Eulogy
Eulogy
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I calmly asked for paper and a pen, day in and day out, until it finally gave them to me. Not that it matters. What am I going to do? Poke my eyes out again? The bandages feel like part of me now. The pain is gone. I figure this will be one of my last chances to write legibly, as, without my sight to correct mistakes, my horn will slowly forget the correct way to write. This is a sort of self-indulgence, this writing… It’s a relic of another time, because I’m certain everypony left in Equestria is dead… or something far worse.
I sit against the padded wall day in and day out. The entity brings me food and water. It masks itself as a kind nurse, as an unsympathetic doctor. I think it knows that my hearing has sharpened considerably now that I live in darkness. It fakes conversations in the hallways, on the off chance that I might overhear. One of the nurses talks about having a foal soon. One of the doctors lost his marefriend in a carriage accident. None of it matters, none of it is real. None of it gets to me, not like she does.
That’s the worst part, the part I almost can’t handle. The thing comes to me, masquerading as my friends. Its recreation is perfect. It sounds exactly like Rainbow Dash, feels exactly like a hug from Fluttershy. It even produces a reasonable facsimile of tears that it makes me feel on its lifelike cheeks. When it first dragged me here, the false Rainbow Dash told me all the things I wanted to hear. It told me that she loved me, that she had always loved me, that it didn’t understand why I did this, that we could all still just go back to the way things were, if only I would stop insisting that I was being deceived. It wanted me to believe… no, it needed me to believe that she was real.
I almost fell for it. I really did. I doubted myself for the longest time. In the end, though, it was all too perfect, too flawless, and too real. 'Rainbow Dash' used to come every day, and then every week and finally stopped coming altogether… but I don’t think the entity will give up. I think the waiting game is just another one of its gambits. I will resist it for the rest of my life, if I have to. I don’t know what happened to the rest of Equestria, but I do know that this thing needs me to fall for its deceptions. If it needs that, then maybe, just maybe, I am a thorn in its agenda. Maybe all my friends are still alive out there somewhere, kept alive only by my will to resist the deceiver. I hold on to that hope, rocking back and forth in my cell to pass the time. I will never give in. I will never break. I am the element of magic... Twilight Sparkle.
The doctor read the paper the patient had scribbled on. It was barely readable, written in the shaky script of one who could not see. He wanted to smile at the mare’s steadfast resolve, a reminder of the will to survive, but he knew that the patient was completely delusional.
After all, a sane pony would have fallen for the deception long ago.
The doctor wanted to smile. He wanted to whisper words of encouragement to the delusional unicorn. He wanted to scream, but the nerve filaments wrapped around his head and into his eyes made him do otherwise. His body walked into the cell like a puppet, and told the patient, once more, that she was wrong, and that there was nothing trying to deceive her. The unidentified metal object did not have Equestria in its grasp, and was not preparing to build another to send to some other unsuspecting world.
The doctor felt the signals through his spinal cord, and tried to resist, but to no avail. He was just another illusion, a tool, for the use of his 'God'. Tears flowed from his eyes mercilessly as he trotted out of the room, and closed the door.
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Eye Of The Insane - Slayer
Happy National Day Of Slayer! FUCKIN' SLAYER!
This is creepy. Legitimately.
708733 Agreed, Technophobes would love this
Hmm, I don't know. I think I'll pass on this one. Have a thumbs up for the Hell of it
I don't normally go for Dark stories, but this one sounds really interesting, albeit a little spooky.
I think I'll read it later when it's light out
This reminds me intensely of I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.
And it got me thinking: Who's really being controlled here? Is it the ponies who have accepted the technology and become "tools", or is it the ones who have become crazy, being corrupted from this sort of amorphous "virus" that makes them suddenly lapse into paranoia? Or is it both, being manipulated so that their differences and conflict cause a sort of chaotic harmony for the GOD to play off of?
WHY
WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME GET ALL PHILOSOPHICAL AND DEEP?
Holy cow that was intense. Then that bit at the end I was like
. Although the ending made it even creepier, if it wasn't added, it would have made for a very satisfying if very sad ending, in my opinion any way. Great job, keep up the good writing. 
708733 That's what I was going for
709103 Creepy stories are best read in the dark anyways arch.413chan.net/animated_applejack_d'aw_ooOOooOo-(n1312635598572).gif
709473 Because I love stories that make me think. Thinking is scary
709951 Yeah, at first the part in the end wasn't there but then I decided I wanted people to know that what Twilight was afraid of was actually real, and she was only saved because she had become insane.
So... awesome!
Though, I may be biased...
712024 You're always biased!
712038 Sshhh... Nopony else needs to know that...
So... Let me get this straight. Twilight was on her studies of programming so much, she never went outside. When she finally decided to, she was afraid because she didn't see anypony, afraid that something was out there, so she never went outside and tried to call her friends, weird call, drunk rainbow dash, she goes back to her apartment, blah blah blah spikes email, smashes everything, goes insane, pokes her eyes out.
So in the end, everypony actually did die and there was one "robot" controlling everything to Twilight?
712402 Basically, yes. Theres some details that probably got overlooked, but yeah. She stays down in her apartment without hearing from anypony, which she definitely thinks is strange. She begins to notice how vague her friends are being while addressing her. Then, she starts to notice that nopony she ever talks to says anything that she hasn't already given out. What's going on, is all the ponies have been bent to the will of the machines and Twilight was only saved because she was too smart for her own good. Either way, Equestria is doomed. That's just the short explanation...
... i need to meet up with some friends of mine tomorrow...
That was a pretty awesome story.
However, I can't give you any credit, since it's not so much "inspired" by Dymerski's story, but it's a literal word-for-word copy with a few names replaced.
Disappointing, I suppose. I can't condone plagiarism.
714113 Haha yeah, you better.
715863 And I honestly am not trying to copy his work and take it for my own. I'm sorry you see it that way, but I changed a lot around and worked on it. Would it be better to say it is a variation of his story? I don't want to piss anyone off here, I just tried to refresh the original story because I liked it a lot.
716540
I think the word is "adaptation." Or something.
I don't know that anyone is going to be mad (probably not even Mr. Dymerski), but it seems like the kinda thing you'd want to let people know. Because it is a really good story, that much is true.
And the prologue/epilogue actually do add an interesting slant, for what it's worth.
716830 Alright, I'll put that in there. I just really liked the idea of the story, and if anything I just want to spread it around for more people to read
I liked this. Dark, creepy story indeed.
Poor Twilight Sparkle.
I've had this in my reading list for weeks, and having now read it, I'm very impressed. The ending in particular, I did not see it coming where it got flipped around and Twilight was actually right. Well done!
Short and creepy, I liked it. Good job with that.