As I sit here dying in this god forsaken hospital, I remember the times I've had on this planet, Friends, and my own insanity was fun to a point, but here I am letting the world tell me this is the end. Life is a cruel mistress, but so is magic.
Sixteen years old and dying of a condition that only first appears in people twice my age. I was first Diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis when I was thirteen, that's when I had my first sign of those symptoms. I had looked it up it up and apparently I was young for that kind of condition, but yet here I am again in this hospital, legs numbed, mind splitting headache and the voice in my head telling me that this is it, this is the end of my journey.
I sit here, waiting for my untimely, early ending to what most people call life. I feel the pressure in my head rising and then, I black out.
I open my eyes and find myself lying on the cool ground, no beeping of machines, no migraine. I can feel my legs so I go to move them. I get up and face something that has made my younger years a little more easier to bare, I am looking at Ponyville.
Here I am sitting in this hospital waiting for my end to come. I know this is the end because I can feel it, usually when I feel something I know it's going to happen. The reason I am sitting here is because I have been diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis. and the people here are trying to keep me alive, for the most part it isn't so bad once I got past the fact that my legs are useless now and I have a mind splitting Migraine. And that's what it does, well to me anyways, The condition attacks the nerve ending cells in the brain and spine, rendering communication to certain areas of the body impossible.
The mere fact that I have had this condition since I was thirteen is amazing, I mean I overcame it in about three to four months but I made it, seeing myself walking after that was even more amazing, the doctors said that I had a high chance that the M.S. damaged the nerve endings in my legs and that I would never walk again, but I did and that made me happy.
But here I am again sitting in the exact same room I was in those two to three years ago, waiting for the bad news. I have always believed that the only good news was no news, but in this case any news would be just what they are, good or bad. I try to recall what kind of person I was over the years I lived here, wondering if I was good or bad, I was extremely quiet so far as to people calling me a mute, I had loads of friends but I was never popular, I just had friends from every group in my school. Being friends with the popular people of every group really helped out too, If i had trouble with one of their own I would just tell the friend involved with that group to have them back off so I could continue what I did best.
I was never into sports, that doesn't mean I let myself get lazy, I just never really liked the idea of being in a pile of sweaty guys fighting over a football, and basket ball was out of the question, and baseball was too. Most of the time I spent doing something, was spent on researching and taking notes. I was always the brain of almost every class room I have, but most of my grades were crap, but I didn't care because I had a job as a instructor for the military waiting once I got out. How I got it was by a chance though, one of the tests I was taking was given to us by the military to see what kind of generation we had turned out to be, I had noticed something wrong with the test and pointed it out. The people who gave it out were skeptical at first but when I had explained it to them they seemed surprised, surprised that out of everyone that has taken this test no one has noticed that, not even the people who made it. They told me that they have a spot open for a military strategist and that the person who fills it shall be teaching the soldiers how to handle situations that would be deemed impossible to handle by normal soldiers. And of course I said yes, but on a condition, and that condition was to use my own method of teaching.
I started teaching part time the year after, being only fifteen was a draw back since I was still in Junior High. The money was good, the soldiers I was training were decent too, they seemed to not enjoy my company though, I guess being fifteen and having a military job as a strategist seemed a bit off to them, calling me 'Sir' and everything. There was one though, his name was Dawkins A.K.A. 'KingPin' he was the only one that seemed to actually enjoy seeing me teach there. I wonder how he is doing.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
I looked over to the heart monitor and the thing is going hay wire saying my heart rate is going over five-hundred beats a minute, being taught some medical properties of the human body I knew that this was bad. All of a sudden my migraine began to get worse but I could start to feel my legs, I tried getting up but was surprised by the absence of floor, I fell and blacked out probably because of the severe migraine I had.
-------------------------- Equestria
"Spike can you fetch me the book about magical properties of Daemon Summoning?" Twilight asked
"Sure thing Twi" Spike agreed.
Being a Princess had its perks, like the magical boost so she could preform more powerful spells, and the title did help to obtain books on those spells.
This particular spell was something she needed to see if it actually worked, she knew she would have to summon a low leveled Daemon before she could move to the higher ones.
"Here you go Twilight" Spike said handing the book over to her.
"Thank you Spike, now stand back I don't want you getting caught up in this" She said pushing spike behind her.
"Okay, level one Daemon here we go" Twilight said as her horn began to shimmer with a lavender light.
The spell began to draw a circle of blue flames on the ground, and the earth began to open up beneath it. When the spell was ready to be released a bright flash was blinded both Twilight and Spike.
"Twilight, what was that?" Spike asked rubbing his eyes.
"I don't know, but it should have worked, maybe Daemons don't exist after all" Twilight said.
"And I was looking forward to meeting oneSIGH oh well, next spell! Spike get me the book on trans dimensional travel" ----------------- Point of View: Me
I woke up to find myself lying on the ground in some sort of field.
"This has to be a dream, in my condition, Psychological problems are a common" I say getting up and wiping the dirt off of my black jeans.
"Well time to see what I'm dreaming of this time"
I start to look around, and I notice something, I'm in a orchard of some kind. I start to walk to what seems somewhere out of this place and I notice something again, a barn, a almost familiar looking barn. I start to get closer and I start to hear voices, one I already know and others that seem just as familiar as the barn.
'Wow, we haven't seen this place in a long time'
"What are you talking about Jack? I ask the little voice in my head.
'Don't tell me you don't recognize this, the barn, those trees, and the sign that says Sweet Apple Acres?'
"They ring a bell, but further examination must be obtained" I say looking around.
"Hey what are you doi-" A tiny orange horse says before freezing at the sight of what is in front of her.
I lock eyes with her, hers filled with fear, mine filled with realization, this was Sweet Apple Acres from the My little Pony series.
"Oh wow, I haven't seen this show since I was in Middle School, I wonder what it is doing in my dreams" I say rubbing my chin while looking at the orange Earth Pony before me.
"Hey Applejack, how are you doing?" I ask paying the dream out like they know me.
"H-How do you know my name? And what are you?" She asked in fear, shaking a little bit.
"Well this is new, my dreams usually respond with something more up beat, like they know me, but it appears that it has made this a rare occasion" I say walking over to Applejack, who stands roughly half my height.
I go onto one knee and begin to pet her, and as soon as that happens she begins to hum happily to herself, it seems she enjoys it. But I get interrupted with a swift kick to the skull and I black out. Again. ----------------
"Twi, I need some help" Applejack shouted rushing through the door, before slamming it behind her.
"Applejack what's wrong" Twilight asked her putting a hoof on her back.
"I found a strange critter on my farm and I brought it here" It's around the back" She said pushing the librarian out the door.
"How is it strange?" Twilight asked her.
"I ain't never seen anything like it before" She said still pushing Twilight.
"Okay, let's just get it in the library then we will look at it" Twilight said lifting the cart with her magic. ---------------- Point of View: Me
This is definitely not a dream, that felt all to real. That kick gave me a headache. And here I am under a tarp on a wooden platform being lifted into the air. First thing I taught was to be patient and wait for the right timing. I feel the platform hit the ground, keep waiting I tell myself, but then the tarp was removed and I bolted up and grabbed the nearest thing I could reach, which was a broom.
"Stay back, I have a... I have a broom and I am... I'm not afraid to use it!" I say shooing away the purple unicorn and orange earth pony.
"It talks!" Twilight yelps and runs behind the couch.
"Whoa calm down critter, we mean you no harm" Applejack said approaching me.
"I will not calm down, one moment I'm dying and the next I'm in this world, all better and healed"
"Calm down, This is Twilight Sparkle, and you already know my name somehow, so do you want to tell us your name?" She asked no pushing the broom towards the ground.
What should I say? I don't want to use my real name, it is kind of weird anyways, I wonder if they have French Ponies here.
'Use the name you gave yourself in french class back in Freshman year'
"I will tell you my name, but on one condition" I say smirking.
I am a man of compromise, but I have to have something to make it worth my time.
"And what condition is that?"
"That knowledge of me never leaves this town, I don't want to meet your Princess, Celestia" I say with the smirk still on my face.
"Twilight, what do you make of this situation?" Applejack turns to see the unicorn shivering behind the couch.
"As long as he doesn't cause to much trouble" She say pointing with a hoof towards me.
"On my honor, I won't do anything to cause trouble" I say raising my right hand, "Pinkie promise"
Well, it turns out that they do have french ponies here, and it turns out that the two ponies in the room with me understood what I had said. And they took it quite well, if quite well was getting books of every size tossed at me then, yeah, it went smooth. It was quite funny actually, having the purple unicorn toss books at me and the orange earth pony try to calm her down. All of a sudden a magical bolt came hurtling towards me and I reacted, what I had done, I don't have the slightest clue, but when I saw that bolt shoot towards me something happened and I reflexively snapped my fingers, turning the bolt of magic into... a rubber chicken.
'Oh, we are going to have fun with this' Jake says.
"Indeed we are Jake, indeed we are" I say looking towards the now stunned ponies in front of me.
"Ho-How did you just do that?" Twilight says her voice faltering a bit.
"I don't know let me try something else" I say, right before snapping my fingers again.
When I had done that, a whole stampede of Chocolate Labrador puppies came crashing into the library, literally chocolate puppies.
"But that's impossible, the only one with this kind of magic is..." Twilight say before getting interrupted by a group of the puppies tackling her to the ground and licking her, leaving smears of chocolate on her coat.
"Awwwww Twilight, I think they like you" I say holding both of my hands to my cheeks.
"G-get them...off... of... m-me" Twilight says trying to suppress the fits of laughter working their way through her sentence.
"Oh fine if you insist" I say snapping my fingers, making all of the puppies disappear in a flash.
After that, both me and Twilight look towards Applejack, who is just covered in chocolate from head to hoof.
"What, I like puppies" she says looking at us both.
"Okay, that aside what were you going to say twilight?" I ask almost giggling from the smears on her coat looking like the bathroom on the last day in middle school. That was not my doing though, I knew who it was, but I just liked every-ones reaction to it, I swear, also Jake has a sick sense of humor too.
"What I was going to say was, the only one I know who has magic like yours is Discord and he is reformed so I don't think he would do anything like this" Twilight says putting a hoof to her chin.
"Well why don't we go ask? besides, I need someone to teach me how this magic works" I say smirking at both of the ponies in front of me.
"I don't see any harm in that, what could go wrong?" ----------- Location: Fluttershy's Cottage
"Why did I have to ask that!?" Twilight shouted as two chaotic beings were floating around turning everything into something extremely random.
"How about this?!" I say pulling a golden toucan out of my sleeve, which then began to squawk and lay chocolate eggs.
"Not bad, but wait till you see this!" Discord says snapping his fingers and giving Twilight a disco ball affect and latching a tiny cat to the bottom of her tail, which she then began to chase it and spin, turning the room into a dance floor.
The two chaotic beings began to dance in midair while twilight tried to get the cat off of her tail. The scene by anyone's standards would be crazy, not chaotic yet.
"Oh by Luna's moon this is fun, but you know what would make this even better?" I ask turning towards the still dancing Spirit of Chaos.
"Please tell me!" Discord looks at me with over sized cartoon eyes.
"If everyone was here!" I say snapping my fingers and all of a sudden, all of Ponyville appeared before us, most of them were freaking out, others just thought Pinkie had just thrown a special party and went with it, so they began to dance with the two already dancing. And they danced until the break of dawn.
"Finally, wait a minute, everypony out!" Twilight says throwing the cat to the opposite side of them room.
"Awwww" Was all the crowd said before shuffling out the door.
Twilight turned to see the two beings high-fiving and chest bumping.
"Dude that was amazing, I haven't partied that hard since... I don't think I have ever partied that hard" I say letting out a sigh.
"Well, that's the kind of life when you can do what we can do, it's just so great to finally find someone with my type of magic, and my type of humor" Discord said.
"I'm just glad I get to live another life you know? Get a second chance at this" I say still floating with my arms behind my head.
"Yeah, I know all to well" Discord said sighing and taking the same position as me.
For once throughout the night silence filled the air, but all that lasted not to long when Twilight broke it saying, "Okay, I know I said I wouldn't but you forced my hoof, I'm going to have to get Princess Celestia here" She said before trotting out of the house.
"Oh man, you are in trouble" Discord say elbowing me.
"Meh, I am not worried, they will want me for scientific reason, so they aren't really going to do anything serious" I say waving my hand to the air.
"Wait a minute, isn't this fluttershy's house?" I ask looking around.
"Yes why?" Discord replies.
"So, where is she" At that moment she comes stumbling into the room with a lamp shade over her head and she says, "Woohoo" before passing out cold.
"Well, atleast we know she had fun" I say shrugging and then putting my hands back around my head.
Not only was Twilight Party-Pooper telling the truth, but she actually sealed me up in a chaos-resistant bubble of magic, I guess one to many things happened with Discord, so they made this. Upon inspection of the bubble, I have found one weakness, the bubble reacts to compliments... apparently, this bubble reads the mind of the person dwelling within and decides if it is a threat or not, usually bad guys don't compliment things, I guess.
"Hey Jake, can you take over? I need to mull over some things" I ask looking at my reflection.
'Yeah, no problem' Jake says giving off a small chuckle.
"Jake, you can't harm anyone here? Okay?" I say pointing towards the reflection.
'Yes yes, I know the rules, just like the base'
"Good here you go" I say closing my eyes.
-------------------- Point of View: Jake Insania
"Jesus mother fucking Christ, it feels so good to be free for once in a while" I say stretching.
"Now time to have some fun!" I say bringing a hand to my chest.
At that moment Princess Celestia and Princess Party-pooper walk through the door talking to each other. They stop and turn their heads to look at me. And Celestia was the first to speak.
"Hello there, Discorde? What made you choose that name? And just so you know, I know that isn't your real name, most humans don't name their children that" She said with a small smirk on her face, like I've been called out.
"Well hi there, Celestia, my name is Jake, Jake Insania, a pleasure to meet you, I would shake your hoof but your pawn here put me in this bubble, but no matter" I say as I proceed to walk through the bubble, and holding my hand in front of her.
At that moment a look of bewilderment over come their calm, stoic, faces.
"How did you do that? You shouldn't be able to do that!" Party-pooper shouted.
"Oh, I forgot, where are my manners, please take a seat" I say pointing towards the couch to where they look.
"Where did he go?" Celestia said looking around.
"Please, allow me to elaborate" I say, walking from another room... on the ceiling.
Again, the look on their faces brought the biggest grin to my face. Then and there they look towards each other and nod, sit down, and give me their full attention.
"Like Discord, I am a spirit, but the problem with that is that, I am not a spirit. I am a alternate personality to the one you met earlier, Discorde. If you were to call me a spirit, I would be called the Spirit of Insanity. But really, I am the collective thoughts of Discorde, given a personality" I say pacing back and forth on the ceiling like I was giving a lecture.
"If you are the spirit of Insanity, then why do you come from your world? Usually spirits aren't born in your realm" Celestia says raising her chin from her hoof.
"I am glad you asked that Sun Butt" I say appearing behind them and putting my arms around their necks, their sweet fleshy necks.
"Like most people in our 'realm', people suffer mental anguish, but rarely do those people have a condition that can damage their psyche, and on top of that. being fifteen and in the military didn't help either." I say resuming my marching around the ceiling.
"Why was, Discorde, subjected to that kind of job at that age?" Twilight asked seemingly worried.
"Again, I am glad you asked, Sparkle Butt" I say pointing a finger.... or eight at her.
"Like your world, we also have violence in ours, but in our world there is a lot more then what you have going on here, and I being light on the amount. In our world, you can't just simply kill someone and expect it to be over, most groups of terrorists need punishing so people won't want to join them." I say hopping of the ceiling and walking towards them.
"Hearing about war, I don't think I like where this is going" Celestia says taking a glance at her pupil.
"We have to psychologically torture them, get them to fear us. And guess who taught those soldiers how to do it? Your one and only Discorde, not only was Discorde teaching military strategies at fifteen, he was the go-to-guy for making enemies sing like Justin Beiber with his testicles kicked into his throat" I say trying to hold back laughter.
The two Alicorns just looked at me with faces of shock and horror... I want to call it shorror. I couldn't help but laugh at their faces. When I started laughing, Celestia stood from the couch, and walked towards me. I stopped laughing when she got up to me, she was barely taller than me, maybe an inch or two.
"If you harm any of my little ponies, I will not hesitate to send you to the moon" She looked at me with a stern look, one that only a mother would give to her children.
"You won't get that from me, unless, someone tries to harm me or Discorde. But I have one more thing to say" I say raising a finger... and a foot to the roof, this was going to a fun day!
"And what is that?" Celestia asks raising an eyebrow.
"Just this" I say only getting an inch away from Celestia, RIGHT before I lock her lips with mine, she stiffens but doesn't close her mouth... wrong choice! Just as that happens, her tongue invades my mouth... what is going on?
Only a couple of feet away, a certain lavender pupil, has the same look when I- Discorde killed someone during the torture process, frightened out of her mind, well... almost.
When I kissed Celestia, I expected her to freak out but... she is returning the kiss and more! I am scared now! I need an adult! HELP ME!
'Discorde you take over!' I think, pushing the conscientiousness back to the driver seat. ----------------- Point of View: Discorde
'What the hell is your problem?! I am trying to think here! I shout/think.
'Don't be mad, but I may have already locked you into a relationship...?
'What are you talking about...wait, what is this feeling?'
'Open your eyes'
At that moment, my eyes shoot open, and I see and feel that I am getting frenched by the Princess of this land! HELP! I need an adult! I pull away leaving a certain Princess just tongue the air.
"Twilight! What did he do?!" I ask running over to the other princess.
"he just, just just just... he just" Twilight said before I cut her off, knowing I was going to get nothing,
Turning to look at Celestia, I see something, one, a blush brighter then what she rules over, and two, a pool of clear liquid clearly coming from her- Oh COME ON! I DIDN'T NEED TO SEE THAT! Not only am I scared shitless now, I have the weirdest boner now, well besides the time when I had to torture a female spy.
Using my magic I snapped my fingers and teleported out of there.
'JAKE INSANIA, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU GET ME INTO!?'
So here I am, scared out of my mind, by who? Well maybe a partner craving, goddess who is shouting obscenities at me while teleporting.
"Come back here Jaaaake-Teleport- Jaaake, come here and put your-Teleport- meat stick in my-Teleport- cock pocket! JAAAAKE, GET BACK HERE AND FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED!"
Holy saint mary bent over the hood of a Mercedes benz! She's catching up! fuck me for skipping those morning jogs with Team Echo!
"Gotcha!" Celestia shouted.
"No, I don't want to die, not now I have so much to live for!" I shout trying to push away from the Celestial Pink maned pony.
"Oh wait, I can just do this!" I snap my fingers and teleport to the nearest room.
Okay, that might buy me some time, she can't know where I am... Right? As I look around I notice two things... the first thing was the coloring of the room, maybe a dark blue, black some might call it, and the second thing was the wide eyed alicorn sitting on a bed. She had what seemed to be a moon on her ass.
"Moon butt! You got to save me! Help me escape your crazy might be sister!" I mean come on, sun? moon? both are stellar objects that help this planet survive, who wouldn't say they are intertwined in some way?
But she just sat there staring at me, and then she asked, "What is in it for us?"
"Uh uh, I don't know, anything, just save me from her!" I plead giving her my best puppy dog eyes hoping it will work.
She then put her hoof to her chin and hummed as if in thought, "Fine, but you will owe us" She says.
"CELESTIA, HE IS OVER HERE!" she shouts.
Fuck you, you lying sack of-
"aah, there you are Jakey, I have been looking all over for you" Celestia says moving closer and closer until...
*Poof*
In a flash and cloud of smoke, the crazy lady disappeared.
"What happened? Where is she!?" I ask worried that she might screw something up.
"Don't worry, I sent her someplace she can cool off at" Moon Butt giggles. -------------- Location: The Moon
There on the Lunar surface sat a grumpy Celestia, looking upon her planet, until a grey and black version of Luna rolled up and said, "Hey", This Luna was ALOT smaller than hers, but it will have to do, Celestia shrugged and picked up little Wuna and proceeded to RAM the horn in to her soaking pussy, with little Wuna shrieking in fright of what was happening. -------------- Location: Equestria Point of View: Me
"Thank you... and your name is...?"
"We- I am Luna, and I believe you owe us something for saving you from my extremely horny sister" Luna asked raising an eyebrow.
"How did I get into this?
'I don't know...'
"Oh yeah... You got us into this, you just had to go and kiss a repressed Princess didn't you?!"
'Hey, you have caught me doing worse stuff, remember Breach and Clear training with Team Fuse?'
"Honestly, how did you manage to sneak a pound of C4 into the generals office?... Where did you even get the pound anyways, we weren't even working with enough to blow a door down!
'You have to remember I don't work with logic, I am the spirit of insanity after all'
As I sat there arguing with Jake Luna decided to get a quill and a piece of paper, so she could write down her demands. She started to write them down, apparently Jake took notice and said to ask what she was doing.
"Uhm Luna? What are you doing?"
"I am writing down what I would like from you, nothing to extreme something small, here" She said handing me the piece of paper.
"You want a... a date? Is there anything else you might want?" I ask hoping she would have something else in mind.
"No" She said, "That is what I want for saving you from a most painful night of being under my sisters flank" she said giggling a little.
"And might I ask why you want a date? I am sure there are a bunch of other people dying to go out with you" I say trying to get out of this situation.
"That might be, but none of which are as interesting as you" She says batting her eyes at me.
"Well fine where would you want to go?"
"Not now, maybe a little later in the week, I do have business to take care of after all"
"Fine" I say getting up and leaving the room, but as I was about to leave, I turned around and said, "Oh and Luna... thank you, you know... for saving me" to which she replies,
"Think nothing of it" ----------- Loaction: Canterlot Roads
"What the hell is going on? barely a week in this place and I am already going out with royalty and I have another trying to molest me" I say walking down the roads ignoring the stares of the ponies.
'You are just that good, and don't forget that you do have some defiance of logic in you, you aren't of any natural order, here or anywhere'
"Yeah and I have you to thank for that, but what happens if I die in this world like I did the other? Do I just jump to another? do I keep my memories from the human world or do they get pushed out of my head?" I ask myself.
'I don't know anything about that, but what I do know is that, these questions you are asking are for another time, maybe the past, maybe the future, I don't know, but we have to stay here in the present and find out how to live life here...'
"Wow, that is the most sane thing you have said... ever, and hey do you mind if you take over again? I need some rest" I say letting out a sigh.
'Hey, I would be glad to, I've had my fair share of rest since I ran away from that crazy lady'
----------------- Point of View: Jake Insania
As I stretched my limbs I saw something out of the corner of my eye... someone is following me, oh don't they teach someone not to sneak up on a logic defying being? They do have Discord after all...
"Boo" I say tapping the back of the ponies head.
"Aaaagh" Is all they say before jumping five feet in the air.
"Why are you following me?" I say pointing over to me on the street corner.
"What, wha- how!?" Is all they ask.
"Oh, you can't stalk me, I stalk you, now answer my question, why were you following me!?" I say raising a finger towards them.
"You are not a natural being to our world, so I thought I would see if you posed a threat to anyone" they said with a grin, that looked like they were in pain.
"Oh yeah, and don't bother lying to me, although I might be foreign, It's not like I can't tell when somebody is lying to me, trained in the military after all" I say with a big Cheshire cat grin.
"I can't tell you anything, and even if I could I wouldn't" the pony says shaking her head.
"Oh you will tell me everything, or I will tell you something" I say moving closer to the now shaking pony.
"You can't do anything to me-" The pony says right before vanishing into thin air.
"Well time to get to work" I say before snapping my fingers and disappearing too. ---------------- Location: Classified Period: A Week before arrival
"Now, tell me who you are and what you were doing following me" I say clicking the light above the table on.
Then and there the door to the room opened and in came another human.
"... oh hey Jake, how you been?"
"Hello, General Thompson, I am doing great how are the kids?"
"They are getting bigger and bigger, I just hope they don't pass me up" Thompson chuckled.
"Well, if you don't mind I am kind of busy interrogating this prisoner" I say pointing to the human with a hoodie on.
"Hey, don't let me get in your way, oh yeah good news Jake, The government has confirmed your way of mind manipulation for torture now, so... go nuts... literally" Thompson said laughing his way out of the room.
I look over to the "human" and my face contorts in to a look of pure enjoyment. This is a moment I have seen to many times to count, the victim on the edge of shitting themselves, but now, now this human being was on the edge of being so afraid, so terrified, that she had the look of a deer frozen in the lights of a semi-truck.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? The first victim of mind manipulation? nay the very first victim of my mind, albeit I have killed people before, but not really with mental torture..." I say walking around the room.
At that moment the female decided to get brave and say, "You can't scare me, I have seen things that would make you wish you could shit your heart out"
"Oh but I can create things that can make you wish you could wash away your sins, wash away every evil thing you have done and die, die in a fiery pit of what ever religion you believe in, you will wish you could go there, for that place would be much sweeter than what I am good to put you through" I say holding my hands against her throat.
"You can't do shit, this is just some new tactic to scare people, you won't fool me, I am not talking, you worthless pile of american filth" the woman spits in my face.
"You know what? I am going to give you a chance, I am going to send out the other me and he will try and play nice, but if you don't, I swear to the gods... I will make you squeal like the little pig you are, I will roast you in the fires of hell, nay the fires of my hatred towards your kind called humans" ------------------- Location: Canterlot Dungeons
Click
And at that moment a single light bulb clicked on giving off a faint yellow glow barely enough to fill the room. In the middle of the room was a table and on that table, bound and gagged was the earth pony mare, she was crying, but I didn't mind, that was a common sight.
"Now you are going to tell me why you were following me, this will be one of the cases where I don't torture you, I am just asking nicely" I say removing the gag from her mouth.
"Please, I will tell you anything, anything! just don't hurt me"
These ponies are to easy, I need to find something to make me luagh or I am going to die of boredom.
"Fine let us start with your name, what is it?"
"My name is Thunder Hoof, I have been instructed by a Griffon general to come here and gather info for our impending attack"
"Hmm, so, gathering info and never seeing me before you thought I was some sort of secret being kept by the Equestrians?"
"If only it were that simple, my leaders have told me that the ponies were keeping a secret weapon of some kind, I thought it would be you, turns out we were only semi right"
"Hmm that is all I needed to know, thank you for being truthful Thunder Hoof, You shall be returned to your leaders"
"Just like that? You are letting me go?"
"Oh not, I am of course going to wipe you of your memory of everything you found out about this place"
Click
And then, the room went black, the yellow glow fading from the room as if it were leaving this realm.
"Princess, Princess Luna, you need to wake up, I have dire information." I say poking Luna's face.
The princess of the Night just laid there unmoving, dead to the world. Finally after a amount of poking and a slap she bolted upwards.
"Wha- what are you doing Jake? why did you wake me?"
"Princess I have dire information about a spy in Equestria."
"What are you talking about? a spy?" Luna asks rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"Yes a spy, from Griffonia, he came here to find some sort of secret weapon." I say pulling Luna out of the reclining chair.
'I wonder how they will react to this...'
"Hmmm, this is news indeed, how did you find this out?" Luna ask raising an eyebrow.
"They were following me when I spotted them, so I took it upon my self to question them and deport them... without the info they learned."
"Well... good job I guess, even though you had not reported it to any military official, you still did a good job."
"Oh no I did report it, they just let me do the work, with them being busy and everything, preparing for anymore incursions from the Griffon Empire."
"Okay, now just let me get back to the dreams of my subjects."
And just like that I was gone. ------------------- Location: Outskirts of Ponyville
"Well that happened, and it didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would, good job Jake"
"Hey you can't say that I haven't been able to do that kind of work before"
"True, now go have fun, these powers of Chaos make talking to you a lot easier"
"They do indeed, how ever, won't this cause problems? what if one of us is in trouble?"
"Don't worry, these powers allow me to summon you back here in a snap"
"Okay, good luck"
The two proceeded to exchange a handshake and both left each others company.
--------------------------- Point of View: Jake Location: Alleys of Ponyville
"What is there to do around here? I could probably screw with the locals of town"
"ooh maybe... nah, I don't think the Princess's of Equestria would take kindly making a whole town of her's insane." Another sigh escapes my lips.
"WHAT IS THERE TO DO?!" I yell scaring the shit out of a wandering pony with a bomb cutie mark, and he replies,
"Silence! Or I'll kill you!" and he trots out of the alley muttering sour nothings.
"Where have I heard that before? Oh well." Angry prick.
I continued walking through the alleys of Ponyville, trying to find something to do, because if I couldn't do anything I would probably just bend over and-
"What are you?"
"Huh?" I say looking around for anypony that could have said that.
"Down here."
I look down and see a little filly looking up at me with big questioning eyes.
"Huh?"
"What are you mister?" The filly asks again.
"Well, uuh... I guess you could say that I'm a human." I say, my mind still trying to support my heart from failing.
"Human?" The fillies gaze still containing the curiosity it had only moments before.
"Yes, human, now could you stop making that face, I think my hearts about to give." I say clutching my chest, trying to avert my gaze to something else, but the cuteness draws me in. She scrunches her nose in confusion and I hear the sound of my heart dropping.
Damn these ponies, they have more power than they think they do.
"You're really weird." Well there goes the feeling. I look at the filly and smile.
"Do you have anything fun around here to do? I'm afraid I'll be bored to death before something interesting happens." And I need to power up my other half's chaos powers, I think he would appreciate that.
"I was just heading over to my club house to meet up with my friends, we were planning to get our cutie marks today, I guess you could come along...?"
If they are anything like this one, I might need something to start my heart, if one wasn't bad enough, how about two more? Oh well, what could I lose?
"Okay, let's go!" I say pointing towards the sky.
"This way"
"Onward!" As I begin to march along with the tiny unicorn.
Location: Canterlot Castle PoV: Jack
"Well, time to kick back and relax and watch some... damn." I say as I remember that they didn't have any kind of Television here.
"Wait a moment!" I say as I reach into my pocket and produce a emerald green device. My Ipod with the ear buds still hooked in. I give a mental fist pump as I reach into my other pocket and produce the charging cable for it. Now the problem is charging it when it runs out. I shrug and put the cable back into my pocket. I put the buds into my ear and switch to a favorite of mine and hum, partially sing along with it. "Never seen the blue moon glow..."
I walk to my designated room in the castle and open the door. What I was greeted with wasn't that bad actually, surprising, but not bad. There was a female pony in my room, she was decked out in full maid clothing, bent over clearing up some cobwebs from under one of the desks, she was swaying back and forth which could only mean that she had a song stuck in her mind and she was dancing to it. I was now to the most upbeat song I had and my mind was having a seizure. I honestly don't know how she doesn't hear the music, it was blaring into my head, oh well. She continued to do this for a whole minute before I take my ear buds out and cough into my hand.
She jumps at the sudden noise and hits her head.
"Ow ow ow. Oh hey, the Princess said you be by soon. I'm just cleaning up what's left and I'll be out of your hair." She said as she rubbed her head with a hoof.
I wave a hand. "Take your time, you aren't bothering anybody." I extend a hand towards her. "Jake by the way, and you are?"
She reaches with a hoof and I take it my and and we shake.
"Dust Bunny, my name's Dust Bunny" She said.
What an adorable name. And it fits her... somehow. She was a unicorn mare, light blue in color and a mane of messy blonde curls.
Well, again, time to relax. Wait a minute, I have the powers of Chaos behind me, how did Discord do it? Snap And just like that, a projector with a USB port appears and lights up. Oh, I love Discord. I hook up my Ipod and turn the machine towards a naked wall and turn it on. The intro to a movie begins. And I hear Dust Bunny gasp as she sees what's going on.
"Are you watching a movie?" Dust Bunny asks as she walks up next to me.
I look at her and ask "Yes... is that a problem...?" I raise an eyebrow with a look of worry.
"It's just that, these things are new and only available to the most successful of Canterlot." She says.
"Okay... Want to watch with me?" I ask her.
"Really?" She asks as if I'm crazy.
"Would be rude if I didn't let you." I say scooting over on the couch and patting the cushion. "Oh and by the way, these movies are from my planet so if you're confused about something just ask me okay?"
"Okay!" She says as she leaps from the floor to the seat.
"We also got some popcorn and soda if your thirsty or feeling snackish." I say pointing to her right at the assortment of goodies on the table, that somehow got there... shut up. Why did I think that? Oh god, in absence of Jake my minds making up for his presence. Or I'm just tired of thinking and I should watch the movie.
"What;s the name of the movie?" Dust Bunny asks.
"One of my personal favorites, Hachi: A Dog's Tale. Now just sit back and relax."
"Well, you can check that off of the list" I say to the group of fillies.
"Once we get back to the club house, we can start coming up with more awesome ideas!" the orange filly says, I never really got any of there names. I look up at the sky and notice that it's getting dark out, I should probably bunk over at Twilight's tonight, too tired to even use my powers... Damn I'm getting old.
"I can't go with you girls, I got to get some shut eye, but maybe tomorrow." I say as I see the disappointment in their eyes.
"Okay, see you tomorrow Jake." The white filly says.
I begin to make my way but before towards the library but before disappearing around the corner I turn to the girls and give one last wave goodbye.
"Jack's powers should be filled back up with all the destruction we caused. And I wonder how he's going to fare without me being there...? He hasn't slept alone since I came into the picture and I really worry about the little guy." It was true, I worried about Jack. Even though he may be wiser than his age lets on, the things he's seen. It just ain't right. I shake my head dispelling the thought.
"He's going to be fine, what could go wrong?" I say with the library in my sights.
Location: Canterlot Castle, Personal Room PoV: Jack
"That was so sad!" Dust Bunny cries as she levitates another tissue to her face.
"Yeah... it really was." I say struggling not to join Dust Bunny. I really never could stand seeing someone cry. That and the movie, only makes it harder. As Dust Bunny begins to finish crying as she clears up the last of the tears she gets up from the couch and turns to me.
"This was really nice... thank you." she says trying to keep the tears from coming back. I look towards her and say.
"It was no problem at all, hey how about a movie again tomorrow, you could bring the rest of your co-workers here in the castle. We could make this room into a theater." I say envisioning it out in my head, as I stand up from my seat on the couch.
"Really? You would let me bring my friends along?" She asks.
"Yeah, just make sure to get them to bring snacks, I don't think I could keep bringing my own. It was hard enough to get hem here either way." I say shrugging my shoulders. Dust Bunny wraps her forelegs around my waist as she stands up on her hind legs.
"This is going to be so fun! I'll tell everyone when I get the dorm. Which actually now that I think about it is actually only a couple doors down." Dust Bunny says with a blank look on her face.
"Convenient, I'll see you tomorrow, I got to get some sleep." I say as I feel a yawn coming on. Jesus I'm getting old. Dust Bunny nods and turns to the door.
"Have a nice night Jack."
"You too Bunny." I say as I watch her exit the room. I fist pump in private. I just made a friend that isn't one of the Princess'.
I leap back onto the couch and put my hands behind my head and let the next movie play out the beginning sequence. I think my life is going to be good from now on, nothing could ever bring me down. I think as the sweet embrace of sleep takes me.
Location: Unknown PoV: Jack Age: 14
"Okay kid, it's your time to shine." Someone says from behind the door.
"Okay, hold up a second just need to readjust the specs." I say holding onto the piece of eye wear that will be my best piece of equipment from now on.
"Kid, you better get out here now while you have the time, or we're going to send you back, you hear me?"
"Okay okay, I'm coming!" I say getting up off the floor and putting the glasses on.
I enter a room filled with computers filled with data, images and video feed from the soldiers head cams.
"Welcome to the base of operations, we were told you were the best out of training and you get to command you're first squad of troops. Nothing major, just some recon. You do well and maybe you can keep doing this, and if you fail? Well, there's no room for failure in here son."
The room was filled with people, they all had their eyes on me, some faces I couldn't read, others, they looked like they didn't even want me here.
"Okay, so what squad do I get command of...?" I ask trying to avoid eye contact with anyone and everyone. Suddenly a voice sounds over a system in my shades.
"That would be us kid, the squad names Roaring Sun, don't ask about the name because it wasn't my idea." I hear someone else sound off from the glasses.
"Hey! It's a cool fucking name, alright?"
"Man, in your dreams."
"Knock it off ladies, listen, your jobs simple, if they get into a jam help them out, if they don't, your jobs even simpler, sit back and relax."
"Okay." Is all I say.
"Good, now you guys are coming up on an abandoned coal mine, our intel suggests that somebodies been in there. We need to go in, see if there is any evidence that people have set up camp and get you the hell out."
"Okay everybody, let's move out!"
Everything went perfect, no hostiles, no civilians, nobody. The video feed I was watching from my glassed let me see what ever the soldiers could see. So far, everything was quiet. A little too quiet. They made it into the town and looked all over the place but nothing suggested that people were there. So they decided to move into the mine itself. It was just big enough to let them in, but it was single file. They kept making their way down into the mine nothing changing. The light that had been supplied by the sun was now gone and the only light was coming from flashlight the troops carried.
"If the intel was correct they should have been up in the town, not down here." I say shaking my head. Something I noticed was that from the opening of the mine all the way down to where ever they were in it, a sprinkler system lined the roof of the cave. I finally let my paranoia get the better of me.
"Guys get out of there now!" I yell into the microphone.
"What the hell's going on kid!? What are you talking about?"
"Look up, and tell me if you see what I'm seeing!"
"Okay, I see sprinklers, what the hell does that mean?"
"Why the hell would they put a sprinkler system in a tunnel that's barely big enough for a grown man, let alone a fire?!"
A moment of silence before the video feed turns the other way and I hear yelling over the specs.
"Everybody get the fuck out of here! It's a trap!"
"Get the fuck out! Now!" I was not having this be on my hands.
At this the other video feeds turned back the way they came, but were stopped when they heard a rumbling coming from the ceiling. They all looked up to see that the sprinkler system was rattling as if something was rushing down it's pipes. And before they knew it, a greenish mist poured down from the ceiling and began to envelope the soldiers. The next thing that was present was the coughing, violent coughing and hacking. Everybody had space between each other so I had full view of what the mist was doing to them.
After the coughing came the vomiting. It was either lunch, blood, or a mixture of both that the soldiers were vomiting. Not long after, came the screaming and the writhing as the soldier in front of the camera began to claw at his skin as if trying to remove something, begging for it to stop. His skin began to turn black as he clawed, still small amounts vomit and blood poured from his mouth.
"Get the feed off!" One of the people in the room screamed. "The kid doesn't need to see this!" Most were frozen with faces the color of green, others were frantically trying to shut the connection off. And me? I just sat there. Sat there, while my first and most likely last squad died before my very eyes. My mouth was hanging open from what filled my vision, the only thing I could see, was my squad. The camera had long hit the floor of the tunnel but was still aimed at the man in front of it. His face locked into a silent scream, as bits of black flesh were torn away, blood was still pouring and the contents of his mouth had long fallen out. As if they had rotten away.
The glasses were removed from my face, the image gone but still there. I turned to look at everyone else in the room. They all were still looking at me, their expressions all the same. A look of worry.
"Hey kid..." A man said from right beside me. I turned to look at him and what I saw brought the images back to crystal clear view. The man in front of me was in the same state as my squad. Skin charred black, flesh dangling from parts of his face. He put his hand on my shoulder and squeezed as he said in a raspy voice, "It's all over."
I jolted upright from the couch and was met with the sight of a crowd of ponies, the Princess's were seen also. I scanned the crowd but something was off, there was other people, just standing there, faces I knew, they were all of my previous squads. I was drenched in sweat as I looked at the faces in the room with me. The faces from my time on earth though, I had thought they were dealt with.
I hear Dust Bunny speak up, "Jack? Are you alright?" I don't say anything though. Looks of worry were apparent over all of their faces.
"Out." I say quietly.
"Is there something you might want to talk about?" Celestia leans in from her position.
"Everybody. Out. Now!" I yell pointing towards the door. Everybody but Luna and Celestia walked out of the room.
"Jack, you need to talk about this, what is going on?" Celestia asks as she takes a step forward.
I snap my fingers sending them out with the rest of the ponies in the hall way, a look of surprise dawns on their faces as the door to the room slams shut and locks.
"What the fuck is this!?" I shout looking at one of the soldiers.
They all look at each other but only one replies back.
"We don't rightly know, but it may have something to do with the separation."
"But why are you here right now, I thought Project Nightmare handled all of this!"
"Again, we don't know, we only know what you know right now."
"Raaagh! Fuck me! I'm gonna snap some necks if someone doesn't fucking give me an answer!" I say throwing a fist the wall, putting a crack in the marble.
"Sir calm down! Remember that the Project fixed all of this, you don't want to relapse, especially in a peace loving place like this." He says looking around the room.
"Don't you think I know this already!?" I take a deep breathe and try to relax.
"You said it was because of the separation, Jake will be here today or tomorrow and all of this will blow over, I'm sure of it." I say putting a smile on my face.
Location: Golden Oaks Library PoV: Jake
"Jake! Wake up! You're needed up in Canterlot, it's an emergency!" I hear Twilight shout from behind the door.
"I already know, I'm dressed and ready to go! Get in here!" I say shouting at the door.
A group of ponies came through the door, there were the Elements of Harmony and Spike. I grab most of them by the barrel and the others latch onto me. "Hold on tight!" I say as we teleport out off the room, leaving behind a cloud of confetti and a bad smell.
We burst through a set of doors and begin running through the hallway and make a left turn. "What's going on? The letter I got said there was something wrong with Jake!" Twilight said as we ran down a corridor to a set of stairs.
"I'll tell you later, but first. We have to get to Jack before he relapses!" I look to the top of the stair way.
"Twilight can you get us up there? It'll save us time." I say looking at Twilight, she nods and her horn lights up with magic.
We burst through another set of doors and continue to run, this time we spot a crowd of ponies and the Princess' all looking at the door to Jack's room. We come up along side the crowd and Celestia notices me and makes her way to me.
"What's going on, the maids heard him shouting and screaming in his room so they got the guards, and apparently the guards came to me when they said they couldn't get him to calm down or wake up, Why is he acting like this?"
My eyes don't leave the door while I say, "Do you remember how I said we were in the military as some form of teacher or leader?"
"Yes...?"
"Well, the first squad of soldiers Jack led, they died in a small tunnel from a chemical weapon."
"Grief is one thing but why is he acting like this?"
"Our technology is more advanced than your own, the stuff Jack was using allowed him to see what the soldiers were seeing, hear what the soldiers were hearing, basically, put him in the battle without actually putting him in the battle."
"He saw first hand accounts of a lethal chemical weapon being put to use on real people, his other squads though, that's a story for another time." I say as I listen to the shouting continue from the room.
"He began to grow violent with his teachings, they put him on training the recruits and he sold the leaders this bullshit idea about how he could make them the best. And they bought it, they gave him full jurisdiction to do what ever he wanted with the squads he taught. When one of the recruits stepped out of line and disobeyed him because of his age, the kid broke his arm in two different places and sent him to the firing range, and told him to make no mistakes."
"He would have night terrors every night, most of the time he would stay up, days on end. So his nightmares were accompanied by hallucinations, the kid went mad."
Visible cracks began to grow on the marble walls as crashes were heard from the room.
"He grew more and more violent each day until one day, he got out of control and he was sent to Project Nightmare." My eyes still didn't leave the door as more and more shouting and screaming was heard.
"He had to stay awake while his body was partially numbed and strapped down to a table, as the doctors opened his skull, removed a chunk of his brain and hooked a chip up into the section that was removed. And right now, it looks like the chip is cleaning the place out."
"What does that mean?" Luna asks from her position next to Celestia.
"All of the stored terrors are working their way out from the chip and into his mind while the chip resets for further use."
"Again, what does that mean?!"
"His mind and body are in overdrive as he's trapped in some kind of day-mare... I honestly have no clue what to do, this is the first time it's happened in a while, it's probably best just to let it play out."
"But wait a minute, I thought that you helped him with this kind of stuff. Couldn't you just help him now?"
"Right now? That would be horrible. The chip stores whatever it deems to be damaging inside of it. Right now it sucking all of that in and releasing it outward. If I were to try and help him, the very essence of what I am would cycle trough the chip and then into him and outward." I shudder at the thought.
"Well, somponies got to do something!" Dust Bunny yells out looking at me, Luna, and Celestia.
"Wait! You said that he was in some kind of day-mare, correct?" Luna says. I nod my head at this. "We are the Princess of Dreams, We could try and get Jack out!"
"I don't know, last time I tried that, I had ended up fighting him in his own head. Even though I am what I am, I still lost. His mind, his domain."
"Still worth trying though!" Luna says as she grabs my arm and her horn lights up. The next thing I knew was the feeling of falling asleep.
"Wow, you do know that we could have just walked into the room he was in right?"
"I wanted to see what he was seeing. It might help us help him."
"Well, there he is, help him." I say pointing towards the sitting figure of Jack.
"Hi Luna, Hi Jake. What brings you to the neighborhood?" Jack says from his position in a chair facing towards Luna and I.
"You have to wake up Jack! Everypony is worried about you!" Luna says taking a step towards Jack.
"No, I'm not waking up until these bouts of self hatred are over with. And that's going to finish in a couple of hours."
"Luna. I don't think we're in his dreams." I say stepping forward towards Luna as I look around the room.
"Very astute there Jake. A round of applause." He says giving off a gold clap.
"Then, where are we? I took us into his dream!" Luna says as she looks back at me.
I couldn't help but laugh at their faces as they looked at their surroundings. "Well?! What do you think?! I've been redecorating the place, for visitors, but I don't many that often." I say as I raise a hand to the walls. What filled my vision as I looked was corpses, hung like meat to dry, their flesh spread out like wings as they hung from their own intestines. "Beautiful." I said to myself.
The room itself was the same as the guest room given to me, but I just thought that it was missing something. I continue to watch them as they sit there in silence and soak it all in. Jake, looking rather bored. And the pony Princess that went by the name of Luna, looked rather green. Every so often the scene around us would falter and go static for a second like a television screen.
"Nothing? None of you are going to say anything?" Again I laughed. "Outside of this, I'm probably going through all the stages of loss right now."
"Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. And last but not least, acceptance. After that, this and me? We're gone until next time."
"Jake, if you're the embodiment of Jacks insanity... what is he?" The pony princess points towards me.
"Well you see, even if Jake were to keep the memories from Jack, he stills remembers it like it was yesterday, all that's changed was the point of view, as if he were looking through his eyes." I say while lifting my hand to point at my counterpart.
"And every so often he remembers that it was his fault, that his age and lack of experience was what caused those men under his command to die like they did."
"Even before all of that he was still broken. With his ability to turn a battle to his favor and all of the self defense training his military family could offer to someone of his age, he developed a sort of god complex. His friends ended up hating him and vice versa. Even the schools he went to ended up being fed up with him."
Nobody moved as I stopped talking to take in a breathe and sigh.
"But there was one thing he could never see, even I can barely understand it, in the end... he was set up to fail. To fail and still come out on top. Literally, he was set up to fail those missions when those men were under his command, just so all this could be possible."
"You're telling us, that somepony was sick enough to put him through all of that? Just so they could put you in his head?"
