//------------------------------// // Number One Assistant PART 2 // Story: The Great Fandom Man! // by Jake Witt //------------------------------// Me and Number One sat at a coffee table, waiting for our scheduled meeting with General Elmo. I began to fill in some more details as we sat, sipping tea, "I placed Spike in his basket downstairs- Twilight at one point hunted him with a tennis racket." "Well, what happened next?" (A few days ago) I learned that since we have a Displaced with "Inside Out" emotions I could enter bother her dreams and mind, but that last part would be different. Unlike mind reading spells I'm actually traveling INSIDE the world of Twilight's mind. Since the book gum was shoving memory of the book in her head to memorize, I would begin there. As soon as I entered her mind, I found that it also seemed to have Psychonaut physics too. ("Meaning?" Number One asked in real time.) When I entered her head, her mind had a cube shaped world to prevent me from going further. I had to answer question only she knew... and somehow my guessing was satisfactory for her. Then I went on a mission in a slightly messy giant Golden Oaks to find ten mind keys to get past barriers and had to complete side quests for a town of Smarty Pants, the best one being Smarty Pants Celestia. ("What was it? ... What? We have time.") I had to use Smarty Pants Pinkie Pie's party canon to be shot into a banana farm to defeat Nightmare Moon... who turned into Smarty Pants Woona and Smarty Pants Luna. Double the lunar princess! With a Luna on both Celestia's sides I left Smartyville and entered a unknown place that looked like a wreck. At the entrance, Spike slept in a golden basket with silky sheets. Being a... well... being a dreams, I took out a bloogle horn and began to play it worse than Pinkie, waking Mind Spike. "Who dares disturb my slumber!" he bellowed, growing in size, but not changing shape. I pulled out my duel disc, summoning fake Twilight. "Twilight?! Hoooooow are you here?! You're supposed to watch the information wave!" "And you're supposed to be cleaning this place!" fake Twilight exclaimed. Spike gulped, realizing he was caught dozing off. He gave a salute as a broom materialized in his claw, "I'll get started, now!" "Thank you, Spike! I knew I could count on my number one assistant!" she replied as I sneaked past him. As soon as I reached the next checkpoint, I was snapped back to real Golden Oaks when I was tackled by a rainbow colored something. Rainbow Dash stood on me as her face was in mine, "Fandom! You have guts to enter town!" "Nooo! I was progressing!" I complained as I returned to normal, my ultimatrix recharging. "OK, never mind. I would still be stopped there..." "You couldn't hear us apparently!" Cortana sarcastically informed. I was about to be in a fight when Twilight stopped Rainbow, "Wooow... my head hurts..." Suddenly she began to spasm. I quickly summoned my keyblade, pushing Rainbow off, and locking the advanced mental signals from the body as placed her in her bed, rolling her up like a burrito. "What are you doing to her?!" Rainbow demanded. "Well, I'm slowly fixing her, but since my current progress isn't good enough I had to lock her mind from her body in a way its almost like she's sleeping-" "You killed her?!" "No. She's very alive just... dumb until I can continue my adventure." We then looked over to Twilight, making noises and rolling in her confined space. "Can you bring a storm cloud? I need to get to work." "Me? Help you poke inside my friend's brain?!" Rainbow got in my face again. I raised an eyebrow, "Do you want to join?" She hovered back, tilting her head, "What?" Long story short she brought all of her friends... who can now wield keyblades because of Dash... who has a keyblade for unknown reasons. The first time I learned RD could do that was during Season 2 when I challenged her to a Xiaolin Showdown. Anyway, this time I used a combination form of Princess Luna and Pesky Dust to bring the five friends with me. We had no problem sticking together... except for when we came across Mind Spike again, who stopped working to cat call Rarity... which is out of character, but then again I never hear Spike say "Who dares enter Golden Oaks Library" in the show. We were almost tossed out at the same door when I caught Spike, pulling him to us. "Nice for you to join us," I greeted in a high pitched Luna voice- no joke. If Luna sucked on helium, this would be her voice. Oh yeah, I look like Pesky Dust, but with starry hair, navy wings and horn, and I wore a light blue tunic. ("I don't care what you look like!" Number One stated.) I told Spike to wait outside and make sure Twilight is resting, Fluttershy left as well to join him. Picking the lock, we opened up Twilight's emotion HQ. It looked like her old library in a way. Upon entering, I was tossed to a wall by a short, red, angry unicorn wearing a tie. Her cutiemark resembled Twilight's mark, but it was on fire. She got in my face, mane and tail on fire, "Who or what the buck are you?!" I looked over to a blue Twilight with glasses and her mane in a bun, wearing a purple sweater, and reading a manual. She looked over to me, sadly sighing, "Good luck, sir..." I was then tossed again, noticing a yellow alicorn with wavy blue and purple mane and tail greet Twilight's friends as Rarity commented on the flowing blue dress she wore. When I fell, I startled a filly Twilight with a messed up mane. "You seriously like that? I could use more gems befitting of a... princess," a purple unicorn said as she joined the group. Yellow alicorn decided to fly around, introducing everyone, "I'm joy. I like reading books and being with friends and family. Over there is Sadness, I keep telling her there's more to life than reading books, but Disgust- who is next to me -doesn't want to disappoint the princess when she needs us to study. Disgust also prevents Twilight from being poisoned... or eating quesadillas. I don't see what's wrong." "Drop it, Joy," Disgust said, shivering. "They're just so cheezy!" "Over there beating up the intruder is Anger. She isn't a fan of Pinkie's antic's or Rainbow's destruction of the library-" I was suddenly forgotten as Anger tackled Rainbow out of the sky. "-because it's bad and she's sensitive about these things." Suddenly I was levitated again, being tossed around with Rainbow Dash. "So what brings you here? Also, do you know why Twilight cant feel anything?" Pinkie took charge, "We want our friend back!" Sadness trotted up, sighing, "I saw Fandom the Random use his key on us when systems shut down." I got a good buck in the head from Anger at that. "He's trying to fix Twilight... but I doubt it will work..." Anger dropped us, walking over to their library where she returned with a dictionary and beat me over the head with it. "Why would it not, Darling?" Rarity asked. "I just don't have it in me to keep faith..." I explained my plan, getting approval from everyone, but Anger. The plan is simple, locate the book gum info and cram it into Twilight's long term memory... which looked like a glowing library. "Nopony touch anything. These are Twilight's long term memory-" I heard Pinkie gasp a third time today. One was entering Twilight's mind, seeing "Friendship Island" where the elements of harmony formed a tree with their faces sticking out, smiling as the centerpiece, and the memory book she found. "What is it, sugarcube?" Apple Jack asked. "Twilight forgot Celestia's birthday!" she replied, before forcing it back into long term memory. I pulled the book from her grasp, placing it on the ground, "Its still here, she might remember it eventually. Besides, how many birthdays do you need to find them annoying?" "She had a short party yesterday," Rarity informed. "I doubt-" I cut her off there, "Anyway, we don't have much time!" I'm under oath to not say what happened next, but I will tell you that we found Smarty Pants and he led us to the book gum area where we decided to destroy the useless and already known information that was entering her mind. Rainbow summoned her keyblade "Rainbolt" and took on the Daring Doo books. Rarity summoned her keyblade "Rough Diamond" and took on the fashion books, eliminating her competition. Pinkie's keyblade "Bubblewrap on a Stick" was tossed through the air, making popping noises on the animal facts and fan fiction. ...yes, somebody made fan fiction book gum. I had to help out in destroying the endless OTPs and black and red alicorn OCs. Apple Jack took out her "Apple Core" keyblade, taking out the "Fancy Mathematics" since Twi already mastered them. My primary target was every Earth reference I could and knew find. We spent the rest of our time there doing that. As soon as it was partially clear, we were forced back out and my ultimatrix died again. "Again!" Rainbow declared. I rose my keyblade, unlocking Twilight's higher brain function and watched. "...Ooooow! What hit me...?"