Oh the Irony

"Uuh my head." I groan as I slowly open my eyes. As soon as I do my senses get attacked with a barrage of input. I groan once again and begin to sit up. I hear several voices murmur with concern and after a moment I hear another stranger with a fair amount of authority in his tone say, “Sir are you ok."

I begin to say, "Yeah I'm fine....." I sit there for a moment and then say, "Where the hell am I and why does my voice sound different."

The authoritative voice begins once again and states, "You sir are currently sitting the lobby of the grand central nexus, you also seem to be also next to a crater that has an active chaos rift sitting in it. That may also explain quite a few of your changes when you get about the business of checking yourself over."

I stand up and think for a minute and say, "well now that's out of the way I guess I shall be on my wa....."

The next thing I hear is that authoritative tone begin to ask if I was ok again but I did not hear him finish his sentence. For at that moment my head was assaulted by what can only be described as a legion of foreign information. I fell to the ground once more and clutched my head while screaming in pure agony.

I screamed out, “YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS DISCORD." I could feel all the knowledge that did not belong encroaching on my feeble mind, slowly twisting my sanity till it would be no more. I quickly formulated a plan which if worked correctly would either completely destroy the information or section it off in a separate area of my brain till I could find a better solution.

I managed to scrape together enough concentration to focus and cry out," contingency construct seventy, commence.”

As soon as the spell started I felt instant relief. All the extra information that was trying to push its way into my head had stopped and appeared to no longer present. I broke out in a big goofy grin and got to my feet, I turned around to look at the rift and I could see discord sitting in a TV chair with a bemused expression on his face. I opened my mouth to speak but before I could begin to gloat he said,” I am the king of chaos kid, you dun goofed." The pain came back in full force and I fell into the darkness.

I float through the darkness for what feels like an eternity, in permanent silence. I spend every conceivable moment trying to figure out where I am, and more importantly who I am. I spend my time when not thinking trying to call out into the nothing, asking if it knew who I was and where I am.

After another eternity I hear a feminine voice call out, “do you want to leave the darkness behind and join the land of the living." I just float there for a while in shock but eventually cry out, “Yes I wish to be free of this place of eternal torment." A few moments later I see a light rushing towards me, I cry out in joy for I was now free of the darkness and as the light encompassed me I felt a whole new set of sensations the primary one being by back firmly set up upon a hard surface.

I make my way off the floor and my gaze wandered around the cavernous space, I saw shelf upon shelf filled with precious books. I see a small table piled with books, one of which was open and currently floating in mid-air, surrounded by a purple aura.

“You took your sweet time Lucien, It’s not like I was waiting six months for you to piece together enough of your mind to resemble a conscious.” The mysterious floating book said.

“Wait you said my name Lucien, dues that mean you know who I am?” I exclaimed. The book sighed and marked its place and then lowered its self to the table. Now that the book had been set to the side it seemed that the voice was not the book but was in fact a small purple pony.

The pony got up and walked over to me, looked me straight in the eyes and said, “First and foremost my name is Twilight Sparkle, ex-student of Princess Celestia.” She gave me a withering glare and continued, “Unfortunately for you I do not know much about you other than a few small things like your name and that you are a powerful magic user that assisted discord in sealing me and my friends away. And after doing so you seem to have been tampered with.”

I backed up horrified at this new information, “I did what to you, oh I can’t fathom why i would have done something so terrible to anybody. I am so terribly sorry do you think you can ever forgive me.”

She looked into my eyes once again except this time it felt like she was looking straight through me and into my soul. “It appears that you are being truthful and that any evil intent that you housed was wiped away with your memories. All I wish from you is for you to help me reunite me with my friends and that you assist me with returning me to where I am from so I may have a chance to right the wrongs that discord may have caused while I was away.”

I sat there for a little while to contemplate what twilight had said. After some time made up my mind and i said, “From what you have said i have committed numerous wrongs against you and i will be more than happy to help you if you would be willing to help me.”

Twilight looked startled for a moment but after a moment she narrowed her eyes and said, “after all you have done to harm me and my world you dare ask for help you miserable, despicable creature.”

At this point she looked positively furious. I put my hands up in surrender and said, “while i do not know the extent of the harm i have caused i wish to make things right again. I shall not ask for much other than you fill me in with all the information you have of the events that have transpired, and that after all this is done i can only hope that you might be able to forgive me.

After i had said this she calmed down almost immediately and after a few moments fell down on her haunches and started crying. I ran up to her and embraced her tightly and said, “i am so very sorry about all i have done but it is time to make things right. From what you have told me so far there are a great many things that need fixing and we need to get started as soon as possible.” I then gave her one final squeeze and let her go so that she could calm down.

"After awhile twilight stopped crying. As she wiped away her tears she looked up at me with a determined expression and said, "Alright are you ready to begin." I nod to acknowledge that i was.

"Ok the before i begin the full explanation give me your hand." Twilight said. I walk over and to twilight and place my hand into her awaiting hoof. She closes her eyes and places her horn onto the back of my hand and after a moment there was a purple flash of light and when the removed her horn there was a small star tattoo on the back of my hand.

"What is this for." I ask while examining my hand with a puzzled expression. "It will be a means of communication between you and me when you wake up. It also functions as a conduit for me so i can cast the necessary spells to unlock the place me and my friends are imprisoned in. Once i have done so you must follow my instructions to the letter. Is that clear?"

"Clear as a bell, now the story." I say, as i take a seat at the table. Twilight grabs a pillow and brings it up next to me and promptly sits down. "I shall start with the place we are currently in. This place is called The Archives and from what i have gathered it it all the the information from another place called Prism Academy, compounded into book form by your old subconscious for convenience."

"Ok so that's neat and all but there exactly is this Archive place anyways." I ask. "Why this is your mind of course silly." Twilight said with a puzzled expression. "Did the spell you cast on yourself really destroy that much." She murmured under her breath.

"And what spell are you referring to exactly?" I ask, breaking her out of her little trance she seemed to have gone into.

"Oh right, sorry about that i got list in thought." she said sheepishly. "Well anyway all of this information is foreign and was forced upon you by discord. His intent was probably was for it to break your mind so there was no way for me to ever return. As you re entered this world he must have triggered the flood of information, however you managed to cast a spell that you thought would destroy the information. Unfortunately for you the chaos shard that you received for helping defeat me seemed to have critically affected your magic and instead of wiping out the new information it destroyed all of your memories, leaving your mind to process all the info without a consciousness to guide it. After about a month I managed to partially remove the the bindings long enough to cast an advanced memory spell essentially making a copy of me and dropping it directly into your shattered mind, and form there i helped your mind categorize all the information so it had a chance to remake the being currently sitting in front of me."

"Well then......" I just sat there with a dumb expression on my face trying to process what twilight had just told me. All of a sudden a huge tremor shook the archives to there very core.

Twilight looked around with a annoyed expression and said into the air, "Oh come on did you really have to pick now of all times to start waking up, I really need a little longer with him." she turned to me and said, "we have run out of time for now you are beginning to wake up so remember you can still talk to me via the star. Oh and good luck."  She smiled and waved then everything fell away.