why did i land here?
Chapter 24: to many voices in my head
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe moment I woke up I knew instantly that something was wrong, but I couldn't place it, until that is I walked into the main room and saw the orb.
The orb was a small glowing sphere the size of a golf ball, shining a light green color and levitating about 3 feet in the air as it slowly pulsed brighter and slowly dimmed back down, and as I look around I realize that we had all emergered from our rooms at the exact same time, " do you feel that?" Rarity asks, and we all agree, even pinkie, who was once again chasing her own tail, and as applejack asks pinkie to stop spinning because it was making her dizzy pinkie spots the orb, and bounds up to it, grabbing it between her hooves.
It was if we all had turned to magnets as we were pulled together without warning when pinkie grabbed the orb, and this was no attraction we could fight, not even applejack could pull herself away from the attraction, and the world went a pure white when we all touched pinkie because of the force.
With a blur the world came back into veiw, but I could tell instantly that something was wrong because I couldn't see the others but I could hear them behind me, and as I look into one of the little Windows I see a monstrosity staring back.
It was a basic alicorn body, wings and horn, but it was as if all of us elements had been thrown into a blender and blended, just to be sculpted back into one equestrian, from behind me somewhere I hear the other elements scream, but as I try to turn around I found I couldn't move anything but a back leg, and I began to get scared.
As I try to yell out to the others I find out that I couldn't speak, but instead it seemed that my voice rang out in my head, which made it all that more terrifying that I got a answer.
It seemed that all the limbs I couldn't control started twitching and moving on their own, and from behind me I hear all the elements start cussing and yelling what in the fuck was happening, but deep in the back I hear a calmish twilight say to settle down, and I send out another message in my head, getting a answer from twilight that she didn't know what was happening and to remain calm.
It dawns apon me that I had voices in my head, and I call out to the elements, asking if any of them were seeing what I was seeing, and they all cried in unison, "we see, know what's going on?", as I look closer I realize that the weird body we know shared was made up of parts and peices of all of us, the horn was a combination of me, rarity and twilight, the head and mane of all of us, the torso I think was a gray mix of me and twilight, the legs me, applejack, fluttershy and rainbow dash, the wings a mix of me, fluttershy and twilight, and to top it all off my reactor was sitting on our shared body's chest, slowly we figured out that each of us controlled a part of the body, and we universally agreed that we need to see celestia.
The walk down to the other end of the castle was a interesting one, we fell every couple feet because we couldn't sync up our individual body parts actions, but it seemed that the head was shared territory, our consciousness dwelling next to eachothers, and the entire way we fought about who should move next, when we finally made it it was a miracle of mercy, fluttershys front leg knocked on the door, and it opened to show a very surprised celestia.
We still hadn't figured out who controlled the mouth so we had to act out what happened to a extremely surprised celestia, who was looking us over with the curiosity of a cat, but I couldn't felt better that she hadn't attacked us thinking we were a monster, but still it was hard explaining what had happened to us using nothing but gestures, especially considering I only had partial control of the wings and horn and one rear leg, so it took awhile to tell everything that needed to be told, but eventually celestia understood what we were trying to communicate to her and she pondered it awhile, eventually saying that she didn't know or even have a idea what happened to us, " well that's useful"I say, then I realize it had been said out loud, " this not nice!" Says someone else, also out loud, I think they all simultaneously realized that we were saying stuff out loud because there was a rush of words out of the mouth that ended up nothing more than a bunch of incoherent ramblings as they all rushed to speak, " QUIET!" Some one yells, probably either twilight or applejack, " now we know that we all can talk, but please do it in a orderly fashion, now fluttershy speak," "since we all can speak I don't want to say what happened" says who I am pretty sure was fluttershy, " Tesla then" says who I think was twilight, " why do I have to?" I say, " because your, well we don't want to." Says who I think was rainbow dash, I look up at celestia since I had control temporarily, just to see her staring at us funny, like she thought we had gone crazy, and to be honest I would think we were insane too, but I went ahead and told her about seeing the orb and pinkie touching it, and the weird things that led up to where we were right now, celestia listened to me and when I was done she asked to speak to twilight, and I was glad to relinquish control of the head so I could talk to the others, but I found out it was like a conference room.
It was as if our spirits or our consciousness wanted to keep our individual bodies, I could see everyone besides twilight, who had current control of the head, " hi!" I say when the see me, and as I look around I once again get that weird feeling, "uh were pinkie?", I ask, the frizzy pink maned mare nowhere to be seen, they looked at eachother, having realized what I had, and we went searching for her.
The brain was split into different parts, or atleast the shared conscious was, and as we walked along we saw various memories of eachothers, fluttershys parents when she was a child, rarity figuring out how to sew, applejack first time bucking apples, until we found my memories, the others were interested in watching them so we stopped and watched memories of my abusive father, my loving mother, my brothers when they were young, but what came next was a surprise to even me, the moment I awakened here in equestria the first time, this held them captivated as they saw something that my other memories didn't show, my human form.
I was about six foot tall with a bulky chest and arms, hair to curly to even try to style, with a small beard I hadn't shaved for awhile because of all my hours working on the machine that brought me here, but they were mostly interested in how I had acted for the first couple minutes when I woke up, and with some motivation I got them to move it along.
As we walked the tunnels of our shared brain twilight joined us, saying that she had left the body to sleep. We soon came apon a room unlike the others, it was wide open but there was broken chains laying next to it, almost as if something had gotten either in or out by force.
What we saw when we peeked in will haunt me for all eternity, I wasnt even going to tell about it here until I remembered that I had promised to tell the whole truth.
As we looked inside at first I thought it was just like standing in front of a mirror, but when the reflection moved without pinkie moving I realized what it was that I was seeing, pinkamena Diane pie herself, the being that had tried to kill me, and I went on the defensive.
The moment that pinkamena saw me she started speaking, " so we meet again Tesla, this time I won't fail", as she says this she pulls out a large knife from thin air, and charged me. The moment I saw the knife I went on the offensive, building up anger and hate that I could channel into energy, but before I got the chance to release it I thought of something else, and made myself sneeze.
I once again became a skeleton, even though this was only a subconscious reality, and as I look at pinkamena I could see a twinge of fear in her eye, although she kept on charging me. The one thing about being a skeleton that's awesome is that you have no flesh, and therefore can't be cut, when pinkamena finally reached me and brought the blade down her knife and foreleg passed right through the gaps in my skeleton, and when she recoiled to make another swipe I grabbed her with my skeleton mouth and flipped her, wincing as she hit the ground with a lot of force, and to keep her down I sat on her, literally just sat on her, which must have scared her more than anything because she stayed down, even though as a skeleton I weigh only 30 or so pounds, but now I didn't know what to do with her because the moment I got up she would attack me again, and slowly I decided to inprison her in a jail made of lightning, and so I did just that.
The reason that pinkie just hadn't ran away from pinkamena was that she was held with a collar and a chain that she couldn't break, as we freed her she began to cry, she told us that pinkamena was planning to kill all of us soon, and pinkamena tied her up so that she could use her pinkie senses to take over equestria, when I heard this I began to tighten the cage around pinkamena, reviling in her cries as she was badly electrocuted, but dashie said I was cruel so I stopped, not wanting to make dashie hate me.
We were walking back to the room I had first entered when I hear a SNAP! I look back, and to my horror I see that I had loosed my grip a little to much because pinkamena was out of the cage and running into one of the dark side tunnels, as I go to run after her pinkie grabs me by the head and starts shaking me, saying that if I went into the dark with her I'd be dead before I could realize I was dead, and I took her seriously, watching as pinkamena slid further in the darkness, a pair of glowing blood red eyes staring at me from her hidden spot, and we left her, me taking the back in case she tried to attack again, soon enough we were out of the area and we could all breath easy not worrying about being attacked by pinkamena, although I could swear that I saw a pair of glowing red eyes every time we turned a corner, although there was no one there.
This put me on high alert, and by the time that we got back to the first room I was a nervous wreck, looking behind every little book and cranny before relaxing and shutting the door, when a good question pops into my mind "uh pinkie, why is it that pinkamena wants to kill me so bad?" I ask pinkie, who turns around and answers "well, you're the perfect trophy, the time she picked you down and physically tried to kill you was because you would make a awesome cupcake, but now its because you're the element of destruction, the most perfect game in the world, I mean just imagine your cutie mark on a dress, it would be a show of power and strength if she were to kill you" says pinkie, in the most calm and unhappy voice I've ever heard, "but", pinkie goes on
" she won't succeed, after all her idea is to kill you in your sleep, but I know that if she tries to you'll stop her, and hear this, I grant you permission to kill her, just destroy her, she's been driving me crazy for to long", once again this is the most calm and unpinkie like thing I have heard her say, even her voice was calm and unhappy. " so in the case we have a little run in with eachother I can kill her?" I ask, not sure if I heard right, " yepper-ee" says pinkie, her voice becoming its old cheery self, with this I leave the room and start to walk back to where I had last seen pinkamena, the others trailing me a few steps back as I start to walk down one of the dark hallways, our hoovesteps echoing with every movement.
It didn't take long to spot pinkamena, her eyes gave her away, I had a plan, I would change to my elemental form using will power, concealing me perfectly in the darkness. As I walked closer the others stayed back, pinkamena rising onto her back legs, knife in hoof as she watched me, I felt my skin start to change, a tingling running down my spine as I became perfectly black, absorbing all the light that touched me, I saw pinkamena eyes went wide when I walked right by her undetected, almost as if she knew that she was about to get the fuck beaten out of her, and I made the first move.
I slammed my horn into the back of her neck, knocking her onto the ground as I swung a hoove at her face, connecting with her upper jaw with a crunch, in the process knocking her teeth loose, she wildly swung with the knife at me but she missed, leaving herself open to attack, I thrust my horn as hard as I could into pinkamena neck, pleasuring in the feeling of it passing through the skin and into the throat and out the other side, pinkamena last words were "ill get you next time", and with this she went limp, my horn sticking all the way through her neck, blood pouring out by the pint.
As I walked back to the others I still had pinkamena impailed on my horn, making all of them jump back in fright when I came out of the darkness, and pinkie did something unexpected, she hugged me.
I wasn't expecting it, but dashie didn't like it, pulling pinkie off me and telling pinkie that I was hers so take as hike, and with this we walked back to that one room where we first arrived, pinkamena still on my horn.
When I we had once again arrived at the first room I set pinkamenas body on the ground and went to see what twilight wanted to do with the body, even if it was just in our head, as we consult about this we decide to bury the body somewhere, and as I turn to retrieve the body I see something horrifying, the body was gone, a second trail of blood leading out of the doorway, and this actually scared me, mainly because it meant she was still out for me and that she was stronger than I had thought.
We followed the blood trail for what seemed like a eternity, and as we looked up from the trail we saw something massive, a wall and door made completely of stone with our elemental symbols on it, and we slowly poked our heads inside, but were left speechless by what we saw.
In front of us were mirror versions of all the other elements besides me, they were talking to pinkamena, who had more than likely came through the same door, "what do you mean Tesla almost killed you?, you are the fucking pinkamena, you should grow up and fight like you fucking should!" Says the weird other twilight, the twilight I knew was besides me, eyes bugged out at what she was seeing, " OK, lets get you patched up now." Says weird other twilight, grabbing a roll of fabric from somewhere we couldn't see, and that's when rarity fell.
There was a small scraping sound and a thud when rarity hit the floor, followed by pinkies screams as the weird alternate elements turned and saw us," what the fuck are you doing here?" Says alternate twilight, the other alternate elements looking over at us and jumping to attention,
" I have a better question, who the buck are you?" Says applejack, who had been lingering towards the back, " we, my dear, are your alternate sides." says alternate rarity, alternate fluttershy was edging towards us slowly, eyes glowing with anger or insanity, I don't know which, " now is our chance, destroy them!" Said alternate applejack, who had also started to edge closer, " battle with your opposite, we have a better chance of winning that way." Said alternate rainbow dash, starting to fly up in the air, " wait, so who do I fight?" I ask, " that would be me." Said a figure from the back of the room, and as he moved toward I saw my alternate.
He was about the same size as me, but a pure dark black with a fire red mane, without warning he launched himself at me, knocking me into the wall, I quickly was back up, just in time to stop a plasma burst to my head, my brain had already sent the signal, I was going to go elemental, even without my element, and before I knew what even happened I had my alternate on the ground, my teeth buried deep in his neck,feeling satisfied when his body went limp, then I took it one step further and decapitated him with as blast of plasma, blood splattering everywhere, and without a second look I went to help the others.
I helped dashie first because her alternate had her on the ground, about to shove a knife in her heart, but before she could I decapitated her with a ball of concentrated hot plasma, even more powerful than the one I had used on mine, alternate rainbow dash, or atleast her body, fell over and twitched in her death throes, and I turned to help rarity.
Alternate Rarity was currently trying to choke rarity to death, but I severed alternate raritys neck with a beam of lightning, which does the job well, alternate rarities body falling over and going through the same death twitches as alternate rainbow dash did, when I looked up I saw the rest had won their battles, alternate twilight was missing her skin in several places, alternate applejack had her head smashed in, alternate fluttershy was completely split open, guts pouring out everywhere, normal fluttershy was currently in the corner, a large cut on her wing, but pinkamena was nowhere to be seen, not even a blood trail to show where she had gone, but we didn't dwell on it, making sure that all the alternates were truly dead by me blowing their heads off, and we headed back to the first room. Next Chapter: lets end this Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 58 Minutes