Another Chance at Life
Chapter 36: 36. Endless Running And Detours
Previous Chapter Next ChapterA/N: This chapter will hopefully not confuse you. After the blast that the real Kyle got from touching the body, his mind became a horrid place to be. Whelp, time for the chapter!
I woke up and looked around from where I was laying. It did not look like anything I can remember from last time. Where’s RD’s house? What happened NOW? Ugh, can I ever have anything that is good and won’t ruin my life!? I was still in Ponyville, but it looked different now. The town looked to have an eerie look to it, not to mention some of the buildings were on fire. Great, now I am in a deserted Ponyville on fire and that looks creepy as as Krillin’s losing streak! YAY DBZ abridged reference….wait, got to get serious now.
I got up and started to look at my surroundings. Buildings on fire…check. No body of the real me…check. The other idiots being nowhere to be seen…check. Me being so mad right now I could blow up…double check. I started to walk around the now burning town of Ponyville. If this is in my mind then I hate it! I was amazed at how much things had changed in the time I have been out. It’s like a completely different place.
I rounded a corner and saw two figures standing down at the end of the street. Great more idiots, who will it be this time? On second thought, I don’t care! I started to walk down the street toward them and they still stood there motionless. I even had a moment of stupidity and started to march like Hitler’s army. I don’t give a fuck! But the truth is I really do….ok. I was about 10 feet away from them and they turned around simultaneously. Mother of all things decent…they are so…so…so….strange.
In front of me were two more figures that looked like me, but I have never seen them before. Both of them were wearing army attire. Great drill sergeant me’s. Where is the ‘you can’t handle the exercises’? The next part scared the crap out of me.
“Hello Kyle, I have been expecting you” the one on the right said.
“I am sure you are probably wondering who I am” the one on the left said to me.
HHHNNNGG *brain explosion*. What the hell is going on? Why…why are there two me’s in army uniform, and why are they talking like they are the same person? “Uhhh…yeah. I think I hit my head on the ground too hard back there and I am going crazy now.”
“Such a witty joke you say” the one on the left said to me.
"But sadly it is a shitty day” the one on the right said to me after the left.
ARRRGGHHH, they are speaking in rhymes!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO REASON! Why am I talking to rhyming Ron and Copycat Carl now? Make the rhymes stop! I looked at them with the ‘are you serious?’ meme face painted on my face. “Ok… I’m curious now who are you two, and why didn’t I ever see you before. I already met the other pains in the ass, but never you two.”
“Ah ha, that is where the problem lies”
“Because I am the key to your potential demise”
I’ve had it with all these motherfucking rhymes on this motherfucking street corner! “Ok, before I listen to anymore rhymes from you two, what are your names?” I said to them, trying hard not to be an asshole for all of the incessant rhyming they are doing. I hate rhyming, shut up!
“Think of me being your shield and sword”
“But you may call me Overlord”
My eye twitched then. Overlord? What are we in Carl on Duty now? Ugh, this is going nowhere, they…he better get somewhere real quick before I just leave him here. I looked at them “So….Overlord, why are you the key to my potential demise?”
“Now we are getting somewhere”
“The strain of the spell is causing your mind to tear”
Great figure out what the rhymes mean? Got it. I thought about what he said for a moment and then figured it out. Ooooh, he means all of my personalities are running loose. You don’t say? “Well, what can be done about that?” I said to him.
“The key to getting your noggin back under control”
“Lies in the personalities you console”
Argh, so he means that my personalities are the key? Great, how the fuck to I find them all again o great Overlord? Fucking ass! “So I need to find all of my personalities? What do I do after I find them?”
“These small chests are all you need”
“To end all your personalities’ greed”
The two figures walked up to me and handed me two chests. Ironically one of them had a smile on it, the other a frown. Oh thank you for the gift of sending me on an adventure that will most likely involve endless trials and challenges. What say you now o great Overlord? “What do I do when I find them Overlord?”
“You must decide”
“Which chest they should reside”
I looked at him and smiled for the first time that I saw him. If you get over the endless rhyming and irritancies, he isn’t that bad. AWW who am I kidding, he is just as bad as Comedy, only he doesn’t make you laugh like Comedy does. “Is there anything else?”
Overlord walked away, both figures stepping in unison. I watched as they disappeared in the distance and then I let out a sigh of relief. Whelp, time to get this show on the road! Woo hoo! I began walking around the town then. Searching for any of my personalities that I needed to get. I spy with my little eye….Laziness!
Laziness was sitting on a broken bench a few feet away, he was sleeping and I could easily get up close without waking him. I began to walk up to him and when I was merely a foot away I took out the chest with a frown. Ummm, what the hell do I do with it? Do I just open it? Do I hit him in the head with it? Give me a sign!
I decided that I was going to try opening it first, when I did I saw chains come out of the box and wrap around Laziness. After the chains had covered him they retracted into the chest, taking Laziness with them. “Bye bye Laziness. I hope you like sleeping in chains!”
I started to walk around the town then, I had managed to also get ahold of Jealousy without much trouble, he actually took the box from me because she said that he wanted it, and when he opened it, he sealed his own demise. I have only found bad aspects of my personality so far, and that being Jealousy and Laziness. It was going easy so far.
Twilight had long since gotten back to Kyle’s apartment. Rainbow Dash had fallen asleep next to Kyle’s side and that left Twilight to work on her enchantment in silence. I only need one more thing to complete it, and that is….more of his life essence. I have everything else ready. Now all we do is wait to see if our Kyle wakes up this time and it isn’t just another part of him. Twilight decided to take a nap as well, she crawled up onto Kyle’s bed and curled up, she fell asleep to a thought about how everything will be better when we get this figured out.
Rainbow Dash woke up and crawled in closer to Kyle. She was finding it a little comforting that he was there, even if it was just his warm, un-breathing body. “I love you Kyle. When you wake up and get better I am going to tell you that, you know that right?” she snuggled in closer to him again and let out a sigh “You have the worst luck, you know that? Everything bad that happens, it always seems to happen to you. Well, you are still the coolest human that I know, even if you are the only one, and that you are full of bad luck.” Rainbow Dash fell back asleep with a small smile on her face a little while later.
I was walking around the burning town, practically playing ghost busters. I wonder if I will get the high score? Nnnope! I will have a mental breakdown before that happens! I found another one of my personality traits. He was walking around with a bounce to his step. Who is that, Joy…Happiness…….Rapture thinking about sexytime?
I got closer and decided to put on my best interpretation of Happiness as I could so I would blend in until I knew who it was. I walked up to him and poked him on the back “Hi, are you looking for master as well?”
He turned around and I immediately put on a bad pokerface. “Hi, Happiness, what are you….wait, I’m Happiness! Traitor!” Happiness said to me.
“Hi Happiness, sorry for that. I didn’t recognize you and I thought that I should mask who I was until I figured out who it was. I am on a little mission, I talked to someone named Overlord and he said that for there to once again be balance in my mind I have to round up all of my aspects in these two chests.” I took them out and shown him them.
“Oh, I guess seeing as I am a good trait I will be going into the one with a smile?” he said to me with a smile.
“Eeyup, do you want to go now?” I said to him. I can’t be mean to Happiness; he is just so gersh dern happy all the time!
“Eeyup , I can go now. W-will it hurt?” he said to me.
“I don’t know you are the first good trait that I have found” I said to him with a soft smile.
“I am ready for it, hit me!” Happiness said finally.
“Ok, here goes nothing.” I opened the chest with a smile on it and a bright flash of light came out. When it was gone so was Happiness. Well, that was less than exciting. I want my money back for it being boring!
I then decided that it would be best to take a 10 minute breather. I sat down under a tree with now leaves and went over what was going on now.
A/N: I hope it is getting even more interesting. Who is Overlord? That is for you to figure out. I hope that you all liked the chapter; this was another fun one to write. Can you tell what will happen after the arc yet? Oh well, next chapter will be up in a while!