Wow. It was incredibly bright this morning. It was blinding me! The power of light that the sun was giving off was tremendous. It was so bright that I could only see a blinding white outside. I assumed that it was Celestia playing a prank on me, but something was weird.

After letting my eyes adjust to this light, I slid out of the bed and stretched a bit, moaning strenuously. I had slept poorly last night as I was still getting over Twilight becoming an alicorn. Who knew that a spell meant to pass as a simple final test could have been so dangerous? I knew Celestia was a bitch. 'Starswirl made this spell but couldn't finish it' my ass. Today, however, I had the house all to myself. Cyclon was working, and Jewel was at school. I'm still adjusting to what she was capable of doing those days past, but I'm proud of her...I think. A trip to the bathroom to freshen up was required due to my extreme drowziness.

This place was just as bright as before. The wooden planks on the wall accompanied by those on the floor gave this place a bizarre appearance of sea mixed with forest. The only window was above the shower, but it was just as strong as the others. I moved up to the sink to turn the faucet and let the water flow. I was adjusting the temperature for a perfect face splash. While I waited, I had started to think aloud.

"This still doesn't add up. How could a cliché bullshit story with 'astral alignment' affect any kind of being? I mean, if the Giga Sparkle truly was affected by these positionings, and they existed long before on Equestria, they would have died out sooner. Something isn't right, especially if it only alters their minds. Generally, books said that these things changed more than one's mind. Then there's that 'Click Clock'. That was a dream, and her 'deus ex machina' didn't do anything. I wonder...Is Silver trying to teach me something?"

While think these questions, I didn't notice that the sink drain was plugged and the water had overflowed, freezing my hooves. Oh. How I loathe to say that word.

"Ah crap! Well, better get a towel and wipe this up. Ugh. I hate cleaning."

Doing this this was still hard as a pony, and I felt like my back was about to give out in the angle I was in. Scrubbing out the water with a towel prevented me from seeing that I was approaching Cyclon's stupid giant mirror, so I hit it with a thud.

"OW!" I yelled as I grabbed my head, letting the towel go in the process. "Stupid mirror."

I cringed a bit as I saw how filthy I looked. My heads was all ruffled up with spots of dry mud everywhere, and my mane and tail were a mess. My eyes looked like they were watering with tears because of this pain.

"Perhaps a bath would be a good idea. Maybe I can scrape this crap out of my hair. Yeah. That's right, brain. I said HAIR, not mane."

And I should care?

"...That sounded a little too realistic for me."

"That's because it is realistic."

I started to look around frantically in a bid to try and corner whatever was talking. I couldn't find the source!

"Where are you?! Show yourself! Is it Discord again?"

"No. I'm so close yet you can't see me? You've gone through so much yet you still aren't enlightened? How disheartening."

"Wh-wh-who's there?"

"You should know."

I backed up slowly as I looked around the ceiling for something. I was scared. Was I going to die? Was it already over? It couldn't be! Of course, as I backed up, I stopped in front of the mirror, my body trembling to a proper halt. I didn't see that my reflection, soo after, had suddenly stopped moving. It adjusted itself then turned around and walked really close to the edge of the reflective material.

"I can't see you. Mmmm...!"

Nothing came out of my mouth, but my heart skipped a beat the second I turned to see myself in the mirror. That wasn't me moving in there. It just stood there. Staring at me. My pupils had shrunk, my heart was beating very fast, and I was gasping for air, but my reflection did none of those.

"What is going on?"

"You should know." the voice echoed through the mirror. "Don't you recognize me? I was in your mind this whole time. Twilight and Cyclon met me too."

Slowly, my reflection began to...melt? It was losing its color, turning into some black goopy version of me as it did the same with its eyes, turning them into beady white dots. This soul-piercing glare was scaring me even more. I fell onto my rear as my legs were shaking too much to hold me up.

"That's right. Deep down, you know, but you'll refuse to admit it, like everything else!"

Its mouth slid open with the sound of gurgling muck. It was smiling, but that goop was dripping even from its mouth. Slowly, it lift its left foreleg towards the mirror's edge.

"You always refuse everything. If it doesn't register with you, you refuse it. You refused your turning into a pony. You rebutted any friendship or kindness layed towards you because you do not recognize these functions. You even refuse your own daughter." it spat in the end.

"No! That's not true! I love Amber Jewel."

"YOU LIE! DO NOT TOY WITH ME! I know EVERYTHING about you. I know your darkest secrets, your deepest desies, your greatest fears! I know what you know and what you think. I know what you will plan to do and what you would have done. I. KNOW. EVERYTHING! IT'S. TIME. TO TELL!"

The hoof stretched through the mirror, creating a wave effect upon the point of exit like a rock falling into water, except this hoof turned into a big hand.

"AHHHHH!" I screamed as I reached for the door.

"Ah, ah, ahhh! Nope. You aren't getting away."

I kept screaming and trying to fight for my life, but when I turned around, I nearly fainted. The goopy figure was halfway out of the mirror. It was...me mixed with features of Silver. Instead of being able to escape in time, or having someone help me, I was pulled into the darkness of this mirror world, suddenly fallen into unconciousness.

(I know I shouldn't, but here you go. Fuck da po-lice!)

I was floating again. It was the same feeling as when I traveled to this world. Only, I didn't feel warmth nor safety, nor did I have Silver to comfort me. No. I was all alone. I could move, so that, atleast, was an upside to this whole thing. Slowly, though, I was lowered to the ground. My whole surroundings looked like a moving black smog. There were some lines of white, but they quickly dissappeared under the swirling mass.

"Ah. Awake now, are we?"

"Huh? AH!"

"No need to scream in here."

It was that mucky version of Silver again. It...wasn't attacking me. It even helped me up.

"Where am I? Some mirror world?"

"No. Somewhere more familiar to you...dumbass."

I stared at it.

"It's a word you like to use a lot. I figured it would make you feel more comfortable."

"Seems to me like you were insulting me instead."

"Silence. You best be quiet. You've been bottling up too much fear and anger, and I'm here to make you release them."

"And what'll force me?"

"I'll tell you in the end."

"Why are there detroyed buildings floating in the back?"

That...thing's mouth simply opened again as it looked at me from the side.

"You say you love your daughter, yet, you refused her existence during your pregnancy."

"When?" I stood sternly.

It just stared at me with an emotionless face."The entirety of your carriage. Look here, at this portion of memory."

I small, broken piece of glass floated in front of us. It was me with a bigger belly. I remember that part. I was struggling with the stomach pains, and Cyclon was mocking me.

"Wow. The baby is going to be huge if you keep eating like that."Cyclon burst into laughter.

"I don't have a baby. It's just...gas..."

The image faded away into the smog behind it.

"That was a joke."

"NO IT WASN'T!" the smog began to churn violently. "You deny everything! I'm here to force you to say it."

"Say what?" I stared at it coldly.

It stared back in determination. It took awhile, but then I finally realized, and my guard went down. My worries began to bubble up.

"I can't!"

"Why not? You don't like this situation? What do you care? Who cares if your daughter is going to learn about that? You don't love Cyclon. No. That would make you gay despite your new form and the changes already made upon your psyche. Nooooo."

It was growing bigger and bigger until a new form broke out of my reflection. It looked like a much taller me with a longer mane and tail. It seemed to be imitating a mixture of me and Celestia, but its 'wings' just seemed to be occasional bubbles of goop. Its eyes still remained small and beady.

"I told you I would explain what would force you? Right?" it leaned closer.

I whimpered and trie to flee, but it was no use. I was stuck firmly. Its hoof turned into a hand and stretched into my chest. The pain was unbearable, but I couldn't scream. The goop had stuck itself onto my face. It showed no concern for what it was doing. I could feel that hand crushing my heart. It was a pain too horrid to describe or compare. Finally, I was let go and dropped to the floor. I literally couldn't breathe.

"You have a week. If you haven't told that truth to the entirety of Ponyville and your Twilicorn pal by then, you'll die. Your daughter will see you crumble in front of her and die without being able to grow up with you, and Cyclon will be heart broken and fall into depression."

I was rolled up into the fetal position and could only slightly open my eyes through the searing pain to see it getting uncomfortably close and gobbling me up with its body.

"If you do, you won't die, but...well...you'll see. It's up to you. Death or rejection. Which will have the upper hand...or should I say 'hoof'? Heheheh."

I was completely engulfed and started to float again. Suddenly, though, I felt myself falling quickly downwards. I was screaming! I was going to die! Nooooo!

"SILVER! SILVER WAKE UP! WAKE UUUUUP! You're having a nightmare!"

"AAAAH! Ahhh. Wh-what? I...I'm alive?!" I was gasping and tapping myself."Ah. Ooof. Thank you for waking me up.

"You were screaming for several minutes. I couldn't wake you up. Are you okay? You need to talk?"

"N-no. I'll be fine. I just need to analyze the dream. Go see Jewel. I'm pretty sure she heard."

"Alright. Just stay here and calm down a bit."

"Okay."

He did as told and rushed to Jewel's room. I smiled as I realized that was all a dream. Unfortunately, that didn't last long as I felt something scratching my heart and coming up my throat. I felt like vomiting, but I coughed, instead, into my hooves. It hurt horribly just to cough I looked to see that, on my hooves, was lots of blood mixed with some weird black substance. I felt my panic and fear beginning to rush forth and simply looked up in disbelief.

That wasn't a dream. You best get to it. Tick-tock, Derry. TICK. TOCK.

Author's Notes:

Don't worry. This won't be like the last two. This time, I'll have proper sequencing, and if there's a time skip, itll be gradual with enough explanations beteween each skip to understand what happened in between. I most likely won't be doing those time skips for awhile, though.