Humanity at it's Craziest

"Hello Dashie." The 'newer' Neon said.

"Bu... Hu... WHAT?"

"Were you always like this? I swear that you weren't this bad." Neon said while scratching his chin. "Never mind. So N, my protection has worn out and its time for you to gain some."

"Wait, protection?" Dash asked, still absolutely confused.

"Yep. Look at it this way, I come from his future because I am future him." Future Neon (I'll call him F from now on) said, pointing at Neon.

"And he has come back in time to save my life." Neon said, still out of breath.

"Which means that if he is to die before he can come back and save himself the universe collapses." F said with a huge grin.

"That basically means that your little princess can't do anything to him until he does what I'm doing. Which is a shame because I was hoping to prank Ol Celli some more."

Rainbow just stood their confused as tartarus about what was happening, "Well why didn't you come back earlier? It's been hours since he was injured!"

"Well...I kinda need to talk to you. You see, I know why you have been going through so much emotion and what not."

"WHAT! How do you know what I've been going through?"

"I'm future him remember, and future you told me about it. Anyway, reason its happening is because he kinda got soul linked to you when he crossed over to this universe. It basically means that you guys are brother and sister in essence. Literally." F said, going through random hoof movements for no particular reason what so ever.

"So... we are related... in essence?"

"Well, yes. Basically you are, but that also means that you have strong emotions towards each other because he is basically sharing your soul. You also share some emotions, so stop feeling sad, it's only making him worse. It's the only way he was able to get into this universe and he didn't know all this until just now so don't pester him."

"Um...F, help?" Neon asked.

"Oh, right." F said while moving over to Neon. "Now, all I want you to do is list where you feel pain."

"Everywhere." Neon dead-panned. "You want to be more specific?"

"Ok, how about you tell me what pain is new since you got here."

"Shouldn't you know F? Just do your job." Neon said, getting into a position that F would be able to do his work easier.

F stopped looking over at Neon and looked back towards Rainbow, who was sitting in one of her chairs watching intensely on what was happening. "You might want to look away, I need the privacy." After he finished saying that, and she continued to look, he sighed and walked into the other room, much to Rainbow's confusion. She heard some rustling but waited a little while before finally deciding to check out what was happening in the other room. She got up of the cloud chair and walked past Neon, who still hadn't moved from his spot on the couch, and watched as Rainbow made her way towards the other room. He shook his head as if signalling not to enter, but she was too curious for her own good. Once she had reached to door that F had walked out, he walked back in with a jar of something red. Neon looked completely relieved that she hadn't walked in.

"What is the jar?" She asked in confusion.

"Something that will heal Neon." He said in a way that made her want to know what it was even more. "Ok N, you know how this works, but this time I got the really strong stuff."

He reached into the jar, dipped his hoof in the liquid and rubbed it over Neon near his broken ribs and collapsed lung, making sure to get it in thick. He the lifted up the jar and poured it all over Neon's body until only half of the jar's contents was left. Neon then turned over on the couch and F began to pour it on his back and wings. Once he was finished, he placed the now empty jar down on the floor and licked the hoof covered in the liquid before chanting something that Rainbow couldn't understand. The liquid on his hoof slowly turned blue as he chanted. He then placed his hoof back on Neon, and when the liquids met it all changed blue as well. F then began chanting something else and the blue liquid began to glow and ripple along Neon's skin, seeming to thicken until it all seeped into his body. Once the liquid had cleared, she was able to see him better and noticed he was now clear of all scorch marks and glowed a dim grey. Once F had moved out of the way of Neon, he jumped up and flapped his wings with a look of vigor and anger, she noticed that his eyes were now glowing brightly and his hair was waving  about, rippling like the liquid had been. The green highlights in his hair were also glowing an eerie Neon green, much like his eyes.

Neon laughed evilly.

"Well, now that he is healed, we need to talk to you Rainbow." F said, shaking his hoof slightly. "I will let N start."

"Ok. Rainbow, do you remember that fight we had?" Neon asked, to which Rainbow nodded her head. "Well, the reason I did that was to test you."

"Wait, test me? For what?"

This time F spoke up. "I needed him to test your strength so he knew how strong you are."

"And I just got to say, wow. You are not as weak as I thought you would be. You might even be half as good as I am, and that is saying something!" Neon said with joy clear in his voice.

"But why did you have to test my strength? Why would you need to know that?" Rainbow asked, still very confused.

"Because we like to teach." F said. "We don't like to keep our knowledge to ourselves, but we don't want someone just running around with that knowledge and causing the end of universes. So we have watched you and decided that you will be a perfect student. Also you are the only one with enough strength to survive, but that's another story."

"We will teach you what we know too some extent, but you have to follow some rules." Neon said.

"And what if I don't want to learn this stuff?" Rainbow challenged.

"Well, I wouldn't even exist for one." F said with a knowing grin. "I wouldn't have come back in time to talk to you about this if you didn't accept now would I?"

"Ok, fine. I do sorta want to learn." Rainbow said, defeated.

"Good. Now before we get onto rules, I need to do something quickly." Neon said, completely monotone.

"He needs a race." F said while grinning towards Rainbow with Neon.

"Hey, soul sister? Want to help?"

Rainbow matched his grin.

"Well I would stay and chat some more, but by the looks of it N has got everything under control for now. I guess I'll see ya later R. Don't forget to say hi to V for me. You will meet them later, just say F says hi." And with that, F disappeared.

"Well R, lets get going. I need to get rid of this excess energy or I might explode." Neon said, heading for a nearby window.

Neon and Rainbow arrived at a nearby hilltop some time later, while avoiding getting seen by other ponies. It was easy, since it was night and most of Ponyville was asleep.

"I'm still confused about what just happened in the last couple of hours, but I can never say no to a race." Rainbow said, looking confidently off towards the finish line; a cloud next to her house which was about 2 kilometers away.

"And that is why F suggested it." Neon said, stretching out his wings in an unusual way.

"Ready to go N?" Rainbow asked, using his new nickname.

"As ready as I'm sure that you will lose." Neon said with a grin.

"Ok, I'll give you 10 minutes then." Rainbow said matching his grin.

"And I already like you better than my actual sister." He said with a laugh.

"So you do have family!" Rainbow exclaimed. "And here I was thinking you didn't have anyone."

"Well your right, I don't have anyone." Neon said holding his grin. "I killed her myself. Wasn't so mean to me then, begging me to stop. Funny thing is that it only took 10 minutes for her to start wishing she was dead. Oh, and by the way R, You technically won that fight so I won't torture anypony. Yet."

Rainbow looked over at him, completely disgusted at what he had just said. But deep down she felt happy to hear that she was dead. 'Stupid linked soul! Stop making me feel weird!'

"Don't worry about it. Also, stop fighting the feelings. The more you fight the more they try, and by the time they break through you'll wish you had just followed them in the first place. Last time I fought against feelings I ended up covered in bodies. Don't ask."

"As horrified as I am, I think I'll just trust you from now on. By the sound of the things you've been through, you probably know what your talking about." Rainbow said as she adjusted herself to a better take off position.

"Good. Now lets got this thing going!" Neon said with vigor. "We will start when you hear a scream."

"Wait, what are you tal-" A load scream floated up from town.

Neon didn't even wait for Rainbow to regain her senses as he took off. As soon as she noticed that he had taken off she followed suit, launching into the air and ignoring the scream for the time being. She quickly caught up with Neon who wasn't actually flying very fast.

"Sup." She said as she sped pass him. She then turned around to see how he was doing. The only thing she saw was a grey, black and neon green blur pass her, leaving behind a trail of color much like the one she was but with his signature colors instead. She turned back around to see him already a good 100 meters away from her and continuing to gain speed. Rainbow wasn't going to give up though, and she went into full speed to catch up with him. She was quite surprised at how fast he was, it took everything she had to just catch up.

"Not bad R, but you could be better." Neon said, flying in tune with Rainbow. "But in the first 4 days of my training you will be about 20% faster than a bullet without doing a sonic rainboom, and they are so fast you can barely even see them." Neon the proceeded to blast forward and get to the finish line in less than a millisecond, leaving Rainbow slack jawed.

When Rainbow finally made it to the finish line, Neon was sitting in a lounging chair, sipping on the juices of a coconut through a straw with a bored expression. "Ok. HOW THE #@$% DID YOU DO THAT!"