The Faceless Ones
Chapter 16: Bonus Chapter 2: Q&A staring... Efadd!
Previous Chapter“Welcome ladies and gentlemen, mares and stallions, bronies and pegasisters,” stating a slightly robotic, familiar voice, “to the 2nd bonus chapter and Q&A!”
“And I’m your host… Soul Seeker,” Soul said, as he appeared from around the… nonexistent corner…
“Anyways,” Soul continued, “it seems we have had another winner, after some time, and we get to have another Q&A with another one of the main cast members.”
Soul pulled up another script, “Let’s see here,” Soul said as he looked through the script, “today, our interviewer is… E-fad?” He looked off screen, “I got it? Efadd? … got it, alright,” he then looked back to the readers, “Today our interviewer is… Efadd!”
He pulled a lever and a portal appeared above and out dropped… a small ball, red on top, white on the bottom, both halves separated by a black band with a white button positioned on one side.
Soul looked around and asked, with a raised eyebrow, “Efadd, are you here?”
The ball shakes a little, and a red beam of energy shoots out, coalescing into a humanoid blue and black jackal with cream fur on its chest, black, mask-like markings on its face, four weird… things coming out of the back of its head, what appears to be blue, baggy shorts, and spikes coming out of the backs of its paws and one from its chest.
“Ahh… after 10,000 years I’m free! Time to conquer all the cheese and ham in this pocket dimension… done!” he said, a rimshot going off in the background.
“Since when did we get the rimshot upgrade?” Soul asked, then a message popped up on his computer, “Ah, so a recent addition, alright, you must Efadd, the…?”
“Lucario. You must be Soul Seeker. I’ve… heard about you, online,” Efadd stated.
Soul looked over the script again, “Ah, a reality warper,” he looked off screen, “don’t bother fixing the fourth wall until we are done here, it’s just gonna get broken again.”
Soul looked back to Efadd, “So, since you have won the chance to do a Q&A with one of the main cast, who-?” Another message popped up on his screen, then he looked through the script a third time, “... you wanted to interview Slender Man, correct?”
“Yes, I did,” Efadd said while squeezing a pink cloud, raining a chocolate-brown substance into a glass waiting below, filling from the top to the bottom, “and, no, I’m not Discord in disguise.”
“I didn’t think you were,” Soul said, his expression deadpan, “though, I’m unable to decide between facehoofing at the, now, cliche move or be happy you didn’t make a mess while doing that.”
“Anyways,” Soul said, a shadowy portal now appearing beside him as he looked at it, “we call for the summoning of Slender Man.”
After a few moments, a tall, skinny humanoid, wearing a tuxedo, and his face literally blank, with pale skin.
The head of the creature, seemingly started to look around, then the creature asked, “Where am I, and who are you?”
“Void realm number 767, I’m Soul Seeker, and this,” gesturing to the Lucario, “is Efadd, mind you, he is a bit of a reality warper, so keep a cool head with his tactics.”
“Hello, Slender,” Efadd said, while sitting in a chair that wasn’t there a minute ago.
“Hello,” Slender replied, then looked back to Soul, “so, why am I here?”
Soul clapped his hooves together, and Slender gets assaulted by the events of the last Q&A in the form of memories.
“Satisfied?” Soul asked, a bit impatiently mind you.
“... yes,” Slender grunted, holding his head from the headache caused by the sudden intrusion of his mind.
“So,” Soul said, looking at both Slender and Efadd, “15 questions at most, begin,” Soul exclaimed, pointing at Efadd, a counter above, displaying the number 15, falling to 14.
“First question: What video game genre are/were you interested in?” said the Lucario.
“That’s a bit hard to answer,” Slender said, scratching his chin in thought, “I’d have to say… FPSes.”
Soul then looked at Slender weirdly, then shrugged, “Alright, next?”
“So, Slender, who’s on first?” the Lucario said, making a face-breaking trollface as he did so.
“What’s on second?” Slender asked, and Soul realized what was going on, and the counter above went back to 14.
“Joke questions do not count, but are still allowed,” Soul stated.
“Alright, alright. Seriously, next question, Have you played Undertale, followup, who’s your favorite character?”
“Not really,” Slender stated, “but it was becoming popular, and I was going to play it myself… before... this happened,” Slender gestured to himself, while sitting in a recently-conjured chair, “and based on the trailer of the game, I’d have to say the one called ‘Toriel’ would be my favorite.”
“Fitting,” Soul stated, looking at Slender Man, then looked back to Efadd, “next?”
“Ok, next… What is your preferred console, or do you like PC more? Not judging, just curious,” he said, sipping what looked like magma from a volcano-shaped glass.
“Hm,” Slender hummed, before answering, “I was more for Playstation, but I also dabbled in PC games more often than not.”
“No comment,” Soul stated with a deadpan tone, taking a quick glance at the counter above, currently reading 12, going to 11, “next?”
“What Playstation console is your favorite, handhelds included?” Efadd said.
“PS3,” Slender answered immediately, “one, because you can play online with or without friends for free, and two, I prefer PS3 because it is what I started out with.”
“PS3 or vita for me. Kinda like two sides of the same coin… if I can just freakin’ port forward remote play…” Efadd said, grumbling.
“Ahem, moving on,” Soul said, then gestured towards Efadd, “next?”
“Do you want a VR headset? Same for you Soul,” the Lucario said, gesturing to a water-cooled PC next to him, open for any headset.
“Unless you have some work around,” Slender points to where one should have eyes, “and since I can only see the area around me using my power as an extension, I doubt I’ll get a good experience, aside from any noise.”
“Soul?”
Soul shrugged and asked, “Depends, what are we doing? And will it take long?”
“... good point, who knows how much time we have left,” Efadd stated.
“Anyways,” Soul stated, “I will not count the last question you asked, considering it was more of an offer than a direct question.”
“Timber wolves aside, how has the Everfree been treating you? Hope you haven’t run into any Poison Joke out there,” the Lucario said, after a moment of thinking.
“Eh,” Slender started, “it’s been OK, aside from occasionally saving the hides of ponies who should or don’t know better. About the Poison Joke, it was actually something I discovered, but knew was something that should be avoided,” tapping his temple, Slender continued, “my way of perceiving everything helped with that, allowing me to not only find them, but to help avoid them, stars know what would happen if I was affected by them.”
“Did you play any pokemon back on earth? TCG or video games,” Efadd asked, glancing at the counter that read 42 before switching to 8, “Odd, I didn’t cause that to happen…”
Soul just looked at the counter with his robotic eye twitching a bit, “That bloody number,” he stated with a tone of annoyance, “everyone thinks it’s funny to tell that to the bloody robotic alicorn…”
Soul sighed, then said, “Anyways, Slender?”
“Right,” Slender said, looking back to Efadd, “I played a bit, not a lot unfortunately, considering every time I played it, it brought back some… unsightly memories.”
Soul said, “Well then, a simple question with an interesting answer,” Soul then looked to Efadd, “I’m surprised you haven’t asked anything in regards to his life as a Displaced yet.”
“Eh, couldn’t think of any good questions to ask, other than how did you react upon awakening as Slender Man?” Efadd said.
“Well,” Slender began, scratching his chin, “at first, because of my knowledge, or rather, the lack thereof, in regards to my new abilities and form, I was scared, because I could not see anything.”
“Ok, interesting. That’s all the questions I have for you, Slendy” Efadd said as he got back in his Pokéball and bounced off towards the portal, “Cya!”
As Efadd left through the portal, Soul just stared at the portal for a moment before stating, “I did not know I could leave that on, I just thought that after a bit, it’d close itself back up.”
Soul then pushed the lever back into its proper position, causing the portal to deactivate, and looked at Slender, “Well, back off to your universe you go.”
Slender, before he could even react, then falls through a different portal, as Soul looked to the readers and co-author of the chapter, “Hope all of you enjoyed reading, and I hope you enjoyed the Q&A Efadd, hope to see all of you again soon!”
Author's Notes:
I would like to give a shout out to Efadd, quite a nice guy, whom helped with the making of this chapter. Hope you guys enjoyed, and I'll see all you guys in the next chapter.