorded"). "Discorded?" (Its a term I came up with, it means when Discords magic has changed you to your opposite. You can tell when a pony is Discorded when their color fades. Your color has faded but it is still purple, that means that your at a very early stage of being Discorded thus causing little change to your personality- personality). "But what about my friends, they're color had changed gray last time I remembered" (Yes that is true- true- true, your friends colors are worse- worse- worse- {They left you} then just merely having faded- faded- faaaaad-d-d-d {You don't need them} AAAAAGH!!!). Other me screamed and pushed me away. She stood to her hoofs and started shaking. "Are you alright? What just happened?" (I think your waking up! Your subconscious is pushing us back- back- back- into reality-ty-ty-tyyyyyyy {Your friends are evil}). As Discorded me spoke, she would disappear and reappear quickly. Like a dying light bulb blinking its last volts. Her words would loop as she tried to speak. "What's happening to you?" (My thoughts are being scrambled- scrambled- scrambled- my thoughts are being scr-scr-scr- as your subconscious- conscious- conscious- everything's returning- ning- ning). "Is there anything I- I- I can do to help?" I clasped my hoofs to my mouth, having realized I started doing it as well. (No, you can't stop it- it- it- you can't stop- you can't stop- you can't stop- {Your world will burn in chaos} you- you- you). Discorded me screamed, then disappeared. "Wait! Where a- a- a- a- whats happening!?!" I tried to scream but no- no- no words came out. I could feel myself being pulled out of my own he- he- he- head. I tried to focus bu- bu- but it was no- no- no {foolish girl, you have lost}. Help me- me- me- me- PLEASE HELP!!! 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Wouldn't you agree? - D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Twilight awoke in a cold sweat, panting. She felt as if she had a terrible nightmare, but couldn't remember anything. She lifted her head and observed her surroundings. The sun was up, the wind had stopped, and all of the clouds were gone leaving a bright and sunny sky. Twilight sighed with relief at the comfortable change of weather. For the first time in what felt like days, Twilight felt relaxed. Twilight rested her head back onto her saddle bag, allowing the gears in her head to start turning. Five seconds later, she bolted from the ground and ran to the dirt road. She looked into the direction that lead to Pony Ville and squinted. She didn't see anything coming her way, however, the chaos had become close enough for her to hear screaming, and a psychotic laugh. "Oh no, I over slept!" said Twilight. She quickly ran back to the clump of trees she had slept in and snatched her saddle bag. She placed it onto her back and ran over to the dirt road. 'If I hurry, I may still have a chance to out run the storm' thought Twilight, as she galloped full speed down the road.