Humanity at it's Craziest

The girls awake in the morning at around about 7am to the sound of a rather loud coughing fit. As they open their groggy eyes from a rather restless sleep, they look around to see that Neon is sitting at the base of the stairs, coughing as though he was about to die.

Twilight was the first to ask "What's going on?" Which was only met with more horrible coughing from Neon.

"He looks like he's choking!" Rainbow said in a slight panic, completely forgetting about what happened last night and letting instinct take over. "What do we do? What do we do!"

"Calm down Rainbow!" Twilight said, trying to think about what to do. "We need to clear his throat." But as Twilight tried to move she realized that she was still stuck from whatever Neon did the previous night. Finally realizing the helplessness of the situation, she did the only thing she could. Nothing.

The girls all looked on in fear, as they could not do anything to help the pony in need. After a few more seconds it started to grow worse and he started to look like his body was giving out due to lack of air. His face was turning slightly blue, even through his fur and he was struggling to stay upright at that point, until he finally collapsed...

All the girls gasped in horror at what they had just witnessed and watched as Neon laid unmoving on the library floor. Fluttershy had even begun to cry. All the girls were feeling sorrowful, knowing that they could do nothing to help and had to stand by as they watched another pony di-

Then all of a sudden Neon hopped up and started to bounce around the library with a small smile on his face looking completely fine. After Neon completed his 5th lap of the library, he slowed to a stop infront of the girls and looked at them with a cheerful smile on his face, which was returned slightly with still shocked looks of confusion.

"Hello my little ponies!" Neon said joyfully. "How was your sleep?"

The first to answer was Rainbow. "What." she stated simply, while still looking shocked at Neon's sudden recovery.

"Well that's good, because I have got a lot planed for today." He said with a grin as he looked over all the girls.

"Um, Neon. What happened earlier?" Twilight asked, still very confused about what just happened.

"I was just coughing." He said with his still joyful face.

"Just coughing? You looked like you died!"

"And?"

"How are you still alive?" Twilight blurted out, staring intently at Neon for an answer.

"Well I eat a good supply of food daily and get my required exercise and rest." He said, kinda like how Pinkie would when she is dodging questions.

"No, I mean.... How did you just get up like it was nothing after passing out on the floor?" Twilight asked, slightly confused about why he had answered like that.

"Meh, it happens a lot." Neon said while shrugging.

All the girls stared at him.

After about a minute of silence Rainbow spoke up "Well now that that's over... can I move again?" To which all the girls agreed with a nod of their heads.

"Sure. Just stay still and don't move.... good job! I might put a laugh in here. But anyway, racs noen. Can't believe none of you tried that that." Neon said, after which the girls all got large head aches (the kind one would only expect after a night of heavy drinking) which fortunately subsided rather quickly. After the girls regained their senses, they managed to stand up and stretch out their stiff bodies', giving off cracks and groans after lying still for so long.

"So.... what do you mean by 'I've got a lot planned for today'?" Rainbow asked.

"Well, I was thinking about some stuff and thought 'Hey, you know what would be fun? Torturing some ponies of course!' So that's what I'm going to do!" Neon paused, while smiling like a maniac as the girls looked at him with a mixture of disgust and horror. "I think I will start with Rainbow dash... she just looks like the weakest out of all of you."

"Wait, what!" Rainbow said in shock, not only at what he said he was going to do, but also that she was the weakest. "I AM NOT WEAK!"

"Alright, I will give you a chance." Neon said still holding a very large grin. "If you can beat me in one on one combat, I won't torture anypony."

All the girls huddled together to discuss what they were going to do so that Neon couldn't hear. Most were still shocked at what they had just heard but still needed to be careful with their new 'guest', as they did not know what he was fully capable of.

"I think I can take him!" Rainbow said boastfully.

"I wouldn't be to sure Rainbow, you saw what he did last night and he could have any amount of tricks up his sleeve." Twilight pointed out, still worried about what he could do. She pondered for a minute while the conversation continued.

"Ah say we all just rush em." Applejack said. "There is no way he could take us all."

"I'm afraid we can't take that chance Applejack. He might be able to do more than we think and we don't want to risk making him angry." Said Rarity, who was still quite shell-shocked about his statement.

"I think Rainbow should just go for it." Neon said, only seeming to surprise Fluttershy as the rest of the girls didn't notice as they were too deep in thought.

"Um... girls, Neon's right there." Fluttershy muttered so quietly that nopony noticed what she had said.

"But what if he has some unknown power that he could cheat with." Twilight argued, still not noticing who else was in the conversation. "I mean, he can literally stop us moving with ONE WORD! I don't want to know what else he is capable of..."

"Na, I don't think he would cheat. He seems like a nice and handsome guy. Besides, I can take him so why can't Rainbow?" Neon said, finally allowing Twilight to recognize who it was.

"So are you saying you won't cheat?" Twilight asked curiously, but still scared at how he had joined the conversation without anypony noticing (except Fluttershy of course).

"Yeah, I won't cheat. It'll be a fair fight." Neon reassured. "So are we doing this Rainbow?" Neon asked with a challenging grin.

"Fine." Rainbow said with a huff, still unsure if it was a good idea. "So, how are we going to do this?"

"Simple. We take opposite sides of the library and on the count of three we fight to the knock-out. If you win, you girls get to do what ever you want with me while I'm unconscious, I know you won't do anything bad, I won't torture anypony, and I'll tell you girls anything you want to know. But if I win, then I get to do what I want. The only rules are no magic-aid, no interfering with the fight, Twilight and friends, and no leaving the library."

Rainbow nodded her head, still slightly worried about what would happen if she lost, but gained confidence from her friends that are going to be backing her up on the sidelines.

After the huddle broke all the girls trotted over to the couch and took a seat to stay out of the way of the fight, while Rainbow and Neon got ready at opposite sides of the room. Twilight cast a spell that cleared the area so that they wouldn't trip over anything and the library wouldn't get damaged, while Rainbow prepared to fight while throwing punches in the air, where as Neon just sat on the other side of the room and watched with a cheery grin on his face.

Pinkie had managed to pull popcorn and a foam hand with 'Rainbow Dash #1' out of thin air, Fluttershy was utterly terrified at the whole thing and was hiding behind as much of her mane as possible, Rarity was scanning over Neon with frightened eyes, still unsure if this was the right choice of action, Applejack was trying to look confident of her friends' ability's but still showed how nervous she was and Twilight was just shocked in general about everything that had happened over the past few hours and couldn't even think straight.

Twilight readied to count down from three to start the fight.

"Three..." Rainbow licked her lips.

"Two..." Neon lazily scanned the room.

"One..." Pinkie bounced in her seat.

"GO!"

Fwoosh CRACK

.....

All the girls looked stunned at what had happened...

(Annoyingly adding suspense to the story for extra drama...)

As soon as Twilight said 'go', Rainbow had instantly launched straight at Neon and hit him directly in the chest with the force of a living train. Neon had gone sailing backwards while Rainbow had come to a halt shortly after she had hit him. Neon connected with a bookcase along the wall of the library, but due to Twilight's spell, it still held all the books, and then fell to the floor. All the girls stunned expressions soon turned to worried ones, as they just realized how hard he would have been hit.

But, as Twilight was about to go check if Neon was still 'alive' he started to get up.... laughing?

"Good hit Rainbow," Neon congratulated, "I almost felt that one. No small feat, I assure you."

Now was a time for them all to looked stunned again. 'He just took a hit from Rainbow that could crumble rocks.... HOW IS HE STILL STANDING?!' Twilight thought.

"Hey Twilight, can I ask a favour?" Neon suddenly asked, catching Twilight off guard. "Can you just scan my body and check my injury's quickly?"

Twilight, while still confused by his request, let her curiosity get the better of her and decided to check. As she was casting the spell the whole room went silent waiting for results.

Rainbow was still shocked about the fact that he brushed it of like nothing. 'I hit him so hard I almost broke a bone, so how is he still standing?' Rainbow asked herself.

When Twilight exited the spell she had a look of complete shock on her face. She was so shocked that it looked like she had just witnessed murder.

"H-he has 3 broken ribs, slight internal bleeding and a punctured lung." She said to everyone who soon gained the same expression. "H-how are you even standing.... you should be crying in pain right now, completely unable to move." She said to herself more that anypony else but still loud enough for everypony to hear her comment.

"Wow! Now that was one hell of a slam Rainbow!" Neon said with way too much glee. "3 ribs AND a punctured lung! Not even a car could do that to me. I'm impressed."

Everypony just stared at him with even more shock than before because of his comment. This stallion was either crazy or just very, very good at hiding pain. Probably both.

"Well now that we know my injuries, we can continue." Neon said, putting on a proper fighting stance for the first time.

Rainbow, while still shocked about how he could just stand ready to fight with broken ribs, got into stance on the other side of the room again, ready to take him down at any cost.

Neon suddenly jumped at Rainbow, who had barely enough time to dodge out of the way. As soon as Neon landed he turned to look at Rainbow with that manic of a grin plastered on his face, looking like he was about to kill her. Before Rainbow had fully recovered from her dodge, Neon had charged again, but this time he hit his mark and tackled Rainbow to the ground. He quickly pinned her down with his hooves so that she was unable to move anything, except for her wings and her head. Neon leaned in towards her with the scariest look she had ever seen, and her life started to flash before her eyes.

Then they all heard a load 'pop' coming from outside.

Princess Celestia opened the front door and walked in. "Hello? Twilight are you here...." She then noticed what was happening in the room and gained a look of pure hatred.

"Ow, hey Celli." Neon said with a natural smile. "How are you? Also how is Luna recovering from my little entrance?"

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" She bellowed in the Royal canterlot voice.

"Hmm, I was just fighting Rainbow to the knock-out so that if she won I wouldn't torture her." Neon stated matter-of-factly. "She actually is pretty good considering that one hit gave me 3 broken ribs and a collapsed lung."

Now Celestia was really angry, not just at the fact that he was in a fight with her subjects but also because it started when he threatened to torture them.

She didn't even give a warning when she started to channel a spell and point her horn at Neon. "Hey, I said no magic." Neon pouted.

Celestia let out a magical beam straight at Neon, blinding everypony in the room. Once they all heard the beam connect they opened their eyes to see what had happened.

It turns out that Neon had not gotten hit by the spell and the spell hit the wall behind where he used to be, but the wall was no longer there. The spell had completely vaporized the wall where he had been, making all the girls cringe at the though of it actually hitting somepony.

"Wow. You actually tried to kill me.... again." Neon said from his perch on top of the stairs. "And you also attacked a tired enemy. To shame princess, to shame."

By the time he had finished speaking, another spell was charged in the princess' horn, ready to fire. This time, the spell actually hit Neon but with less effect that the last spell, because this spell was just a binding spell rather than a kill-everything-in-the-way spell.

"Finally going for the peaceful solution princess. That's a first."

Celestia's rage only spiked more at that comment. "I am going to throw you in a dungeon for the rest of your life, you foul creature."

"Well sorry for being a buzzkill here, but I'm going to have to decline because I'm really tired right now from all the time travelling I have done in the past 60 hours and I don't really like dungeons." Neon said.

Celestia, while a little stunned by the time travelling comment, replied. "And how exactly are you going to do that, beast? I have you stuck in a royal bind that is completely unbreakable."

"Well... I think I might just do this." Neon said as he disappeared in front of their very eyes, leaving no trace of anything behind.

Celestia was at a complete loss of words at what had just happened.

Twilight was the first to speak up from the stunned ponies. "We need to find him, he might cause harm to other ponies if we don't."

Celestia, while still absolutely stunned at what had happened, agreed with a nod and then started using a tracking spell that was locked onto Neon's location. "Let us go my little ponies, there is no telling of what he will do if we don't capture him."