I awoke with a start. I was exhausted, sweat coated my body and I had a burning migraine. Every part of me was in pain. I was lying in a field of grass, the sky was clear except for a few clouds dotted around. There was a river a couple of meters to my- Wait, what? Hasn't this already happened? Looking around I could see that I was back in the field again and I had the same injuries as before. What in Tartarus is going on?! Ow! A received a sharp pain from my foreleg as I tried to reach up and massage my forehead. I walked over to the river and drank for a while.

Alright, now what the buck is going on? Uh... I was at Zecora's... I got angry at racists... I was violated by an alternate personality... Celestia knocked me out... And I woke up here? I don't know what's happening... No shit, me. I should head to Ponyville to see what the buck is going on.

I heard the flapping of wings and looked up to see a small golden carriage flying overhead, being pulled by two pegasi in golden armour. Twilight was leaning over the side with an angry look on her face. Looking at the direction it had come from I could see Canterlot in the distance. This is so trippy... Like last time, I followed the carriage.

The carriage stuttered to a halt. The stallions pulling it whinnied and kicked in the air dramatically as their passengers exited the vehicle.

"Thank you sirs!" Exclaimed Twilight again. The stallions huffed in response, then took off and flew back in the direction they had come from.

"Maybe the ponies in Ponyville have interesting things to talk about." Said Spike again as I finally caught up to them. He motioned to me before continuing, "Come on, Twilight, just try!"

"Uh... Hello?" She asked.

"Huh... Huh... H-hey!" I asked, gasping for air. Why is that always so exhausting? The two looked at me with confused faces.

"Are you okay?"

"I don't know anymore!" Wait! If this is happening like last time then... "Hey, is it the Summer Sun Celebration tomorrow?"

"Uh, yes... Yes it is. Why, is there a problem?"

"Well if you count a sexy looking, nightmare-fueled, sociopathic, evil goddess Tartarus-bent on eternal darkness then yeah, there is a small problem." Twilight looked shocked.

"You know about Nightmare Moon?! You need to tell me everything you know right now!"

"No." I'll screw up the timeline if I talk too much. I've got my own plan anyway...

"What?! Why not?!" Wait, I didn't think about how to stop part!

"Because, uh... PINKIE PIE, DISTRACT HER!" Suddenly Pinkie appeared, assaulting Twilight with words and hugs. I used the distraction to teleport to the Town Hall. Rarity was hanging up decorations with her magic. My arrival startled her.

"Oh!" She exclaimed, dropping the ribbon she was carrying with her magic, "you startled me!" That was weird, she said startled shortly after I thought it.

"Well, sorry. Gotta go!" I levitated myself up into the rafters. Okay, my plan is simple- Why am I explaining my plan to myself?! Because I have six hours of sitting here preparing myself to re-fight Nightmare, and I probably wont have the Arcane Circles on my side this time! I need to be sure of my plan! Fine! But hurry up! The less time I meditate, the weaker I'll be in the Nightmare fight! Okay, my plan is simple:

Step one: Meditate to greatly increase power.

Step two: Beat up Nightmare.

Step three: ???

Step four: Profit.

That... Was retarded. Even for me. Shut up and meditate, me!

Six hours later, it was time. Birds started chirping out a song, orchestrated by Fluttershy. A grey maned mare walked into the light of a spotlight.

"Fillies and gentlecolts," she announced, "as mayor of Ponyville, it is my great pleasure to announce the beginning of the Summer Sun Celebration!" The audience cheered. "In just a few moments, our town will witness the magic of the sunrise, and celebrate this, the longest day of the year! And now, it is my great honor to introduce to you the ruler of our land, the very pony who gives us the sun and the moon each and every day, the good, the wise, the bringer of harmony to all of Equestria..." She paused dramatically, "...Princess Celestia!"

The birds chirped along to fanfare as Rarity pulled on a rope. Curtains pulled back to reveal... an empty stage. Ponies below me started whispering about their worries. Nightmare walked onstage in all her sexy glory. Buck it, I'm not even stopping me anymore.

"Oh, my beloved subjects." She said with a silky voice, "It's been so long since I've seen your precious, little sun-loving faces."

"What did you do with our Princess?!" Yelled Rainbitch. Nightmare chuckled.

"Why, am I not royal enough for you? Don't you know who I am?" There was a murmur from the crowd. "Does my crown no longer count now that I have been imprisoned for a thousand years? Did you not recall the legend? Did you not see the signs?"

"I did!" Shouted Twilight, "And I know who you are. You're the Mare in the Moon – Nightmare Moon!"

"Well well well, somepony who remembers me. Then you also know why I'm here."

"You're here to... to..." Twilight went quiet and Nightmare laughed.

"Remember this day, little ponies, for it was your last. From this moment forth, the night will last forever!" She laughed as she cast dramatic lightning spells.

"Not in my Equestria!" I yelled. I teleported to just above Nightmare and charged up my forelegs, releasing a Magistamp onto her head. Nightmare screamed as her head smashed into the platform, cracking the bricks it was made from. She flipped over onto her back, kicking off of her. I cast a Force Barrier to stop me from crashing into the wall I was speeding towards. I landed on my hooves just as Nightmare righted herself.

"You dare attack me-?" She was cut off by a mouthful magic bolts. As she tried to recover, I fired an electrical beam at her chest. It hit her directly. Her armour shattered and she was sent flying back into a wall. I teleported outside to see where she had landed but was struck by dozens of lightning bolts from her in vapour form. The force of them all took me off my feet and I would have been sent sprawling, but Nightmare wrapped her dark tendrils around my neck and pulled me to her until we were face to face. The dark tendrils began to choke me, distracting me too much to cast any magic.

"It is cute how pathetic beings such as you try to stop me. Now your life shall end." The tendrils tightened their grip around my throat. I struggled as hard as I could, but it was no use. I couldn't escape. This was the end.

No. Buck that. I felt an incredible power surge through me, a power that I now knew. The power of the Arcane Circles. It wasn't linked to adrenalin or being a psycho. It was willpower. I got it in the Nightmare fight for a reason; I had the will to live- No, the will to win. I summoned a Kinetic Circle around my hoof.

"EAT A DICK!" I screamed as my KC punch met her face. Nightmare was fired down the street. I summoned a Support Circle and flew after her. She had collided with Sugarcube Corner and reduced it to rubble. I dropped myself a few paces from her. "What's the matter? The great and powerful Nightmare can't take a 'pathetic being such as myself'?" Nightmare climbed to her feet and started to chuckle.

"You think a little Arcane magic can defeat me?" It did last time, so... "NOPONY CAN STOP A NIGHTMARE!" The rays of the moon were absorbed into her. Nightmare grew. And grew. And grew. Soon, she was the size of the castle in the Everfree.

"Wat."

"EQUESTRIA! IS! MINE!" What the buck?! Why isn't this the same as last time?! I summoned a SC and flew up to eye level.

"You have one chance to stop, Nightmare!"

"OH DO I? AND WHAT IF I REFUSE?"

"Then I'll kick your ass!"

"HAH! A PUNY THING LIKE YOU, KICKING MY FLANK? I HIGHLY DOUBT IT!"

"Actually, no. I wont kick your ass. I'LL KICK YOUR FACE!" I spun around, charged up my hind legs with the Support Circle, summoned Kinetic Circles on my hind hooves and released the SCKC Mega Buck! The intense power in the kick was incredible, I could feel static in the air from all of the energy radiating off of the connection between my hooves and Nightmare's face! I could feel her skull shattering into millions of pieces in almost slow-motion. Nightmare flew backwards into a distant mountain which exploded, sending hundreds of flaming, cataclysmic unstoppable behemoths of stone and earth crashing down towards Equestria. The ground beneath me split open into flaming fissures swallowing Ponyville and the Everfree Forest-

"Okay, this is getting out of hoof," Said a strange voice from everywhere at once. Suddenly everything vanished, and I was floating in nothingness.

"What the buck is going on?" I asked the void around me. Surprisingly, it responded.

"We were seeing what would happen if you had unlimited power and fought us again." Princess Luna walked out of the void.

"Where am I?"

"You are currently lying in a bed in the royal hospital in a coma. We came to see if we could entertain ourselves while at the same time experiment."

"Oh for Realta's sake... I'm in another coma? Damn it! How long have I been out so far?" Luna thought to herself for a second.

"About six weeks. Give or take a day or two." I groaned.

"How did Twilight take me becoming a psychopath and torturing her?"

"Twilight Sparkle has had the situation explained to her. She fully understands what happened."

"What about Storm Cloud?"

"Your other self? He has been eradicated."

"Good." There was an awkward silence. "So... We're in my mind right now?"

"Yes."

"So was the thing about the Arcane Circles being linked to willpower true or what?"

"We have no idea. You should probably test it when you wake up." There was another awkward silence. Lewd thoughts crept into my mind. No! Resist! Must not ask if she wants to bang... Must not ask if she wants to bang... Must not ask if she wants to bang... "You realize we're in your mind? We can hear your thoughts here." SHIT!

"U-Um! Uh!" Focus! You can save this! "Wanna bang?" NO! YOU FAILED! Luna shot me a death glare.

"No. We do not wish to 'bang'."

"I, uh... I'm gonna leave now..."

I was awake. The hospital bed was very comfy. I like bread. There was an IV bag. It probably had drugs. I was probably high. Bread is tasty. I noticed Luna was sitting in the room with me. It probably made entering my mind easier. Raisins are tasty this time of year. She was glaring at me.

"Hey..." I slurred groggily, "sorry 'bout asking you that... It's totally the drugs making me think weirdly..."

"You left me after asking for sexual favours."

"Yeah... But drugs..."

"Your bedsheets disagree." I looked down the bed. There was an obvious lump in the bedsheets. Oops. "We will inform our sister of your awakening." She stood up out of the chair she was sitting in and walked out of the room.

"Sorry!" I called out to her. I don't know how long I lay there before Celestia arrived. It could have been eons, time drifting past while the world shape and melded around me. My hair grew longer and longer, overflowing from the bed. Or it didn't. I was high after all. The point is, Celestia arrived.

"Hello, Cloud," She greeted, "I hear you're asking my sister for sex?"

"What took you so long to get here...?" I slurred.

"It's been three minutes."

"Oh... Well I didn't ask for sex n' stuff..."

"Your boner disagrees."

"Oh... I'm very high..."

"It's not that long."

"Ah, shadahp... You know I meant drugs... Have you ever eaten bread? It's good... I think it's made of poop or something..."

"I'm just gonna get your doctor to lower your dosage..."

"'Kay then..."

"You just, uh, wait here..."

"Bye bye..." I drifted back into sleep.

Author's Notes:

Not in my Equestria inspired by:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI5SAZhxCZ8