The Final Free Runner
Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Running From Shadows
Previous ChapterRunning Away From Shadows
by Nine
-Subsection Reconiciliono
The companion that
Will forever follow you,
At least until night
Authors note: well it seems that Nine has made a very disturbing chapter and in hindsight of reading it it makes sense for the plot. However seriously this shit is bucked up.
anyways
this chapter is really long it is probably it is the longest time I’ve had to sit down and type
So on with the story
On another note Ragen didn’t go over this to long
he was freaking raging about what the contents of the chapter were. So their might be some mistakes and what not but Nine promises a select few of small bits and pieces like this.
So really back to the story
Lastly If you don't like gore don't read this chapter their will be a brief synopsis at the end of the chapter to "Sugarcoat things"
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“Well, I guess this is...” I couldn’t finish the sentence, I went into a fit of coughing. My blood sprayed at each gasp that I did as I tried to control my ever shallowing breaths. The pain in my exhausted body was to great.
I was pinned face down only my arm, upper chest and head poked out from the pile of rubble that I was stuck under. The ringing from the explosion hadn’t completely died out yet.
Yellow fared much better his humongous mass pinned under smaller slabs of concrete than me. He however had the misfortune of having both his arms pinned beneath the concrete. He was unable to help himself out and me as we effectively were put out of commission.
We were both bleeding however how badly was questionable considering I couldn't see out of my blood filled right eye.
“Don’t say..” He stopped before taking a shallow breath, then heartily spat a small amount of blood. At least he wasn’t coughing is out like me.
“Yah, Yah” I said calmly trying to keep him from wasting his energy.
It was getting harder and harder to concentrate the world seemed to gain a shadowy sheen that I couldn’t explain, every time I blinked the world seemed to go into it’s own type of vertigo. The next time I would regain consciousness under this repressing mass on me would be my last.
I opened my left eye the world seemed indistinctly inverted. I began to speak
“I don’t...... think.....I can-”
“SHUT THE FUCK UP” his booming voice reverberated off the walls making the ringing come back; He spat out again. We went into an awkward silence.
A figure seemed to stumble just into my failing vision. He was staggering holding his side as his hand tried hold in his blood. His Indigo hoodie drenched in blood where he held. He looked torwads us giving us a bright smile.
“If I didn’t know anybody I’d say that I was your guy’s big brother.” He was all ready digging into his pocket as he stumbled closer to Yellow, popping the cursed cube into his mouth. He promptly pulled out another and stuck it into Yellows mouth.
I blinked but the change in time was evident. Yellow was all ready out.
I blinked again I was being dug out. Noises from behind.
I blinked again two grey figures from behind.
I blinked I wanted to scream.
I blinked They were on them
I blinked They pressed a machine on Indigo
I blinked struggle
I blinked Yellow down
I blinked but my vision was far off.
The next time I would open my eye I was hit by the stale but much more fresh air of the outside. Yellow was hiding in an alley for the moment. Trying to hide from the helicopter lights and more dangerously the lights that shot out from the street lights. Yellows back was tinted with my blood as it dripped from my open wound. I had no energy to say anything and even if I could, I wouldn’t. I heard a sniffle from my friend. I finally fell to rest.
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There we sat looking at the tape that was thrown at Violet’s window.The label read good bye. One of the repair robots from the city sat to work outside replacing the hazardous glass. Eventually Violet got up motioning us to follow. I looked at Orange giving her a sceptical look, Which she was questionable enough to be returned. Her beautiful blue eye’s were swollen, just like the rest of us.
I followed Violet down into the cellar she had made. We all knew we were compromised but at that moment we couldn’t care less.
She got behind her desk and pushed all the useless gadgets aside making room for the small TV she would lift up onto it. Then in a swift motion brought up a small VCR.
Play.
We stood in shock the six of us looked at the image on the screen.
There on the screen was our friend. He was hanging by his hands, blood slowly trickled from him as he was looked down to the floor. He was wearing next to nothing a small cloth covered his groin. The camera holder was going around him, showing deep gashes on his thighs and back.
Once it was done going around, the camera sat there for a moment. Suddenly Indigo started laughing slowly at first then it became maniacal and crazed. He held no smile only his mouth made the noise he looked at us pleadingly the glow from his eye’s gone as he slowly turned grey.......
The screen flickered the image changed and now a more sane version of our friend sat on it.
“Well, hi guys” His smile looked pained.
“I’m not coming back, Or more precisely I can’t” His eye’s whisked desperately back as if trying to lessen the feeling of being pushed forcibly off the cliff.
“So as you know I was caught and their ‘nice’ enough to let me send a fair well.The first thing I want to say, if and when you get this, is keep trying these ass-” He was punched by grey man on the screen.
“Keep trying to stop these mons- wait no!” The man once again stepped onto the screen but stopped mid-way as he was about to deliver a round-house to the back of Indigo’s head.”
“The recipe’s on the fridge for both of my creations” He took in a long breath.
“Don’t cry for me, that would make me sad I was brought in this world to bring smiles and cheer if you cry I’d as might as well slit my own throat because I brought somebody down.” A new look of determination washed upon his features.
“Lastly-” he began his eye’s almost as if on cue looked to me.
“Yah you, Red you can’t hide your feelings forever,” his eyes flashed rapidly to my right my heart shriveled. On my right was Orange.
The screen flickered an indisputable sorrow fell upon the room. On my left was a familiar sniffle.
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I woke up from a terrible nightmare, I pushed myself off the bed hurling fluids onto the wooden floor. I was cold, weak and unable to form full sentences. I looked around slowly the dim light in the room making my head throb. My vision managed to find a small light on the lamp. that sat on the bed side. I fell back convulsing as the distinct cold of stage 2 made me writhe pathetically. my mouth once again filled with bile but this time landing inside a small waste basket that lay next to me. My extremities were in excruciating pain as the proteins rebound themselves together. I managed to open my eyes again looking at the small pictures that adorned the walls, animals.
My eye’s adjusted enough to find a butter yellow pegasus staring at me from a newly opened door.
“Sorry.” I moaned I was so tired my mouth let out the pathetic whisper. I needed rope and fast.
“Could you please...” My throat burned but I continued.
“Bring me some rope?” The whisper was obviously heard as her blue-green eye’s became wide. My eye’s all ready becoming heavy with exhaustion. As she left the room I remembered something Blue had told me about that incident with Indigo.
You shouldn’t have taken that cube. Perhaps if it had been one of a less dangerous nature you would have been unaffected by it,but since it was Indigo who put a “special” ingredient the effects of even minor sugar will send you rampaging. At the time however I was to much in pain to care. We don’t know what will happen until your insulin levels regulate and even then you should never eat a cube ever again.
Later she told me since all the protein in my extremities were practically torn in two I couldn’t really move that much but it is a given that if you are put into major stress all that is negatable.
She came back rope-in-mouth
“Could you please, cut it into four pieces. The rope just looked long enough for me to cut it. I felt myself succumbing to the dream that would drag on my sanity. She did as she was told making me feel bad, but knowing that this was necessary.
“Please, could.....you tie me in.” She didn't move this time
“Please....” The world, like it had so many times before, faded to black. The Night mare began
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I was strapped in a chair in a dark room the light’s began to flicker overhead. They were gently buzzing causing my alert brain to go slightly dull. The lights were flickering rapidly revealing a completely grey room I was at one side a large portion was left for me to view.
At the far end of the room six figures stood, twitching violently. At every flicker they would seem to become closer. My heart was throbbing as I tried to pull myself out of the restraints as they burned from the deepening cuts on them. I couldn’t scream my mouth seemed to be stitched shut.
With one last flicker the light died. Causing the world to fill with a disturbingly silent white noise. The light turned on completely but dimly as I saw my six “Friends” surrounded me. Except they weren’t, their faces held a pain that could only be described as anguish. they had been skinned. the blood caked on their faces. They were also grey.
I was breathing heavily in through my nose, Suddenly a drop of blood started from each one of thier chins I tried to lift my legs off the ground as the drips turned to streams that seemed to pool at my feet. When I looked back up they were gone.
Then something rubbed up against my leg.
Arms, were reaching up from the pool of blood they all had their arms around me. I tried to scream but the only noise that came came from somewhere in my mind.
“Why did you let us die?” the synchronised demonic voice of my friends chorused, but a noise was missing, but all the same sent shivers down my spine.
“Why do you smile now?” Indigo’s voice was the only one to be demonisized.
“Did you care for us?” Blue’s voice this time. It was unnaturally soft and in a bitter sweet tone.
“Did you love us?” Kema’s voice was unchanged.
I felt tears roll down my cheeks, my face screwed up in a face of anger and regret. One of the arms reached my face and rubbed the tear away. The feeling of care I felt of it drained away as its dug it’s finger in my eye.
For the first time I could open my mouth It jabbed it’s finger in the roof of my mouth and pulled me to the floor. The straps undid themselves but instead of my brain smashing agaisnt the floor it fell through the crimson blood on the floor.
I fell for what seemed like an eternity the familiar rushing of air filled my ears.
I hit what I could assume to be was water. The vertigo that swept through me was unpresidented. I tried to swim up but that direction was unclear as all the rest. I barely saw the bubbles of my mouth as they passed my face. My body was failing me. I needed air NOW. My lungs were being pieced by frozen lances. I had to let in a mouthful of water....
I awoke belly up in the pool of water. Torches off the wall suddenly sprang to life and I was horrified to find that I was not swimming in water. Blood filled the pool and as time went on grey sculls arose from the blood. At first it was two at a time but soon the waterway was now filled the bones.
I was terrified to hear a noise from behind. I managed to go upright. A creature with eight heads was wading towards me. The Humongous creature had it’s belly switched by a large mouth filled with razor shaped teeth. The cracks that erupted from it as it ate the bones was grotesque.
The current it was causing was dragging me in. I frantically tried to swim away the bones however made it impossible to do so. I looked back at the creature excepting my fate. I just hoped that It was swift.
I fell into the creatures mouth the teeth dug into my arms removing them painfully. I screamed only to have the familiar taste of iron fill it. I fell into an endless pit falling.
I opened my eye I was laying on grey grass. The sky also held a familiar shade of disgusting non-color. I had no arms my nubs were flailing full of pain as I yelled for all my sorrows and pain. The scene although grey was familiar. I was close to my home.
I got up after many painful failures and slowly started to make myself to the familiar building.
The grass was nice, It tickled my bare feet. The light was warm and it felt good against my back. I continued each step becoming closer to the house.
If this was death it was something that was disturbingly calm. I could say with all honesty that I didn’t like it.
I stood at the door way of my home reluctant to enter. Yet I was compelled to take a few more steps. The grey light of the outside suddenly died away as the door that was open suddenly closed from behind. There was faint red light coming from the door to the cellar I had once hidden under as a child.
I kicked the door open and as I tried carefully to go down the stairs every step produced a long creak from the old wood. In the middle of the cellar sat a single red flame, It was slowly flickering. I continued to go closer entranced by the beautiful light it produced. It bathed the world around it so differently from the light outside.
It flickered and finally died. I stood there unsure of what to do, but before I could take another step the light began again stronger this time. Now it bathed the entire room and as the glorious llght reached it other candles began to light bringing their own specific light to the room. The lights erupted blinding me that light was growing brighter and brighter...........
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My forelegs were burnt red raw. I had been sweating profusely from under the sheets. My coat was matted with the stuff.
I felt loads better, based on what I blue told........based on what happened last time it has been two days. In any case I have to set things straight with fluttershy.
I managed to use my mouth to untie the ropes and slowly got out of the bed. I noticed that the bile was gone. I knew that without Fluttershy tying me when she did both of us would be in trouble. I opened the door that I had seen Fluttershy standing in. I closed the door as silently as I could and started to find new sheets. I was stopped by the white bunny I knew as Angel.
He had his arms crossed and was impatiently thumping his leg.
“Uhhh....could you help me with somethings?” I said in a low whisper.
He stopped thumping and instead closed one of his eyes and cocked his head.
“Well I kind of want to you know... fix the room up a bit.”
He stopped and pointed to a closet at the far end of the hallway. I turned my head and began to trot towards it.
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I wiped the now new sweat from my fore head as saw my masterpiece. The Room was completely sanitatized. The sheets were new the bed frame was positively sparkling, So were the walls I did one last inspection of the room before I headed out, but before I could leave I spotted gently breathing mound in the main room. I smiled and began to approach when Angel stepped in front of me giving me a murderous look. I smiled at him.
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I managed to get her onto the bed I covered her and looked at her sleeping face. I had to fight off the urge to lean down and hug her. So without another word I left the room and opened the door. Took one last look inside and closed the door silently with my mouth.
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Sorry my followers if you were bothered by anything and I will make sure to have Nine never make abominations like this ever again.
As promised here is the synopsis.
After having ingested a special sugar cube from Indigo, Mike is left hypersensitive by any kind of sugar. Now every time He ingest a sugar he goes through 3 steps that his body must go through before he his well. The first is Rampage where he will literally go insane going full steam untill his body reaches the physical limit. Pinkie Pie manages to take Him to Fluttershy's house, Meanwhile Mike has a nightmare about how Indigo died.(Basically torture) Anyways he wakes up and goes into step 2 Where he is momentarily concious but is extremely sick and impaired. He knowing what step 3 is asks Fluttershy to tie him to the bed. He has a nightmare.( unfortunately this part is filled with many symbols) Any ways after the nightmare he wakes up having braved step three and gets himself untied and finally cleans the room that he ruined due to his sickness. He meets Angel and gets it cleaned up and manages to get fluttershy to bed and leaves her cottage
Well that was basically it.