The Commander, The Keyblade Master, and the Psycho

‘Okay Joel, I’m sure there’s a logical explanation here somewhere for all of this…’ I repeated to myself over and over again in my head.

‘I WANT TO DRIVE OUR MEAT BICYCLE! I WANT TO KILL!!!’ Krieg’s voice rang out in my head over my own thoughts. I grabbed part of my forehead in pain as I was hit with another head ache.

“Um, p-p-p-pl-ple-please lay b-b-back down…?” Fluttershy’s voice pulled me out of my minds struggle, her voice trembling and her legs were shaking even more underneath her and I frowned. It wasn’t right to see Fluttershy so scared, especially since I was the one scaring her. At her request and some of my own choice to do so anyway, I went back to the bed and laid down again.

‘WHY ARE WE TRYING TO SLEEP?! I WANT TO KILL KILL KILL!!’ Krieg’s voice echoed in my head again, giving me another massive head ache, which told me that the two were connected someway. Slowly one by one the five ponies that were hiding under the bed slowly came out of hiding.

“So this thing can understand us?” Dash asked as she looked over to Fluttershy.

“I guess it can, but that could just be my ability to handle animals so well…” Fluttershy said as she walked over to her friends.

“WHO YOU CALLING AN ANIMAL BUG BUTT?!!” My hand launched itself to my mask covered mouth as Krieg’s voice erupted from it loud enough to nearly give half the ponies in the room a heart attack.

“It talked! It can speak!” Pinkie exclaimed, with more excitement rather than fear.

“And it seems to not have any manners what so ever!” Rarity said with disgust in her voice from the ‘bug butt’ part of what Krieg said.

“Sorry about that…” I said softly in my own voice which clearly caught the ponies off guard since my voice was completely different from Krieg’s.

“NO, NO SORRIES! SHE CALLED US NAMES! SO WE CALL HER NAMES!” Krieg’s voice boomed out again as I was hit with another headache which caused me to hold my head in pain.

“Shut up!” I yelled at him as my headache started to get worse and worse.

“Um, I’m sorry…?” Fluttershy’s voice brought me out of my agonizing headache and silenced Krieg’s voice in my head as I looked over to see the ponies with either a look of horror, confusion, or a mix of the two.

“No, I… WE’RE sorry…” I said as I was hit with another head ache as Krieg raged at me inside my head.

“Um, we?” Applejack asked aloud which once again silenced Krieg’s voice in my head. I gave a sigh of relief as I was now able to let go of my head.

“It’s complicated…” I mumbled as I closed my eyes and began taking deep breaths to try and calm my nerves and tried to collect my thoughts without interruptions. Sadly it was not to last it seemed as there was a loud *POOF* and I looked over to find that two more ponies had joined us. One was a short purple alicorn, the other was almost my size and white with a long flowing mane. “Aw crud…” I mumbled under my breath.

“I’m back and I brought the princess with me, is everything okay?!” Twilight nearly yelled as she rushed over to her friends with a look of concern was on her face.

“Um well I guess so…?” Fluttershy said as she looked over at the two princesses. I took note that Celestia was looking me over with an expressionless face. She showed no fear, curiosity, or anything and it kind of creeped me out and I looked away. But even as I did so I could feel her eyes on me as Fluttershy explained everything that had happened since I woke up.

“I see, I think I know what’s wrong with our friend here.” Celestia said as I heard her hoofsteps against the wooden floor as she walked over to the side of the bed.

“What do you mean princess? He’s got a saw in his head, of course there’s something wrong with him!” Dash said and Krieg let out a snarl and I could faintly hear the wind of Dash flying to hide behind someone.

“I’m not speaking of what is physically wrong with him, I’m talking about mentally.” She said as I felt her eyes on me again. “Will you please roll over to face me please?” She asked in a calm yet pleasant voice, I did as asked and rolled over and came face to face with the princess of the sun. “I’m going to ask you BOTH some questions, I want you to answer them honestly okay?” I gave a nod but Krieg didn’t respond to any of this. “Who are you?”

“Joel…KRIEEEEG” Our voices mingled, apparently Psycho’s had a respect for authority.

“Where did you come from?”

“Earth…PANDORAAA”

“Why are you here?” We stayed silent, neither of really knew why we were here. I closed my eyes and shook my head and she frowned. “You don’t know? Well then what is the last thing you remember before waking up here?”

“A bright light…I, I’m beginning to remember, QUITE! KEEP THE MEMORIZE DOWN WITH A KNIFE TO ITS THROAT! SLASH IT UNTIL IT BLEEDS IT’S THOUGHT JUICES OVER THE DEAD UNTIL IT IS ABSORBED INTO NOTHINGNESSSS!”

“I see, and what are you exactly?”

“Human…HEHEHEHE, I KNOW WHAT I HAVE BECOME. I AM THE INSIDES OF THIS WORLD, I TASTE THE GORE, I SMELL THE CRYING, AND I WANT MORE! I WANT TO BATHE IN YOUR FLESH! I WANT TO SAVOR YOUR FEAR! I WANT TO LIVE IN A CASTLE BUILT OF YOUR AGONY, AND I WANT TO CRUMBLE IT WITH AN AXE TO YOUR CAROTID ARTERIES!!!”

“Alright and now for my last question. What would you do if the other did not hold you back?” Her question rendered me silent, I honestly didn’t know, but Krieg sure did.

“I WANT TO KILL!!!” I stayed silent as I looked from Celestia to the other ponies in the room. Not that it was much surprise that they held mixed faces of disgust, fear, and maybe a little anger towards Krieg for how he spoke to the princess.

“Joel, you did not answer my question.” Celestia’s voice pulled my attention away from the other to now face her once again. “What would you do, Joel?” I sat in silence as I pondered the question over and over in my head. What would I do? Try and go home? Unless I turned back to normal first I don’t think that would work out very well. So the next option, live here, still not exactly the best idea since I had a homicidal maniac living in my head. So in all honesty I didn’t know what I would do, I shook my head and she frowned again. “I see. Well then, thank you both for answering me honestly. You are free to do as you wish.”

“WHAT?!!!” The main six screamed out in unison and I almost screamed out with them as I looked up at the princess with disbelief.

“Forgive me princess but you heard him! He wants to kill you and probably everypony around him!” Dash yelled out in almost total anger.

“Ah agree with Rainbow Dash, this monster needs to be locked up in the deepest and darkest dungeon ya got!” AJ said as she pointed at me with her hoof.

“I third that movement, just look at what that vile beast’s words have done to poor dear Fluttershy!” Rarity exclaimed as she tried to comfort a now sobbing in fear Fluttershy on her shoulder. However Celestia shook her head at them.

“That is where you are wrong. Krieg wishes to kill, but Joel won’t let him, isn’t that right Joel?” She said in a calm voice as she looked over at me with a smile that put me at ease. I gave a nod of agreement and the others looked on in disbelief, but Twilight seemed to be catching on.

“A multi-personality disorder… Of course!” Twilight exclaimed but Celestia shook her head.

“Not quiet I’m afraid, though the concept is very similar. That is not just one mind with different personalities. It is one mind with two different people in it. Joel and Krieg are two separate beings trapped inside one body. Joel seems to be kind, honest, and friendly. While Krieg is well…”

“NIPPLE SALADS! NIPPLE SALADS. NIPPLE SALADS!” Krieg blurted out and I groaned mentally in response.

“Well, you can see for yourself. However it seems that Krieg is weaker than Joel at this point. Joel appears to have the most control over the body they share, otherwise Krieg would have killed you all already.” Celestia said as the other listened faithfully, despite what she was saying was probably nonsense to them.

“Yer tellin’ me that this thing is actually two separate things at the same time? That don’t make a lick of sense.” AJ complained.

“Think of it this way Applejack…” Twilight said. “…You know how Princess Luna can enter your dreams? Now picture if she was somehow trapped in your head even after you woke up. You would be two separate ponies in the same body, that’s the same thing as these two right now.” She finished and pointed her hoof at me.

“Okay well I kind of understand that part. But still why don’t we lock them up?” Dash questioned, and honestly, I couldn’t blame her.

“Take the Luna inside AJ idea for an example Dash. If AJ did something bad that was worth being thrown in the dungeon, would it be fair to throw Luna in the dungeon with her?” Twilight explained and Dash quietly shook her head. “It wouldn’t be fair to Joel if we punished him for something Krieg does…”

“Just do it…” I muttered, drawing all of their attention. “Lock me up and throw away the key. I, I don’t want to hurt anybody…” I mumbled, only to be replied to with a soft laugh coming from Celestia.

“Oh come now Joel, surely you didn’t think I didn’t have something in mind that would let you walk around freely without fear of Krieg running rampant did you?” Her voice was once again very calm and soothing and it put me at ease. “Please close your eyes Joel and take a deep breath.” I nodded and did as she asked of me, closing my eyes slowly as I took in a deep breath.

At first everything was normal, just the blackness of the inside of my eyelids, until I heard something coming from Celestia and the other’s direction. Soon the blackness became a blinding white light before Celestia came into view, along with a slightly transparent Krieg. Krieg gave himself a look over and tried punching his arm, only for it to go through him and he repeated the process and expecting a different outcome. I looked myself over to find that I was still in Krieg’s body as well, but his voice and my headache were now gone.

“This is the deepest part of your unconscious mind.” Celestia spoke, grabbing both of our attentions. “Here neither of you can hurt each other or anypony else. All you can do is talk to each other. Since neither of you can currently live without the other, you must learn to coexist in this one body you have.”

“You mean strike a deal?” I asked and she gave a nod of her head smiling warmly.

“Precisely. Until both of you come to an agreement you will both remain trapped her while your body sleeps in the outside world. I shall wait your return to the real world, until then farewell Joel.” She said before the vision of her slowly faded out and it was just me and Krieg left. I decided I would be the one to make the first move for an agreement.

“Alright Krieg here’s the only deal I’m ever going to agree to. I’ll let you lose so you can kill as many of the deserving you want, but the second you touch an innocent person I’ll end us. That’s the deal, I’ll let you run rampant against any bad guys we encounter, but if you so much as think about hurting the innocent, I’ll slit our throat without a moment’s hesitation.” I said firmly in a voice that actually sounded like I meant what I said despite the fact I was scared to kill myself, but he didn’t know that. Krieg didn’t really say anything but he did grumbled to himself before he reluctantly nodded. With that there was another bright flash of white light before my eyes opened up to the ceiling of the house I was in again.

“My, that certainly was fast. I didn’t even have enough time to make some tea.” Celestia’s voice caught my attention as I looked over to see her and the mane six still in the room with me. “I take it things went well?”

“Yeah, I guess I can be very persuasive when I need to be.” I said with a soft chuckle and warm smile, not that any of them could see because of the mask.

“So what was your agreement?” She asked and I gave a sigh.

“I told him I would let him loose whenever there was trouble but the moment he tried to hurt anyone innocent I’d end us.” I said sitting up and looking out the window to find that I was in Fluttershy’s cottage by the small creek and bridge in front of her house.

“Joel, surely you don’t mean…?” Celestia asked, her voice had a hint of concern to it.

“Yup, and I meant every word of it.” I answered with a slight smirk before looking back to her. “Nothing gets your point across like a death threat…”