My Little Pony: Alternate Universal Magic

Episode 2: The Best of the Neon: Part 2:

Continuing from where we left off at, but first a quick recap. Forrest was out and about on a trail in what used to be Stalia’s park, and then he found an unborn fetus that was somehow still alive.

He then came back, scared, as I then calmed him down. And then Neon busted down through with a corpse that I’m assuming he had just found from somewhere, possibly in the dumpster, and forced Forrest to a competition to whoever can be the worst at something… or some shit like that.

First it was cans, and Forrest had his can filled with nothing but baby spiders. And then the next challenge was painting the wall with children’s blood… and then he puked… let’s continue.

And yup, the challenges were not over yet. Neon had more in store for Forrest, and Forrest just wanted to be done with it. He just wanted to just go to bed or kill himself. In fact it felt like he was ready to let Neon take him, but of course Arrell talked him into trying to keep moving forward, as we can’t let Neon beat us. And in a way he had a point.

We can’t let Neon have his satisfaction. If we’re going to die, we’re going to die like Arabs and go out with a bang instead of being a frenchie cheese eater and go out like a whimp. So Forrest was encouraged to move on and Neon had all of us go back outside. With that part I’m annoyed with since it was so annoying to have to go back and forth, in and out, just stay in one place, am I right? Or am I right?

No, well fuck you then, this is my journal, not yours. Well, I think it used to belong to someone else, I think I see bits of blood here and there, but whatever. Moving on now…

So we were back outside mentioned from before. This time we were out in the park were Forrest was at earlier. Almost around the same spot from where he spotted the unborn fetus that was still alive, yet it couldn’t be found at. And once again, we kept our distances from Neon and Forrest.

And with that being said, Forrest looked at Neon with a bit of a frown and asked him, “What are we doing out here?”

Neon then said to him, while sort of staring out into empty space, “That’s easy! Sunburst said that it wanted to challenge you to an emotional state challenge. All you have to do is not show any emotions at all.”

And when Neon had said that, I was then promptly reminded of TK and how he was emotionless, well, aside from anger at times that is. But still, it only reminded me of how there was no hope for any of us by that point.

And with that being said, Forrest then said to him, “But, I’d lose since I do show emotion. I care about a lot of things.”

Neon just said to him, “Well good luck to you then Forrest, you’re going to need it! Sunburst here is a champ at not showing any emption at all! Isn’t that right Sunburst!?”

Sunburst the Corpse just stood there, with his head hanging down a little bit, moaning and groaning like usual and looking like he wanted to die and be free from the pain of Neon. But Neon just smiled back as the silence took over.

And after a few seconds of silence had passed as well as staring at Sunburst the Corpse, Neon looked back at us and told us, “Alright, now start heckling Forrest to challenge his emotions guys!”

And so we did what we were told since we didn’t want to die. Sure, usually most would die with dignity and die than to serve on their knees, but if we did die by the hands of Neon… or hooves… whatever, we would probably not go to heaven or anything and go to Neon hell or something.

So out of fear and just in general wanted to do this, we walked up individually towards Forrest and heckled him. As for Forrest, he looked worried and sad as usual in this broken world.

First up was me, as I walked up to him, no emotions at all and said to him, “Your fire stuff sucks. Get a better act you scuffed Rainbow Dash.”

Forrest then gave a little smile towards me as he then said, “Well that’s not bad, I’m honored to be a scuffed Rainbow Dash.”

And then I walked away.

Next up was Jack as he just walked up to him and said to him, “You’re a faggot.”

Forrest then just went back to a neutral look for this world, which was a little bit sad, but whatever, I guess it didn’t count, as he then said, “But you call me that every other day. In fact it gets redundant.”

Jack had said that with a mellowed outlook as I had, “Well you’re still are one.”

He had said that last bit with a bit of a squint in his eyes and an angered look on his face as he was walking away from him.

Then it was Mac who then had an ok look on his face as he then said, as he put his left fore arm around Forrest a bit “Forrest, I don’t mean to say this to you, but you don’t eat enough of my apples. The reason why you’re so soft is because you eat that Ponyville crap. Now what I suggest is stop being promoting that government crap and tries some of my home grown shit.”

Forrest then said to him, “But you don’t have a farm anymore. All the trees are dead.”

Mac then looked a bit surprised as he then said, “I don’t!? Then what hell was I doing this whole time when I was at home!?”

Mac had looked a bit pissed off as he had removed his left fore arm from Forest and shook it in the air instead.

I then said to Mac, “You just get drunk and say how much you miss Applejack because you don’t have anyone to be jealous of anymore.”

Mac then told me, “I did!? Those damn glow in the dark zebras are out there somewhere I tell ya, messing with my fucking mind! Even in the Apocalypse!”

And then Mac walked back to us, still being an idiot. And last up was Arrell who then had a bit of a more friendly look to him, and that made Forrest smile and appear to have a little bit of hope in him when he came near.

And once Arrell was near him, Arrell told him, “Forrest?”

Forrest then responded, with both still having smiles on their faces, “Yeah?”

Arrell then said, “You suck sometimes. And frankly you should be ashamed of yourself. No go neck yourself.”

And then Arrell walked away, and Forrest’s smile disappeared as he then said, “Oh…”

But none of that forced Forrest to show that much emotion.

And in a way, Neon was up, as Neon then said to Forrest, “Hey Forrest!”

Forrest then looked over at Neon’s direction as he was curious as to what he had wanted next from him.

In which case Neon then asked Forrest, “Guess what?”

And then a few seconds of silence had passed as Forrest didn’t ask ‘what’ this time. Instead Neon, seemingly from out of nowhere, grabbed the unborn fetus from before that was still alive with the help of Sunburst the Corpse, and put it front of him for Forrest to see. And with that being said, the unborn fetus was moving slightly and started to talk in a little baby voice.

The unborn fetus said to anyone that could hear it, “Ma ma… da… da…”

And then Neon with a smile, a bit crossed eyed, put a hammer from somewhere, in Sunburst’s right hoof, and started smashing the unborn fetus into a pancake as the blood splattered onto Sunburst the Corpse and Neon’s faces.

And as Neon was forcing Sunburst the Corpse to repeatedly smash the unborn fetus as hard as he could with the hammer, Forrest just went back to a disgusted look on his face, as he showed a lot of emotions now, but just stood there frozen, disgusted, wanting to cry for the poor unborn soul.

And after what felt like twenty one seconds of Neon just hammering away at the unborn fetus down to a pulp, Neon stopped and immediately yelled out, “Sunburst wins!”

And Forrest then asked Neon as he started to well up in his eyes, “How… How could you do such a thing Neon? It was a poor, defenseless little thing and you killed it?”

Neon then said, “It wasn’t me that did it, it was Sunburst! Yaaaaay for Sunburst!”

Forrest started to shed some tears, and Neon saw this which then made Neon tell him, “Awww… don’t cry Forrest cause you lost. It’s just a game after all. Now it’s time for one more challenge, a race! Loser takes all! You guys go on ahead now; Sunburst needs my help to practice for the big race! Meet me near the Party Store’s doors at sunset… or else!”

And then Neon walked off with Sunburst the Corpse, and far away from us. Perhaps far enough to where his ears couldn’t hear us talk. And once we did, we all walked up to Forrest as Forrest started to quietly weep… like a guitar or something.

And once we got close enough, we stopped and I asked Forrest, “You ok?”

Forrest then said, while still looking at the now dead for sure unborn fetus, “No! I can’t take it anymore! I just can’t do this anymore you guys!”

He then turned his eyes to us as he sat down on his pony ass and his eyes filled with nothing but tears and sorrow, “We’ve got to get out of this place!”

Arrell, feeling a bit sorry for him, “Forrest, come on there buddy, you know we tried. You know we can’t do that. And besides, I have an image to keep up with Neon, so don’t even.”

I then said to Forrest, “Look Forrest, I know you want to escape, I do too, unlike Arrell here. He has an image problem.”

Arrell then annoyingly looked at me as he said, “I do not!”

I then said to him, “You’re self centered sometimes Arrell, face it, you’re a prick sometimes.”

Arrell then said, with a bit of an angered look on his face, “Fuck you.”

I then said to him, “Yeah whatever.”

I then went back to talking to Forrest, “Look, you just have to face facts here just like the rest of us. We’re fucked. We’re fucked if we do this. We’re fucked if we do that. There’s nothing we can do Forrest. Sometimes in life, you’re just fucked. And there’s no ifs, ors or buts about it. So you can either sit there and eat it or you can join the rest of society and have some false hope that one day things will get better even though we all know it in our hearts that it won’t.”

Forrest then said, as he got back up on all fours, “But… but I’m a Pegasus aren’t I?”

I then said to him, “Ya.”

He then said to us, “And I’m Forrest Fire, where I can go so fast that I can create a Sonic Fireboom while setting things on fire right?”

I then told him, “From what I can recall… yeah…”

Forrest then started to go back to a mellowed out look on his face as he then said, “So, can’t I just go fast during the race and create a Sonic Fireboom and maybe even escape here. I mean surely he can’t…”

I then cut Forrest off and told him, “You can either die trying or live and make sure your soul is still alive. But by all means, fuck yourself over; we… kind of don’t care.”

Forrest then said, “You don’t?”

I then said, “Well don’t take it too harshly, I’m just saying we are all dead on the inside now, and you are our buddy so we do kind of care. But at the same time, hey, you want to fuck yourself, go fuck yourself then. See you at sunset buddy…”

And then we all walked away from Forrest, leaving him to fend for himself. He didn’t look to have been phased from our comments at all, so that was good, but he did just stand there, thinking about what I had said I’m sure.

LATER AT SUNSET OUTSIDE THE PARTY STORE…

And so we skip forward to the race, where we were just outside the Party Store and was waiting for the race to begin. Forrest was at the made up starting line that was made out of the left over children blood on the ground, and Neon had let Sunburst the Corpse go and be on his own, just like a bird letting the baby bird leave the nest… kind off…

Anyways, there was no sundown of course, but the green skies were starting to become a bit darker so that’s your indication that was sundown in this new world… the new normal I guess you could say.

And as Forrest had his legs in the ready running position, even though he would just use his wings, but whatever, Neon just stood there behind Sunburst, but at a distance and asked Forrest, “You ready Forrest!?”

Forrest then said, “Yeah… sure am… he he…”

Forrest had looked at Neon when he had said that with a forced smile and a nervous laugh.

And Neon started to squint at Forrest after he had said that, and went, “Hmmmmmm…” as if he was suspecting something of Forrest, while still attaining the smile of his.

But Neon’s eyes went back to normal size and he then said, “Alright then! The first to make a full lap around the entire town of Stalia Loses… Wins…Dies… GO!!!”

And then Forrest was off, at resounding speeds as usual and left a bit of trail of fire in his wake. As for Sunburst the Corpse, he was walking very, very slowly like an old grandpa that could climb up the stairs and fell down three times, and then blames it on the wind.

All while continuing the moan and groan in pain as he said, “Kill me please…”

But none of us ever did.

Anyways, as for Forrest he was so far away from us Neon couldn’t even see him anymore, and eventually went past the town and into the Everfree Forest. And even though he knew he was far away from Neon, he didn’t want to stop. He wanted to keep going. From the look on his face, he didn’t want to stop at the remains of Ponyville, or even the ruins of Cantorlot, not even to the now filled with dead fishes and whales beaches or any of the other edges of Equestria. He didn’t even want to try to go to one of the other countries and their remains.

No, he wanted to go far, far from this place, even if it meant to space, even if it meant the sun or the moon or a different planet. Yet even Forrest knew that no matter what corner of the universe that he was in, Neon would always be there, to find him, and to forever be his friend and to take him back, in a bad and creepy way of course. But Forrest wanted to believe that he could escape from this nightmarish world, so he kept going and going, faster and faster as he pushed his wings and his heart, oh god it was all so very fast and right before you knew it… boom, he made a Sonic Fireboom with him breaking the sound barrier and leaving an explosion behind his wake.

But that wasn’t good enough as he kept pushing and pushing until he couldn’t see what was right in front of him anymore. Yet that wasn’t good enough as he started to tear up a bit, not from the wind, but from the world that he was now living in.

And at that moment, he pushed himself even faster than he had ever done before… well… kind of… as he then blacked out. And here’s the tricky part that I was still able to capture but… it gets kind of weird, although what I am about to talk about, I have seen this before. At least from when we were telling each other’s back stories in a weird way and to what used to be the Three Little Fuckers.

You see, Forrest was in a limbo like state, a weird place where it’s just darkness, a Dark zone you could say, as Forrest had been here before as a filly on accident one time, but his memory was wiped. It’s a long story, and longer story how I know this, trust me if things were different, I’m sure I would be writing a different journal filled with an evil talking skeleton, a buffed up Discord, and talking computer OS’s I’m sure. But it’s not that kind of a world.

Anyways, Forrest was floating, in a dark zone kind of place, if you want to describe it like that, in a sea of darkness. Yet he could see himself as he opened up his eyes and awakened, not to the darkness, but to the shining of balls of light in front of him. And the balls of light moved towards him, and to be quick about this, these are called The Fates, or sometimes The Travellers, but whatever.

And there were many of them, but one that glowed a light blue got up into Forrest’s face as Forrest was floating on his backside.

And the Fate with the light blue light said, in a sort of high pitched tone, male type though, “Woah there fella, didn’t expect to see you again here.”

Forest then asked him, while being a bit dazed and confused, “Excuse me? Do I know you? Where am I? And what am I doing here?”

The Fate with the light blue light then exclaimed to him, “Woah, take it easy with the questions there fella. There are something’s that you weren’t meant to know, at least not right away that is. Just know that you were once here too and…”

And then a light pink light quickly rolled up next to the light blue light and told him, this time in a female high pitched voice, “No, that was another one.”

The light blue fate then looked to the light pink fate and asked it, “Woah, what are you saying, this is the same one, isn’t it?”

The light pink one then said, “No, that was a different one from a different universe, remember?”

The light blue light then said, “I don’t follow.”

The light pink one then said, “Remember, the Elements of Protection in that one universe that battled Punished God Discord, the one that tried to take the Universal Magic Theory and cause an imbalance among the rest of the universes?”

The light blue one then said, “That was the one? I could have sworn this was the one.”

The light pink one then said, “I just told you this is the wrong one. Just becareful, you can’t cause an imbalance here or else everything is going to be screwed, even The Inca is going to get pissed off at us.”

The light blue one then said, “Ok ok ok then. Now let me see here, which one is this one’s fate. Hmmm…”

As the light blue one was seeing, somehow… the destiny of Forrest’s fate, Forrest was just floating there, almost as if he was chilling along, watching the two talk.

And eventually the light blue one then spoke up and said, “Ah, I see here. You’re this version of Forrest then. Ok so listen up here, we’re going to send you back.”

Forrest then said, still dazed and confused in his tone of voice, “What? No… no no no… I don’t want to go back there.”

The light blue one then said to him, “Now don’t start crying, just listen to what I have to say.”

It then made a sound of clearing its throat and said to Forrest, “Now your fate is a troubled one. And trust me, an alternate one of your world would wish to be in your position right now as the alternates have it way worse. Just know this: There has been a corruption in your universe. A rogue thing has happened, and there is nothing that we can do to fix it. BUT, us fates have it in store for you that you and your other friends will be able to fix the thing that we couldn’t fix. So just hang in there and know that things will be good for you in the end. Ok? Ok… now let’s send this little fucker back to his universe and then we can grab some coffee, I ain’t buying though…”

And then in a bright flash of light, Forrest was then returned back to our world, his universe, and he was then falling lifelessly from the skies, high above the Everfree Forest. Yet he was unconscious as well at the same time, but as he was falling from the heavens, with his back facing to the ground, he finally was able to wake up and had his eyes wide open as he then saw something he had hoped to not see ever again… Neon.

Neon was on top of him, smiling, waiting for him to wake up, and as soon as he saw him, he said, “Hi, you missed me!?”

And then Neon punched him real good and knocked him out… all while in the air. And Forrest had blacked out again.

BACK AT THE PARTY STORE….

Forrest eventually came too as he eventually opened his eyes. And once he did, he was back at the party store, but none of us were around him, worrying about him. We were just chilling, trying to do our thing while Neon was behind the counter, trying to fix something.

And as he awoken Forrest, still a bit dazed and confused, asked, “Where am I? Was I just dreaming the whole…”

I then quickly cut Forrest, not looking at him and instead just lying down on my back on the floor, looking at the ceiling, just waiting for the time to pass, “Nope, you’re still here. We told ya…”

Forrest then gave a little whimper as he then looked down in the dumps and said, “Oooohhhh…”

But Neon then went over to him with his little chef’s hat on as he then said with a smile, “Cheer up Forrest, it turns out that you were the winner of the competition!”

Forrest then said, unchanged with his expression, “I was?”

Neon, with a smile and all, said to Forrest, “Yup! Turns out Sunburst was a fraud and rigged the whole thing to begin with as he got some ponies from Japony to help him rig the race! And it was found out that he tried to overthrow me and attempt a coup. But don’t worry, it’s all fixed now! I fortified it! And to celebrate, I cooked you a special treat! Unborn Fetus Fila!”

And then out of nowhere, Neon pulled out a silver platter of the same unborn fetus from before, but now steamed and cooked well done. And in turn, Forrest just vomited all over the cooked unborn fetus and passed out.

And from there, I then said to him, “Embrace the struggle Forrest. Embrace the struggle.”

And that was about for that day. We’ll see how the next few days pan out… but this was fun though… bye for now I guess…