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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Reincarnations and Nightmares 
// by trinidream 
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	Quick stood up on his hooves, and when he did, he found himself swaying and almost falling to the ground again. “I don’t understand… What do you me-“
“Hush.” Night put a hoof over his mouth as two bat silhouettes flew overhead. 
He could just make out what Quick mumbled under his hoof, “Hey look there’s your friends!”
As the two batponies passed, they seemed to turn their heads down towards them. Then, it seemed like they began to dive.
“Oh no…” Vision whispered. He seemed to tap something on his ear, which seemed to be a black earring. 
“Oh no what?” Quick looked at where Vision was looking and the batponies were diving straight to their location. They landed with a sliding screech and regarded the two ponies with cold glances.
“We are going around this town looking for suspicious ones. Are thee suspicious?” They stared at them for a long while until Night coughed.
“No sirs. Just enjoying a beautiful night!” Night Vision had a huge smile and was waving his hoof about in such a way that just made him look ridiculous. It was then that Quick had noticed that Night Vision had the appearance of a Pegasus pony with a dark blue wing.
Quick had to laugh at that and one of the bat ponies reeled.
“What is the joke of the matter?” One of them asked.
Night slapped the unicorn and looked onwards at the two lunar guards. “Don’t mind him, he has uncontrollable laughter sometimes.”
The blue stallion glared at Night. “Why I oughtta-” He growled.
“Hail Nightmare Moon and all her glory.” Night interrupted smiling.
The bat ponies looked at Night Vision then took a final glance at Quick. “Come on brother, it is obvious that these ponies are still in the trance. Let us be going.”
When both guards took off Night’s smile faded and he turned back to Quick Glance. “Well, that went horribly…” Night trailed off.
“Uncontrollable laughter?” Quick growled.
“What? Normal ponies don’t laugh when they are entranced. It’s just not in the books.” The bat pony tapped his ear piece again and then he was back to batpony form. 
The stallion shook his head back and forth trying to adjust to the transformation that just took place twice now. “What is that?” He pointed to his ear piece.
“Oh?” He flickered his ear and then smirked at the stallion. “Just a simple accessory containing some transformation magic.” 
“Oh…” Quick repeated.
Night Vision watched as the unicorn stood there and as he did, he noticed a glimmer in his eyes that reminded him of Polaris. He couldn’t figure out why. “So, you don’t know who Polaris is?” He prodded.
“No, not a-” Then, it seemed like Quick held his head and then he swayed again. “What is that?” He rasped.
“What?”
“There’s these-” His voice cutoff and it seemed like he fainted again. 
“Quick?” Night trotted over and poked him with his hoof. However, it seemed like the pony was out cold. “These what?” He growled.
Night grunted and then fell to the ground letting the air whoosh out of him. Then, he noticed three other ponies coming up the dirt path. “You have got to be kidding me…” He trailed off looking at the passed out Quick.
He flapped his bat wings and got back on his hooves. “I guess we’re doing this again…” He rolled his eyes and then transferred Quick to his back. Then, he bolted into the air, however, seeing a Pegasus flying through the air he stopped mid-flight and the pony on his back inclined into the back of his neck from the brunt of the stop. Thankfully, he remembered to keep flapping his wings. Finding a nearby cloud, he tapped on the ear piece again and then flew off once his Pegasus form had took him over.
However, being a Pegasus didn’t stop him from getting the suspicious look from a rainbow-maned pegasus. Luckily, her eyes were also glazed over and she didn’t seem to care all that much about his “passenger.” 
Carrying the unicorn stallion to the base was too risky and he didn’t really have a home here in this pony town. His eyes darted to the stallion on his back. All he needed to do was find a raincloud and hit it to wake this guy up. He searched around for a gray cloud but it seemed like the Sun Celebration’s requirements for the day had cloud bursting involved. The skies were clear of any rainclouds from what he could see. Then, he spotted it: a fountain with a pony statue grazing the center of it. All he would need to do, is throw the stallion in it.
He flew over to the fountain, and although it wasn’t running at night, there was still a pool of water in the bottom of it. He gently took the stallion off of his back, sliding him gently down the slick feathers of his right wing and then he dragged the pony over to the fountain.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a pink earthpony watching him with wide eyes. He gave her a long glaring gaze and then she bounced off and went somewhere else. It wasn’t easy to spot if she was in the trance still or not.
Finally, he hoisted the stallion over the edge of fountain and with a big splash the stallion plopped down in the water. 
Immediately, there was a reaction. The stallion sat up and blinked his eyes a couple times. “What? What? I’m alive!” In a daze, he jumped out of the water and then his eyes met Night Vision’s.
“Where do you live?” Night Vision asked him. 
“Um, just over the bridge on the other side of town. Why?”
“Let’s go.” The batpony started trotting off and Glance stood there in a daze.
“What?” The unicorn caught up to him and ran in front of him. “I’m not taking you home.” He told him.
Night Vision stepped closer to him and he was right in his face. “Why?” He asked.
A blush was slowly creeping up on Quick’s face and he couldn’t understand it. “Why what?” The unicorn asked.
“That’s the spirit!” The batpony patted the unicorns mane again and then began trotting ahead. 
“Huh?” Quick was lost in thought and then went after the strange pony. “Oh wait! I don’t know you, um, you bit me-”
Night sighed and peered at Quick out of the corner of his eye. “Still hanging on to that huh?”  He interrupted.
“-and yes! Also, you are a total and complete-”
“Stranger?” He interrupted again. “I know.”  He continued walking and then spun around. “Take me to your house and then I’ll explain who I am, where I come from and how I got here.” He told him.
“No!” Quick blurted. “I’m not going to take you home.”
“Pol-Quick!” The batpony stopped in his tracks and then found Quick several feet in front of him. “Teleportation magic…” Vision mumbled. “I saved your life twice!” He called after him.
“No you didn’t because it was never in danger!” Quick responded, now breaking into a run.
Vision looked up at the sky and then to the side of him at a daisy. “What do I do?” He mumbled.



Quick looked at the door to his house. “Saved my life twice… Ponyville isn’t a dangerous town.” He mumbled. “It’s quite peaceful.” He sighed, as he levitated some keys out from underneath the doormat. “But then again, this Nightmare Moon stuff is pretty…” He trailed off shivering. “…scary…” He whispered.
Then, he noticed his neighbor Lilypad looking at him strangely. He smiled to her, but all she did was frown back. “You think our blessed ruler of the night is scary?” She questioned. Her voice wasn’t all velvet pitched as it usually was, instead it was downright creepy and sent chills up Quick Glance’s spine.
“Um…No?” Quick responded. He fumbled through the keys looking for ones to unlock his door and found them.
He could hear Lilypad trotting up behind him. “If you do, that’s okay.” She replied, now standing a couple of inches behind him.
“Oh thank Celestia I have someone-“ He was cut off by a blue blur knocking him through the front door and down on the ground. In the uproar he could hear another stallion’s voice and Lilypad shouting something. Hoof beats sounded as if some fight was going on and then a bunch of dings and whistles and bangs were heard along with brown and blue blurs going throughout his house.
When Quick finally came to his senses and stood up he found his living room had been emptied and moved to up against the front door and windows.
“What were you thinking?” He heard a voice say. As he stood up he came to meet a green-eyed familiar Pegasus pony with dark blue wings.
He blinked his eyes hoping he would go away but after a few blinks, he just stayed put his same green spears glaring at him. “I was talking to Lilypad-”
“That wasn’t Lilypad that was one of Nightmare’s spies! Get your head in reality here!” It seemed like Night started shaking him at the shoulders.
“Hey-okay!” Quick shouted. He pushed Night Vision to the ground and then trotted to the kitchen. “Celestia, I need my tea…” He trailed off.
“Make me a cup too!” Night Vision called after him.
“Oh, you can drink tea now?” Quick called as he trotted back into the main room.
“I could always drink tea.” He smiled. “Especially in this form.” He added fluttering his Pegasus wings.
“Ugh…” Quick grunted and then trotted back into the kitchen.
As he made the tea, a bright flash of scenery change dawned his vision. He blinked and it went away for a little bit, however, it still made him scream when he saw a snowy field instead of his teapot.
“Quick? Was that you?”  He heard from the living room. 
Another flash of the snowy field appeared along with him looking onto a body with a pale yellow coat. Was that him? Although, his coat was blue not pale yellow! He suddenly began hyperventilating and out of the blue, he heard a young teenage colt’s voice echo off the mountains. “Polaris loves me!” Then, there was shaking.
A bright blue flash illuminated the room as Quick came to the kitchen stove once again and found his teapot in shards around the room. The once boiling water was now sizzling on the gas burner. Had he done that? He turned around to find Night Vision standing there in the doorway speechless with a concerned look on his face.
“You just had a magical outburst. Is everything okay?” Night’s voice rang through his ears but they were ringing so much that he just wanted to collapse then and there.
Although, instead of passing out, he composed himself, and stood up straight for a change. With a sigh, he also wiped the newly found sweat off his brow. “I’m fine.” He then levitated all the broken pieces of the teapot and molded them back together with a “fix it” spell.
“What happened?” The bat pony disguised as a pegasus looked very weary.
“Nothing.” He responded quickly. He wiped some leftover water off the front of the stove with his hoof and didn’t bother looking back.
Vision kept steady eyes on him as he walked over and seemed to turn the stove up some. “Nothing always means something.” He declared.
Finally, the unicorn looked him in the eyes and when he did, the whole world went black and he heard Vision shouting something.

The earth was warm with a soft feeling and the ground was moist from the wrap up of winter. He could almost smell the spring flowers as he watched a batpony cover some seeds in the ground. “Like this Polaris?” The bat pony was just a teenager like him and his mane spilled over the one side of his face. “I don’t think I’m doing it right…” The batpony sighed.
A yellow hoof came up in the field of vision. “No you are.” He smiled. 
“Polaris, what’s it like being a unicorn?” He asked him.

A huge slap to the face made Quick recoil and groan as the pain seared up his jaw. As he came to, he noticed a feeling of something wet under his nose and then his jaw cracked when opened it up to speak. “Did you punch me?” He asked.
“Yes, you spaced out. You didn’t hear the kettle squealing?”  Night raised a hoof and gestured to the kettle that was steaming on the counter with two cups of tea in front of it.
“No.” Quick responded. “I didn’t. I was…” He trailed off watching a stem of steam rise from one of the tea cups. “Dreaming, I guess.” He finished. He brought a hoof to his nose and looked at it to find red spots on his hoof. Glancing up at Night, he noticed a towel in his hoof.
“Here, your nose is bleeding.”
Quick snorted taking the towel in his hoof huffing a bit and making a bubble of blood trickle down his muzzle. As he held the towel to his nose, Vision was standing there goofily smiling. “What?” 
“Nothing.” Then, the batpony picked up the teacup and trotted out to the living room.
“Hmm…” Quick trailed off taking the other teacup in his magic and following Night out of the kitchen.

Although, through the kitchen window a green earthpony was spying and so was a few other ponies with their eyes glazed over.