Universal Apocalypse Life: Episode 6: Neon Party Hyper Helper Part 2

Where was I before? Oh yeah, the whole Neon targeting himself without realizing it kind of… thing… let me continue on with what was happening from before. I’m telling ya, the whole two parter thing is just weird to me. I don’t know why I do it… its short stuff anyways. What am I? A fucking blue square that’s a greedy jerk dick that would put wings on anything so it can sell? … well I’m not…

Well anyways, let’s get back to Neon’s story. So what happened previously was that Neon had a bad dream of sorts, feared that we’re going to leave even though that’s kind of hard for us to do… otherwise we totally would ditch him to go to the mall and hang out with the cool kids instead. And then we started asking him for favors, started calling him our boss, and slowly he started to go insane. Now for the next part.

After all of us asked him to do something for us, we all just bickered where we were at in the dining area of the Party Store for what felt like hours. We just either argued with each other, or we complained and wailed to Neon about something that really isn’t important, but important enough for us to ask him to help us out.

All the meanwhile, the three little demon babies that Arrell brought in that were circling Arrell stopped circling around. Instead, they went ahead and started to circle around Neon. And as the three little demon babies were annoying him and going round and round in a circle, combined with our constant bickering to each other, Neon was… just standing there, not moving a single muscle. He was just standing there in the middle of the room like a statue. He wasn’t blinking.

He wasn’t breathing. He just stood there with a big smile like always and stared off into space. But deep within him, he was thinking. He was thinking about something alright, and that something is something that I can’t figure out, not even with my magic or the portal window as he just stood there… thinking.

About what, who knows what he was thinking, yet he was letting all of the sounds and little annoyances surround him like the air that surrounds us. If anything, it felt like we just became voices in his head, the voice that tells him things. Maybe some good things, some bad things, the bad thing that make you do bad thing. He was just standing there like a complete maniac, a psychopath.

He was already a psychopath, but if our wailing towards him didn’t turn him more into a psychopath, then I don’t know what would do that. He just stood there, watching nothing, just staring off into empty space as thoughts went through his head. And you can only imagine what was going through his head. Not even an insane person would be able to take what he was taking, yet he was starting to show some of the cracks.

He was starting to show signs of weakness that we could not see before that were not there prior. Yet he started to break, but not in terms of giving up and returning our once fruitful lives, but the breakdown of insanity, and evolving that insanity into something more that it is not. Turn insanity into something more than what you could possibly imagine and think up in your tiny little finite mind of yours.

He was beyond thought without reason or rationality. He was simply in a different plane of thought of existence, and what he was possibly thinking we may never know. But as he was just standing there, all cold and yet no bite, truly deep within something was growing. And what was growing was sure not be good in the long run of things. But soon everyone, including myself, was interrupted as one of the skeletons, the left one, from The Ritual Blood Festival Challenge came on by the Party store.

He opened up one of the double doors, and as he was standing in the door way and pointing with his right thumb out the door, he said out loudly as we all paid attention to him, except for Neon who just continued to stare out into cold space, “Hey uhhh Neon! We need you down over at the studio. The finale for The Ritual Blood Festival Challenge is about to begin and the tapping is going to start in about one hour or so. So I’m just saying you should probably start getting your things down here if you want to be part of the show. Just saying…”

And then the left skeleton left and we all remained silent to each other.

But eventually that broke as Arrell then said, “Wow that sounds like it was important boss. You should probably get going before it’s too late.”

I then said to neon as he had his backs to us, “Yeah, Arrell’s right. We should get out of your way so you can do your thing boss.”

Neon didn’t respond to us. He just stood there in cold silence.

Forrest then brought up, “Should we go down to the studio and cheer the boss on like last time?”

Forrest was still in the air by the way, still looking pale and everything.

Mac then said out loud, all calm like, “Ya, sure thing.”

Jack then nodded his head slowly as he looked at Mac and said, “Yeah we should probably leave now.”

And then we all in unison nodded our heads to each other with all mellowed out looks on our faces and started to head towards the double doors of the Party store.

As we were all leaving, I was the last one out, and before I left, I said to Neon, “Ok boss, we’ll meet you down over at the studio. Don’t be late boss.”

I then said to him as I headed out the door, “Alright, see you there boss.”

And then I left and closed the door behind me and the rest of us headed down to the studio. But Neon… he just stood there, not even saying a single word to himself. But the three little baby demons continued to run around him like some kind of playground equipment for little kids.

And he just stood there, staring into a blank, white wall… thinking about something and letting his thoughts roam his endless mind. What could he have been thinking then? Only god knows… and god was probably dead too.

LATER AT THE STUDIO…

We were all there, lined up from shoulder to shoulder, with me, then Forrest, then Mac, then Jack, and then Arrell, standing behind the cameras, waiting for Neon to show up.

I said to everyone as I looked at all of them, “Geez, it’s getting late, the boss should be here by now.”

Forrest then said with a bit of a worried look, “I hope he’s alright. I don’t want the boss to get mad.”

And then out of the blue, Neon arrived just in time as he slowly walked in from the right studio door and right onto the set. He then got behind the little kitchen like counter and stood in place, staring at us with his usual smile like before. Yet something felt wrong about that usual smile of his. It felt a little bit deceitful… well to me at least that is. But other than that, we didn’t see anything wrong with it.

And once Neon was in place, the left skeleton said while being behind the TV camera like always, “Alright, you got here at the last minute Neon! Now today what the Lord Bacniqu commands you to make is something out of the things that we give you. And the things that we shall give you are a dead dog’s head, a cat’s tail, some rotten fishes, and some dead kid’s organs and their blood for liquid purposes. Make something that will appease the Lord Bacniqu and you shall win! And if you do not, well like we said before, we’ll take your soul and what not……… BEGIN!”

And then a black plastic tube came down from the ceiling and dumped all of the ingredients on to the little kitchen counter top and then it left and went back into the ceiling. Neon then grabbed out a meat tenderizer slowly and started to pound the dead, rotten meat slowly, all the while just staring at us and not looking away or doing anything else. He just pounded the meat very slowly repeatedly.

But we didn’t care what he was doing as I then looked at everyone in line as they all looked to me and I said to them, “Alright, this is the part we need to cheer for the boss or else he’ll get mad at us.”

I then looked over to Neon and yelled at him, “Woooooo! Go Boss!”

Forrest then said, “You can do it boss!”

Mac then said next, “You go get them boss sir!”

Jack then said while raising his right hoof up in the air, “We believe in you unlike Forrest Boss!”

Arrell then said while using his wings to hover off the ground a bit and said to Neon, “Do what a boss does and show him who’s the boss… boss…”

And we just sort of repeated those lines, but in slightly different ways to Neon as he continued to slowly pound the meat away with the meat tenderizer. And somewhere in his mind, he was thinking again. And the cracks were starting to become more visible as his smile was starting to become off and move while his eyes twitched every couple of seconds. And the pupils in his eyes started to dilate, while his ears went backwards, and his body started to spaz a little bit with each passing second. Then his coat started to grow that of a darker shade of green. And then it got dark and dark and darker until his entire form became enveloped in total darkness as his eyes remained bright and white and pupils fading into non existence. And then the dam broke and Neon turned back into a demon that he did before.

He had a self contained explosion within and said out for all to hear in the studio, “QUITE!”

He got on his two back pony legs, as his form grew into what looked like an eleven foot demon. His width grew as well, along with his eyes that looked like they were going to kill us. His entire body was blacked out, and the only thing that showed emotion were his pupiless white eyes as his voice deepened and stood taller than us and looked down on us all, even overshadowing the Lord Bacniqu as well. And all around us, fire and flames rose from out of nowhere from the ground, surrounding us all with nowhere to run as Neon wanted to have a word with us as he looked like a giant to us.

He said to us, “I am not your boss! I am your friend! I am your buddy and will always be your friend as you will be mine!”

We were all speechless and all had wide eyes on our faces as we didn’t move a muscle since we didn’t know what was going on or how to respond to this.

Neon continued to say to us while moving his two forearms around, trying to convey his emotions from his blackened body, “I cannot let it happen again! No, I will not be alone ever again! We’re going to be here together forever! As friends! I won’t lose you… but… but you are making me lose you! You…you’re betraying, conspiring against me to leave me! You think I’m too stupid to realize it! No… I won’t let that happen! You’re going to see… you’re going to pay for it!”

Neon’s eyes started to look like they were on fire and he leaned his top half closer to us as he got closer to our face. As for us, we all flinched and stumbled back a bit, not sure where to run off to, but our bodies needed to do something in defense.

But Forrest then said with a sad look on his face, “But… Neon… we were your friends… But then you did something terrible. So we can’t really be your friend anymore.”

And even though Forrest was telling the truth, Jack then said while trying to sort of whisper to Forrest, “Forrest, shut the fuck up, he’s going to kill us.”

However Neon heard what Forrest’s words as he bent his back a bit as he looked up towards the ceiling of the studio and said, “Terrible!?”

He then got even closer to our faces as he leaned and said to us with a look that could kill on his face, “I’ll show you what’s terrible!”

Then the flames around us got hotter and more humid, as Neon raised his hooves up and was ready to pounce on us and attack us like the monster that he truly was on the inside. We all knew it was going to be the end for us, so all five us quickly huddled together and held each other since this seemed like the end as we screamed in terror.

And then suddenly… everything stopped. As in time itself froze… except for me. Everything went to a dead silence. The fire stopped crackling, the screams from the guys stopped echoing, and Neon just stopped growling like a monster. And when I saw this, I looked around, let go of Forrest, and looked around to see why this would have happened.

I said to myself as I scanned the room, “What the hell…”

I then spotted a sort of portal, but an unusual one at that as it looked more like a door that was opened to an endless white void.

And then a disembodied voice said to me in my head, clear as day in my own ears, “Well, what are you waiting for? Go through the door?”

The voice sounded a bit familiar, yet it sounded a bit different. But I looked at the door to the endless white void, and figured it was worth a chance to jump through. So as everything stopped in time around me, I walked through the door and into the abyss.

IN THE VOID…

So I was in the void, all by myself. The door behind me closed as soon as I turned around and there was nothing. Just whiteness and silence. Yet not that white to where I couldn’t see myself. It was like being in an endless room with the same usual gravity, all with me standing on some kind of weird ground and everything was white. The walls, the floor, the sky, all endless white, yet with no one else in sight.

I then raised my right hoof with a worried look on my face as I called out into the void, “Hello!? Is anyone there!?”

I kept turning around and around, hoping to see someone and perhaps see that source of that voice that was in my head. And eventually after turning around enough times, I spotted someone off into the far distance. It looked like it was another pony.

I then yelled out to the figure in the distance, “Hello!?”

But I got no response from the said pony, so I decided to walk up to it while having a bit of curiosity on my face. As I got closer, the pony had his back to me and the pony had a light green color to him. And as I got close enough, it looked like it was Neon. I was a bit worried, not sure what was going on, but then he turned around. Neon looked like his usual self while smiling at me. Yet this was a bit different. His smile felt like he was just the same ol’ Neon.

The Neon that was random and would do random things like kill people and go to random places and hide his true intentions, yet wouldn’t explode and kill us all. He looked more like his normal self. So I walked up to him and became face to face with him, while still be sort of cautious just in case I walked into a trap.

So eventually I stopped in like within five feet of his face and asked him, “Hi? What are you…”

I was cut off by Neon as he then asked me, “Hi Knight! Nice to see you again! Have you been playing with the chickens again?”

He then turned his head a bit sideways to me.

I then said while being a bit nervous, “Riiiight. It sounds like you… but… the hell is going on here?”

I was still scanning the endless void, wondering what this all meant and what it had to do with me.

I then looked back at Neon as he then said, “Do you remember this place?”

I then said to him, “No… I don’t recall ever being here. Why?”

Neon then said to me while I had a look of confusion, “Don’t you remember being here though before? The times that we had together? I was here too once before you know? And then you came.”

As I looked around the void, some memories started to pop in my head as I then said to him, “Now that you mention it, I do recall a place like this when you broke the fourth wall that one time we made the big bang you and I. But… what does this have to do with me? And why do I need to remember this place? We were barely in it.”

Neon then said to me, “No we weren’t. We were here forever. Don’t you remember?”

I then said to Neon, “You’re not making any sense.”

Neon then turned to his left as he then looked out in the distance as he then said, “Isn’t it beautiful?”

I was confused as I had no idea what he was talking about. But then I turned to my left as well and saw what he was saying and there was something there now. In front of us was a guard rail, and beyond that was an endless field of flowers and grass. It looked like a peaceful place and if you concentrated hard enough, you could hear some bird chirping off into the distance. It was like a whole another place right before my very eyes.

All the flowers were blooming and the nearby sky was bright as day. And into the far distance there were some hills, just with no one else around is all. It almost looked like a liminal space; a certain feel to it all. A feeling of that I had already been there, yet never had. I looked out into the field as we continued to talk to each other.

Neon said to me, “You know I saw him here too once.”

I then looked over to him as Neon continued to look outward, “Who?”

Neon then said, “Your good ol’ friend Lawman of course.”

I then asked him, “Wait… you saw him? Was he still alive or something?”

I had a bit of a shock look on my face as I asked that. But Neon just said to me, “Well… do you remember now?”

I started to look disappointed and was feeling like I was talking to a broken record by this point. So I gave a slight sigh and felt like I was getting nowhere with this. But then a hand touched my right pony shoulder.

My pony ears perked up and I then quickly turned around and saw a human like figure. He towered above me; his body was covered in stars and galaxies, as his eyes were pupiless and had no mouth. He also wore a black cape too. He didn’t look angry at me though, just kind of a bit serious.

Neon then said to me, “That’s our old good friend The Universe. Say hi!”

However I had no idea what he was talking about.

But then the so called Universe spoke to me in a deep male voice, so I guess he was a he and said to me, “Don’t mind him Knight.”

I asked him, “Who are you?”

The Universe then said to me, “You don’t remember who I am. But that’s ok, cause right now… I’m not really here.”

I then asked him, “What do you mean by that?”

The Universe explained to me, “I was once alive. I had control of the universe as you and Neon gave me from before. I was playing my part that you gave me as she was playing hers. But then… something happened to Neon that I’m not sure of. And I don’t think I’ll ever know what happened. But all I know is he took control away from me and now I only exist here. I am almost but a memory now. But I can still talk to you… here at least.”

Then he paused for a moment as the birds chirped in the distance beyond the guard rail and from the fields of flowers.

He then went on to say to me, “But that’s not important. What’s done is done and it cannot be reversed. At least for that universe that is. Right now, what you need to know is deep down, that is not Neon over in the universe.”

I then said to him, “Not him? It kind of feels like him though, just really hyper and wants to kill us all.”

The Universe then said to me, “That’s not true though. I can feel it isn’t him back there. I don’t know who Neon really is underneath, but that’s not him.”

I then asked him, “So he’s being controlled then by some entity? Was that the real him killed and replaced with some sort of copy?”

The Universe then looked out the fields of flowers and said to me, “No. I don’t know. I just know deep within him and his vessel, it’s not the real him.”

I then asked him, “Then what do you want me to do about it then? Why am I even here?”

The Universe then looked at me and said with sad eyes, “You’re here so I can at least talk to you; to send a message.”

He then got on one of his knees and got closer to my eye level as he laid his left hand on my right pony shoulder. It felt a bit weird and it tingled a bit.

He said to me, “You’ll have a role to play to fix Neon… one way or another. Either in life or in death. Neon is a demon now…or at least like one. He has a tendency to speak what he hides within himself, and you must help him confront that all the way through. And if you can’t… well you can help save his soul.”

I asked him, “Does Neon even have a soul?”

He then said to me as he looked deep into my eyes, “Yes.”

I then asked him, “But why me though? Why can’t I just run away? I just want to leave that universe and get out. I can just find another MLP universe and go over there and start anew and…”

The Universe cut me off, “No. You must stay there till the time is right and the job is done. If you don’t, this could potentially spread.”

I asked him, “What do you mean by that?”

The Universe said, “Before he took control, I was able to prevent the other possibilities of Neon exploding happening in other universes. Yours is the only one that Neon did explode in. If he explodes in the others… it can lead to massive, unfathomable consequences. Not just for the universes related to yours, but almost every one that exists. This is a little bit more than one possibility over the other. This is Neon taking control of everything and even reality itself.”

I asked him, “So what? You send me back in and I try to talk him out of it or something and then we all live happily ever after?”

The Universe said to me, “It doesn’t work like that. You’ll have to be patient and just wait. When the time is right, and you’ll know it one way or another, you’ll find a way to cure him. Even if it means you have to end him.”

I then asked him while looking a bit suspicious, “So I’ll have to kill him?”

He said to me, “Not necessarily. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that. You’ll have many moments to redeem him. But if all else fails, there is always one secret weapon that is sure to beat him.”

I asked him, “What is that?”

He said to me, “Your own mind Knight.”

And then he took his hand off of me and got up and looked down on me again. And then the door that I went through opened up and it lead back to where I left off back at the studio in Equestria. I turned around and stared into the timeless state that the guys were in.

The Universe said to me, “Now go. You and your friends still have to play your and their parts.”

Before I left as I had no choice but to go, I turned around and looked into his yes and asked him, “One last thing? Is that the real Neon… over there looking at the fields?”

The Universe looked over to the other Neon and then back to me.

He then said, “Maybe… perhaps. Or maybe it’s something else.”

I then said to him, “Ok then. Will I see you again?”

The Universe looked over to the fields of flower and said to me, “That I am unsure of. I wish I can say, but only time will tell if we ever do cross paths again. But I wish the best of luck to you Knight. And may you play your part right, and then maybe things can become what they used to be… a home.”

I then said to him one last time, “Alright then…”

I then turned around and started walking through the door way, but before I did, I told him while walking, “See you later… I hope.”

And then I walked back into the room as the door closed behind me from the endless white void. Time was still frozen for the moment as I just stood there and looked into the Neon’s demon form and thinking what the universe guy had to say to me.

I wasn’t near my original place though, near the guys. I was a bit far to the left. And then without warning, time resumed from where it had left off. From there, Neon was resuming his role of trying to attack the guys.

But then the Left skeleton yelled out to him as he was hearing what Lord Bacniqu had to say to him in a soft whisper tone, “You are disqualified Neon!”

Neon then stopped in his tracks and then had wide eyes as he then said in his demon voice, “What?”

He then quickly turned back into his original form as a pony and kept his smile though as he then asked the left skeleton, “Disqualified?”

the left skeleton said, “Yes, the Lord Bacniqu has disqualified you from the challenge. He said you have overshadowed his greatness and that you embarrassed him in front of millions on live TV so now you’re disqualified.”

Neon then said while gritting his teeth, “Really?”

The left skeleton then said, “Yeah. You can keep your soul and whatever… you’re just disqualified and stuff. You a lose… so go home and stuff.”

Neon then said, “Oh… ok…”

He then turned around and started to walk out of the studio.

The guys all looked at each other as Forrest then said, “I hope he isn’t mad at us.”

Arrell then looked over at me and noticed that I wasn’t right next to them and he then asked, “Hey, why are you over there? I thought you were over here.”

I then said to them in an awkward way, “Yeah uhh… I just really wanted to move away from you guys because uhhhh… you stink.”

Arrell then said, “Oh…. Ok then… that’s kind of rude but ok then.”

I then said to him, “Yeah well… put on some deodorant next time… or something.”

I then started to walk away. They all looked confused amongst each other, but then Mac said, “Well you do stink like the pigs I used to raise.”

Arrell then looked a little bit annoyed by Mac as he then said, “Sure… thanks… You know we haven’t been able to take a bath since Neon exploded right?”

Mac then said with a surprised look, “We haven’t? Then the hell have I been bathing in then?”

Forrest then said disappointingly, “That’s children’s blood Mac… children’s blood…”

Mac then said with a surprised smile, “Oh… well no wonder why I look so young.”

Arrell then said while squinting towards Mac, “I’m disturbed of you now.”

Jack then said, “I’m just surprised he hasn’t noticed till now.”

BACK AT THE PARTY STORE…

Back at the party store, Neon was there, smiling and not doing anything behind the counter. He wasn’t moving. And we all had made it back too by this point.

He asked himself through his teeth, “How… how could I have been disqualified? How could this have happened?”

We all gave each other looks of worry and then decided to chime in. I then said to Neon, “No Neon, it wasn’t your fault. It’s our fault. And as your…. Friends… we apologize to you.”

Forrest then said, “Yeah, clearly it’s because we kept calling you boss, when we really we should have valued our friendship and called each other who we really are together… friends.”

Forrest had set it in an honest way as he said while smiling.

However Jack looked towards him with an annoyed look as he said to him, “Fucking faggot.”

Neon then said while taking Forrest’s words to heart, “Do you really mean it guys?”

Arrell then said, nervously, “Yeah… yeah we kind of do Neon.”

Mac then said, “Well it’s also because you’ve kind of kidnapped and forced us to like ya and stuff,”

The four of us then said in an annoyed tone towards him, “Mac!”

Mac then said with a smile, “Just sayin’ is all!”

Neon then said with a now relaxed smile, “Wow… you guys are right. We are friends together, and no matter, we’re sticking together… forever…”

We all then agreed in unison nervously while having shifty eyes and looking the other way from Neon. And then Neon magically got a letter that popped up right in front of him that appeared in a sudden flame.

Neon then quickly opened it, read it, and said to us, “Great news friends! Lord Bacniqu said that while I was disqualified from the challenge. I was invited to the Blood Ritual to the Death Challenge. I’m going to fight Lord Bacniqu in a struggle for power! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!”

And that was the end of it. We just went about our day and I thought about what the universe guy said to me. Not sure what he meant by his words and what I was supposed to do… but I guess I’ll be finding out one way or another. Until next time… see ya strangers...

Author's Note

When there will be more you ask? I don't know...