Everlost

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Escape
Wild mental patient chase
Split personalities

Escape

Celestia thought of the mental facility, activated her magic, and teleported the entire group there, the smile she had on quickly vanished as blaring alarms and flashing lights invaded her senses. "What is going on here?" She asked to the nearest attendant.

"Princess! You must help us, the new patient that Luna brought in has escaped!" The attendant said quickly, sounding very worried.

"What? How could this happen?" Luna demanded.

"I don't know! One second he was there, the next the door was wide open and his straight jacket was on the floor! Do you have any idea how he did that?" The attendant replied.

"Do you know if he is still in here?" Luna asked, avoiding telling her what Sargast was.

"Well, all of the doors leading outside are still locked and-" She was cut off by the sound of a door being blasted off it's hinges, as well as many shouts of "There he is!" along with many sets of pounding hooves. The small group of ponies rushed outside to see a green and brown blur go over the horizon, along with what looked to be a chunk of earth being carried by it.

"I'll try and catch him!" Rainbowdash shouted, taking to the skies. She strained her wings and was soon behind Sargast. "Sargast! Come back! They were just trying to help you!" Rainbow shouted.

"I am sorry floory! I have to do this!" Sargast whirled around and threw the piece of marble floor at Rainbowdash, the throw looked quite lazy but the rock flew from his hooves as if he had just hit it with a train. Rainbowdash yelped and dodged, loosing a lot of speed, she looked up to see a huge blast of dark lightning resembling a rainboom, as well as a blur of green speeding towards Ponyville at speeds that exceeded even her capabilities. Rainbowdash flew back to the group of worried ponies.

"Well he is still insane, and he got away." She said.

"How? You're the fastest flyer in all of Equestria!" Pinkiepie giggled.

"He threw the stupid piece of floor at me." Rainbowdash grumbled. Pinkie burst out laughing, and the rest of the group seemed to be suppressing smiles. "After that he flew off at speeds I didn't even think were possible!" Rainbowdash finished. Luna sighed.

"Was there a bolt of dark lightning following him?" Luna asked.

"Yeah, why?" Rainbowdash said. Luna sighed again and took a deep breath.

"Sargast is a necromancer." Luna said flatly. The entire group gasped and the attendant fainted.

"Sister! Why did you not tell us this?" Celestia asked, astonished at her sister, Luna had never kept these types of things from her before.

"First of all, Sargast isn't evil like Deadriser, you all know that." Luna said, nodding towards the elements of harmony. "I didn't tell you because of that, I didn't want any of you to think he was evil, he didn't want you to think he was evil. Deadriser used to be his master, I believe that is why he went insane after, after Sargast killed him." Now Celestia frowned.

"He killed Deadriser?"

"Yes." Luna confirmed.

"Oh! Did you know that Sargast goes really crazy from time to time? He killed a giant metal thingy to protect us!" Pinkie said.

"He what?" Celestia was flabbergasted (flabbergasted is such a fun word.) "Sister, you should have told me of this! He is a extreme danger to Equestria!"

"Trust me princess, the only pony he is a danger to is himself." Rainbowdash said. Celestia turned to her.

"Why would you say that?"

"Well he seemed to have thought the floor was his only friend, he also was shouting random foods as we brought him here. And he put the straight jacket on himself, while talking about fluffy kittens." Rainbowdash said with a small chuckle.

"Well we had better find him before he gets himself killed." Celestia said.

"Why would that matter? Its not like he actually dies." Rainbowdash asked.

"Well he could also really mess something up, you never know what kind of trouble a mental patient can get into." Celestia said while thinking about her past experiences with mental patients.

"Sister, you should stay back at the castle and run the country, we could be gone for a long time."Luna said to her sister.

"True, okay, good luck my little ponies!" Celestia said as her horn lit up again. She then disappeared in a bright flash.

"Where should we look first?" Twilight asked.

"He was heading off towards Ponyville when I lost him." Rainbowdash said.

"Ponyville it is!" Twilight said, her horn lighting up.

"Don't worry Sargast, we're gonna find you." Pinkie said, cheerful as ever, then they were gone in a flash of violet.

***

I was flying faster than I ever flew before, it was amazing! I was still a little mad about how my so-called friends locked me up in that stupid place without even asking me first! I mean, come on! I even asked for some fluffy kittens but did they give me fluffy kittens? Nooooo, they locked me in a fluffy room with no kittens whatsoever! "Don't worry floory! I will avenge you!" I said to myself as I flew towards my home. Soon Ponyville came into view, and I saw my house sitting on the outskirts of the town. I flew straight for it, crashing in threw the roof and landing in a heap at the base of my stairs. I looked around, where were my cucumbers? I walked over to my fridge and opened it up, where was my cereal? Next I walked over to my cupboard, opening it up I gasped as I saw a huge lack of my dairy products. "Somepony has robbed my fridge!" I slammed my cupboard door and stormed up into my washroom, and stopped in my tracks. "Floory!" I jumped to the floor, stroking to bathroom tiles. "Oh floory I missed you soooo much! Wait a minute, you aren't floory! IMPOSTOR!" I yelled, jumping up from the floor. "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH FLOORY?" I yelled at the tiles, I was going to continue when there was a knock at my door.

"Are you alright?" Came Scootaloo's voice from the other side of my door.

"HELP ME! SOMEPONY HAS STOLEN MY DAIRY PRODUCTS!" I yelled at the door, tumbling down the stairs. The door opened.

"Sargast?" Scootaloo said, looking at me quizzically.

"OH. MY. GOSH.A TALKING PUMPKIN! I KNEW THEY EXISTED!" I yelled running over to the orange filly. "Why is your stem purple?" I asked her.

"Wow, you must have really hit your head Sargast, i'm Scootaloo, don't you remember me at all?" The filly asked me.

"AHA! THE PUMPKIN IS A SPY! Tell me you little talking pumpkin, how do you know my name?" I asked Scootaloo.

"Sargast I am NOT a pumpkin, and I don't like you making fun of me!" Scootaloo said to me.

"There is my cucumber! I was looking for that!" I said, running over to a green pepper.

"Hiya Scootaloo! Watch'a doin?" A voice said.

"Oh hey Applebloom, hi Sweetie Belle." Scootaloo said. "I was checking on Sargast cause he cra-"

"SEE! THE PUMPKIN KNOWS MY NAME!" I yelled, pointing a Scootaloo.

"Hey! Sargast that isn't nice!" Applebloom said to me.

"How do you know my name hmmmm? Are you and the pumpkin in cahoots?" I asked, now pointing a Applebloom.

"I think he's nuts." Scootaloo whispered to Applebloom.

"I heard that! You are a very mean pumpkin." I said while pouting.

"Well you did just call Scootaloo a pumpkin." Sweetie Belle said to me.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME! THIS TOWN IS FULL OF SPIES!" I said, running for my window. I jumped out and took flight, leaving Ponyville behind.

"Well that was, interesting." Scootaloo said to her friends. They all nodded.

***

Twilight deposited her friends and herself off at her library. "Okay girls, lets all search for Sarga-" She was cut off by a knocking at the door. "Hello?" She called, opening it up revealing Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom. "Hello girls, you haven't happened to see Sargast anywhere have you?" Twilight asked hopefully.

"Weeellll" Scootaloo began.

Author's Note

Hey guys/girls! You may have noticed that there is a new tag on the story, random. That is there because of the times when it switches to Sargast's point of view. Also this part of the story will not be very long, mostly because there isn't a huge plot line that I can base off of this. Hope you enjoyed it!

-Darkportal.

Wild mental patient chase

"So, which way did Sargast go again?" Twilight asked over Rainbow's loud laughing.

"He headed off into the Everfree!" Applejack said to the purple alicorn.

Rainbow collected herself again to say "Probably to get another piece of flooring from Deadriser's place." After her very insightful prediction she broke down laughing again.

"Well we had better get going if we are going to catch him." Twilight said, elbowing Rainbow in the side. Her horn then lit up and they disappeared in a flash along with a small *POP*.

***

I looked around, there were these weird menacing yellow eyes all around me. "Hello, are you spies? I do not take kindly to spies." I said to the nearest set of eyes, I was answered by a low growl. "Well you don't need to be that ang-" I was cut off by timber wolves jumping me from all sides. As the first one reached me I turned around and kicked it in the muzzle, flattening it's face. The wolves then backed off a little and seemed to be a little more cautious. I looked behind me to see three wolves jump at me together, trying to use their sheer numbers to take me down, to respond I casually stuck out a hoof and dark lightning started to jump off of it. I remembered what my old master once said; Never eat rotten tomatoes, it probably went more along the lines of you are much more powerful than me, so you don't need a wand to cast your dark magic but it really didn't matter as the lightning shot out of my hoof and fried the three timber wolves in an instant. I kept doing this but I was soon overwhelmed and had to retreat to a little cabin thing. "LET ME IN THE SPIES ARE TRYING TO KILL ME!" I yelled pounding on the door. There was a noise inside and the door opened soon after, letting me rush in.

"Who are you, how do you do?" I looked up and saw the speaker, it was a zebra with a strange looking sun on her flank.

"WOW! A LION!" I yelled, jumping up. "I SAW YOU ON THE ANIMAL CRACKERS BOX!"

"What are these animal crackers you speak of? Are they a snack that you love?" The zebra said, realizing that this pony was not right in the head.

"Hey wait a minute, I dare you to say orange!" I said to the zebra in a low voice.

"Why would you want me to say orange? I think it is quite..." The zebra's eyes shrunk until they were but pinpricks, her mouth hung open, then it closed and she face-hoofed. She looked like she was about to slap me across the face, but a loud popping noise made her stop.

***

Twilight was a little bit groggy after this spell, it had used up her magic more than she thought it would. "Zecora, have you seen a green and brown pegasus fly by?" She asked, before opening up her eyes to see said nutty stallion smirking at the zebra. "Sargast!" He looked over at her and his expression went from amused to frustrated in the blink of an eye.

"How do you know my name?" He said a little too gruffly, he sounded like a commander from the royal guard. Twilight's breath caught in her throat as she saw him completely, she had never gotten a good look at the stallion ever since the fight with Deadriser, he had always been facing away from her or had been moving too fast to get a clear image. Now she saw him, he looked very depressed, his eyes were a deep, sad blue. His coat had darkened a little and he seemed to have grown wrinkles.

"Sargast, you don't remember me?" Twilight said, still a little surprised at how Sargast had changed.

"No, and I don't think I would care to if I could." He said before walking over to the door and opening it up, to reveal a group of very pissed off timber wolves, he slammed the door again. "Anypony else want to deal with the puppy dogs?" He asked the group, they all shook their heads. "Fine, suit yourselves." He then opened up the door again and walked out, shortly after however there were sounds of branches breaking and of dogs yelping in pain. Rainbowdash rushed to the door to try and chase Sargast, but by the time she had gotten there he had already dispatched the wolves and was flying in the general direction of the Griffon Empire, Rainbow tried to give chase but once again couldn't keep up.

"How did he get rid of those wolves so quickly?" Luna wondered out loud.

"I think his necromancer powers are growing, or returning to him. And he seems to be heading off in random directions each time we find him, so we better get some help before he ends up somewhere where he could do a lot of damage." Twilight answered her.

"You mean like the Griffon Empire?" Rainbow said, flying back to the group.

"He isn't, is he?" Luna was now very worried, if Sargast ended up there he could upset the entire pony-griffon peace and start a new war. Rainbow nodded to confirm what she just said. "We need to get my sister's help, and inform the griffons that they may have a mental necromancer heading their way." Luna said to nopony in particular, then her horn lit up and the group was sent back to Canterlot, leaving a very pissed off zebra in her house to figure out a way to get around rhyming something with orange.

***

I had no idea where I was going, and I didn't care, anything to get me away from that pesky group of ponies. "They were trying to lock you up! I know they were dumbass, you think i'm stupid or something? Well smartass, we couldn't call each other stupid, because we are all the same pony!" Sargast's three different personalities were arguing again, and it was giving him a headache. "Can it just be that only one of us talks, were getting a headache. NO! NO!" Sargast winced as his rational self was shot down by his two other, crazier personalities. The one that was most prominent was his psychopathic murderer self, it was taking the roll of leader in his mind, but it never made good decisions and was way too impulsive. The next one up was his over analyzing self, this came around when he grew worried that he would make too many mistakes or when he feared that he would mess up too much. This part of him would take a situation and blow it way out of proportion by thinking of every little thing that could wrong in a plan or confrontation, and would worry himself until he would start to cut himself off and stay inside of his house or somewhere he felt safe, he would make sure nothing was dangerous and nothing could go wrong, only then would he go back to normal. And the part of him that had the least say at this point was his rational self, the part of him that would never do anything too impulsively, and would never fret over little things. This part of him would be reasonable but protective, it was always in his nature to protect the ones he cared about, whether it be friends, family or even the innocent, he would keep them safe and avenge them when it came to that. The only thing that stayed with him throughout all of his different personalities was how he would hold a grudge, unless the pony apologized to him he would seek out revenge and would not back down, he would hold anything against anypony until a sorry was said. But when these different personalities argued, or disagreed with each other as they were doing now, I will go nuts as I am now, and start to lose memories of things I cared about, start to lose a sense of humanity. Eventually, if unsolved, an argument between my different personalities would kill me on the inside, making me nothing more than an empty shell. By then, the effects of this inner turmoil would be irreversible, and by then, I would be dead.

Author's Note

Sorry if these chapters are coming out slow, I have to study for exams. Still I hope you like it!

Split personalities

"Sister! I have received a reply from the Griffon Kingdoms!" Celestia said as Luna walked in.

"I still cannot believe I said empire instead of kingdom! Anyways, what does the letter say?" Luna asked her sister eagerly, her and the elements had been waiting a day for this reply and were getting worried for Sargast.

"Well a lot of it is incomprehensible, but I was able to figure out that Sargast made it safely there a while ago, and ended up drinking in a local bar until he passed out." Celestia said.

Luna laughed a little "Good thing he never got drunk, but he should have a heck of a hangover."

"You had best get going sister." Celesta said, holding back a laugh.

***

I had never drank alcohol before, but then again I never died so what the hell I thought. Apparently the hell was me having to worst possible headache, of all time. Spending nearly three-hundred bits on whiskey and eventually ending up out-drinking all of the griffons at the bar, by about twenty shots. Though on the plus side I did feel a little more sane today, or maybe that was the painkillers but I don't care, whatever makes me feel a little less like a sack of crap and more like my old self is fine by me. Anyways I received word that some ponies were coming to pick me up and bring me back to Canterlot, so I ran away again cause I know what they mean by that, they mean a mental facility and that stupid straight jacket. I was so deep in thought that I flew right into a tree, making me lose my bearings and drop like a rock, I struggled against gravity and quickly assumed control of my flight. I shook my head to get rid of the bit of my mane that had fallen into my eyes, I was getting tired so I started looking for a place to rest. I eventually landed next to a small lake, the surface of the water was free from ripples and was perfectly clear. I looked into it and gasped as I saw my reflection, I looked like one of those ponies that were in depression, his mane was long and tangled, his coat was darker than normal, but the eyes were what betrayed the depressed look. My eyes were now a deep blue, but were darting around sizing everything up, they showed no emotions, no signs of happiness or sadness, they were just there, nothing more nothing less. "Well, I am officially crazy." I muttered to myself, not to my surprise I got a reply, from me. "Well looks like the rocket scientist has come up with another brilliant observation. What the heck is a rocket? A large booster thing that goes into space." I blinked a couple of times. "What is the point of going to space? Well for one to get rocks, other than that its freaking cool. We should totally bui-" I stopped as a branch broke off to my side, I looked over to see a familiar looking earth pony with an orange coat and a blond mane, her emerald eyes showed that she had not wanted to be seen so soon. "Who are you, what do you want? Well you used know her you moron, but now that we are bickering like little foals we are forgetting so much stuff I am surprised we even know our damn name."

"Sargast?" The orange mare said.

"Oh right, we know our name because nopony can stop saying it." I said to myself. Then the bushes erupted in a flurry of colors, and six other mares stood in front of me, two being alicorns, two were pegasi, there was also a unicorn and another earth pony.

"Sargast we got you now!" The cyan pegasus hollered.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." I said with a smirk, my hooves started crackling with the dark lightning that was my necromagic, it was fun being a necromancer.

"Not this time Sargast." The dark blue alicorn said, then her horn lit up, holding me in place, the lavender alicorn followed suit and stopped my magic using a single spell. The rest of them cheered. Then a large vine also came out of the bush, and darted straight for the orange earth pony.

"WATCH THE BUCK OUT!" I yelled at them, they didn't get my meaning and thought it was just another scheme to let me escape.

"Not falling for it this time, Sargast." The farmer said, rolling her eyes. The vine wrapped around her back left leg, then started dragging her into the bushes. "AHHHH! SOMEPONY HELP ME!" She screamed. The other mares whipped around to see their friend get dragged into the forest, this freed me from their magic.

"Damn it! I told you to watch out!" I yelled, getting up after falling to the ground. "And you could have let me down a little easier." I started walking towards the brush. "Lets put our game of tag aside and kill that stupid plant." With that I jumped into the brush and gave chase to the vine.

***

It had taken only half a day to get the elements rounded up and make it to the Griffon Kingdom, (mostly due to Luna's magic) but even though they had been faster than anypony before them Sargast was already gone. Though they did however get a pretty good story about Sargast out-drinking all of the Griffons in the bar. They rushed off immediately and tried to figure out where Sargast had went. They were walking down the main road when they heard a familiar voice. "Hey dudes! Whazzup?" The group of mares looked over to see Gilda walking towards them. Pinkie frowned, which was really unusual.

"Hey Gilda." Rainbow said, failing at trying to sound like she didn't strongly dislike the griffon. (They never say hate, why should I?)

"Gilda, have you seen a green and brown pegasus anywhere?" Luna asked.

"Oh yeah! He was drinking it up last night! Last I saw him he was rushing off in that direction." She pointed a claw towards the woods nearby.

"Thank you." Luna said promptly before leaving quickly. The group followed the princess for hours as they made their way through the forest and the bushes.

"Can we take a break? My ho-"

"No Rarity, no breaks. Ever." Luna said to her.

"Why are you so uptight about finding Sargast?" Rainbow asked.

"He is a huge threat to society in his current state." Luna responded quickly.

"Really, i'm pretty sure the only threat he is to society is he may possibly kill a fly that is bugging him." Rainbow said back. Luna looked ready to start lecturing Rainbowdash on how society works when Applejack cut in.

"Here Rainbow, let me explain it in terms you will understand. We have a stallion who lost his mind, is drunk off of his damn ass, and just so happens to be a necromancer, and he is on the loose. Normally ponies would want to stop him before he does something like accidentally slaughter a town." Rainbow simply nodded. "Ya'll really don't care do ya?" Rainbow then nodded.

"Wait a minute, I think I heard something." Twilight whispered, making the group quiet down immediately.

"-other than its freaking cool."

"I'll go and try and talk reason into him." Applejack said, then quietly walked through the bushes before any of them could stop her. The group decided to keep listening in case something went wrong.

"We should totally bui-" There was a audible snap causing the mares to hold their breath, and Sargast to stop talking.

"Who are you? What do you want? Well you used to know her you moron, but now that we are bickering like foals we have been forgetting so much stuff I am surprised we even know our damn name." Sargast said.

"Sargast?" Applejack's voice could be heard clearly.

"Oh right, we know our name because nopony can stop saying it." Sargast said, sounding a little angry.

"Lets get him now, while he is distracted!" Rainbow said, and with that they all jumped through the bush.

***

I was chasing after the vine as fast as I could, the elements lagging behind. Only Luna was keeping up with me, my supercharged flight just surpassed all others. Although it came at a price, as long as I was using it my magic drained, very quickly, so I can't keep this speed for long. I had almost caught up with the vine when I heard some muffled screams behind me, I spun around to see the elements getting drug off of the main path. Well except for Rainbowdash who was fighting their assailants. "You keep chasing Applejack, I got the rest." I said to Luna who then nodded. I spun around. "Hey assholes! Come and get me!" I yelled at them. Two of them broke off from the group to confront me, they were a unicorn and a pegasus. They quickly attacked me in complete sync, which was a bad idea on their part for I just used a spin-kick to kick them both in the jaw. With a grunt the pegasus got up off the dirt and advanced on me slowly, more cautiously this time, so it was my turn to attack. I flew at him and got in close so he couldn't kick, and then I let off a volley of punches into his stomach. He fell to the ground and didn't get up. When I looked up the elements were gone.

"Sargast!" I heard Luna yell.

"You get Applejack?" I asked, she bowed her head.

"The vine was too fast for me."

"Well we both utterly failed this time, so lets track those buckers down, shall we?" I said, confidence growing.

"How are we gonna do that?" Luna asked.

"With a crap ton of hard work. Well, that and a can of whoop-ass." I said, punching my hoof into thin air. I was about to continue when I felt something strike me in the side of my head, I blacked out instantly.

***

"Sargast?" I opened my eyes and groaned a little.

"What happened?"

"Well mate, you just got your ass handed to you, on a silver platter. No worries though! You're still alive, are you not?" A unfamiliar voice said.

"Hey, how could he have foreseen that the pegasus would get up and throw a rock at him, striking him directly in the temple?" Another voice said, I looked around, there were two other pegasi on either side of me. One was red, with a flaming mane and blood red eyes. The other was blue with a matching blue mane, said mane was tangled beyond redemption. This one also had blue eyes. Luna was sitting down a few feet in front of me, deep in thought.

"Who are you two?" I asked the stallions.

"You." They both responded at the same time.

The End

Author's Note

Well this is the end of the shortest leg of Sargast's journey of life. Hope it wasn't too bad. Part three will be out soon, and yes, it will be MUCH better. Until then!

-Darkportal