Author's Note

Finally! The chapter I've really been wanting to type! Craziness all up in this shit.

Chapter 19: Darkness and Despair

"♪This is your singing telegram I hope to find you well!♪"

*It's too fucking early for this.*

"♪You're invited to a party 'cause we think you're really swell!♪"

*Why did I decide to chose to sleep last night?*

"♪Gummy's turning one year old so come help us celebrate!♪" Said alligator is standing behind her.

*How do you have enough energy to sing this early?*

"♪The cake will be delicious, the festivities first-rate!♪"

*Why the fuck am I still standing here?*

"♪There will be games and dancing, bob for apples, cut a rug!♪"

*What the fuck's 'cut a rug'?*

"♪And when the party's over we'll gather 'round for a group hug!♪"

*This would be catchy if I wasn't groggy as fuck. Right...* I turn human robot form. *Wooo! Much better!*

"♪No need to bring a gift being there will be enough♪"

*Huh... it is very catchy. But it seems she's slowing down.*

"♪Birthdays mean having fun with friends, not getting lots of stuff!♪"

*She has a point there, I wonder if the reader is getting bored of this shit as much as me...*

"♪It won't be the same without you, so we hope that you say yes!♪"

*She's breathing heavily, does that means she's almost done?*

"♪So, please, oh please R.S.V.P., and come, and be our guest!♪" She stopped singing, now just breathing heavily.

"Last one or first one?"

"Second!"

"What time?"

"Afternoon!"

"Where?"

"My place!"

"I'll be there."

"YAAAAAAAY!!" She zips off without another word. Pinkie may or may not have been teaching me the art of destroying the fourth wall. It's actually really easy, when you get used to all the colors and references, and violent movement. At least I can understand what she does and how she does things, on a higher level of understanding...But at least I can understand what she's doing and what she's implying when she's around. It makes it so much easier in general.

"I wonder if the first one was Twi..." I walk around to the front and knock.

"Come in!" I do so.

*Spike must still be asleep.* "Hey Twi."

"Hi Streak! Did Pink-"

"Her place, afternoon, no need for gifts, Gummy's birthday."

"How..?"

"I've been taught in the arts of 'Breaking the fourth wall' as she calls it."\

"The thing we call 'Pinkie being Pinkie'?" I nod. "She taught YOU how to do it!?" I nod again. "Prove it." I smirk and disappear in front of her.

"Hey author!"

Was it a good thing that I gave you the power to break the fourth wall?

"As long as I don't bother you and you don't bother me i'm good."

Same. I think you should go back with Twi. She's starting to freak out.

"Oh yeah, see ya!"

Later.

(Back to Equestrian reality)

"That proof enough for you?" I reappeared inside the library, scaring Twi.

"What!? HOW!?"

"Pinkie being Pinkie. Streak being Streak. Leave at that. Unless you want furniture to fall on you again." She huffs.

"Fine."

"Anyway, you plan to go to Pinkie's party for gummy?" She scratches a hoof behind her head. "Oh yeah, Pinkies birthday is today too. Oh well." I walk off.

"Wait! What are you gonna do?"

"Not a god damm thing. Maybe help Aj set up party stuff."

"That sounds good." I nod and walk off to Sweet Apple Acres.

--------->>>>Three hours later<<<<---------

"Pinkie? What's-"

"Get away from me! YOU'RE NOT MY FRIEND!" I gallops off without another word. I I was walking around Town Square when Pinks ran into me. She asked if I knew anything about why the others were acting weirdly. I lied and told I didn't. She thought I was lying and she yelled at me, and now here I am. When she yelled that at me, my eyes faded to a cold grey, and my body lost color, leaving a dull grey. I knew she meant it. Years of learning how to lie like an attorney and you can tell when anyone else is lying. I knew she would be upset. But to say that she's not a friend anymore? Didn't expect that. And it left me depressed.

*Maybe this place is not entirely the same as the show...* I thought darkly to myself. I have an unusual way of dealing with this kind of shit. Instead of doing the normal thing; going about and find out why she said that to me. I instead go to a private place, and completely shut down. Become unresponsive. And depending on how bad the situation is, what people have called 'Secluded Silence' will last longer. And right now, i'm guessing it'll last a while. I blink home, to my room, fall to a pile of golden body parts, and shut down...

--------->>Twilight Sparkle<<---------

"Hey guys, where's Streak?" The party's already started, Streak should be here by now. We all look around, and we all see Pinkie looking a little guilty.

"Hehe... I may have told him to stay away from me, and that we're not friends." All of our jaws drop. "Yeah, he might be little upset." We all stare blankly at her.

"Ah think we should go look for him." We all nod in agreement.

"Yes, but were to look first?"

"How about his house? He could be there."

"Good idea! To his home then." We all gallop out of the barn and off to Streak's house...

--------->>>Golden Streak's house<<<---------

"Streak!? Are you here!?" We already got to his house and started looking around.

"Streak!? We're all worried about you!" Still no response.

"Streak darling! Are you alright?" Nothing.

"In here!" Rainbow calls us to his room. We all enter to see Streak on the floor, dismembered, in a pile of his own body parts. But that's not what worried us, we know he can do that. What worried us was that his eyes were pitch black.\

"Oh no! STREAK!" Fluttershy flew over to Streak, tears in her eyes. "Streak! Wake up! Please wake up! Please..." She collapses on top of Streak, sobbing loudly. I canter over to Fluttershy to comfort her. I catch a glimpse of his face, and I saw a small spark appeared in one of his eyes. I don't know what it means, but he's not gone.

"Streaky? Are you there?" No response. I look over to Pinkie, her mane is straight, but there's a sad look in her eyes. "Um... I'm sorry about yelling at you like that, and that I said you weren't my friend. I was just really upset that nopony showed up for Gummy's party. And I still feel really, really bad about it." Still no response. We all stand there in silence for some while. The silence broken by Fluttershy's soft sobbing. Eventually.

"I think we should go." We all nod. Applejack picks up Fluttershy and puts her onto her back. We were just about to canter out the door when we hear loud clanking stopped us. I turn around to see Streak getting up. But he's facing away from us.

"It takes a lot too make me like this." He turns to us. Now I see that his body has turned a dull grey. And his eyes are a light grey.

--------->>Golden Streak<<---------

"It takes a lot to make me like this." *My voice has even lost some of it's metallic ring.* The girls turn to me. All of them having a sad look, but brighten a little at the sight of me. I see Pinks and she's still sad.

"You girls know how I am, or at least I think I do. But either way, it takes a lot to make me like this, and it'll take some time." I open a portal and walk away without saying anything else. I warped back to earth, as a normal looking human. And I spend the next week or two there, becoming the richest man in the world. I didn't care at the moment, I was filled with depression, anger, and other mixed emotions to care. Rising to the top in days lead to questions from a lot of people, but it didn't matter to me. I had plans for all the wealth. I just wanted to wait and be left alone. But in the meantime I use the money to buy... things. You want me to tell you? Fine, i'm feeling better anyway, I never figured out how I rebound from anything as fast as I do. Like I can be really pissed off, but it'll only last for a day or two. Anyway, used the wealth to get some weapons, some that are not in my inventory. Like a mingun, high-powered sniper rifles, even some sci-fi weapons! When they go in my inventory they become operational. It's fucking awesome. I think I'm coming back from being a depressed piece of shit. Cool....

"Alright, I think i'm ready." I say to myself as I look at all the stuff I collected. Missiles, planes, drones, guns, sci-fi weapons. Even some new tech, like a brand new laptop, headphones and stuff like that. Anyway.

"Ready for what?" Some random guy asks me. I grin wildly at him. My body gets covered in a cloud of smoke. When it dissipates the guy freezes.

"Yup, it's me. Remember me?" He nods. "Good, go tell others, you won't find me." I open a fucking portal. But I wait until the police arrive, but instead the fucking military shows up. Did I forget to mention I bought a house in Hollywood? Meh... Now you know. Anyway, the military shows up in front of my house.

"Kill the fucker!" I hear some guy yell. My house is then bombarded by bullets a few explosions from rpgs, and a few shots from a tank. After a while, my house is reduced to rubble. With me standing above all the rubble.

"How the fuck is it still standing!?" I random soldier says.

"First of all, i'm a dude. Second, because i'm a fucking badass." I walk over to the nearest group of soldiers. Only to be shot at by assault rifles. A few more tank shells, and some more rpgs. Once i'm close enough, and they stop shooting me. "You have NO idea how powerful I am." I spawn myself a nuke. Earning a few gaping faces. "Yup, this shit again. SEEYA!!" I walk back to my portal. Only to be blocked by a tank, I think they even destroyed it. "You're only making me more angry, but no matter." I open a new portal. "CYA LATER FUCKERS!" I walk in the portal to Equestria.

"After him!" I see a group of soldiers running to my portal.

"I think you should be more concentrated on that nuke over there..." The portal closes while I point to the nuke. "Welp. I feel much much better now." I opened a portal to my home. I walk outside and blink over to Sugarcube Corner. I look inside and see that there's nopony inside. *Good.* I walk inside with the little bell chiming.

"Welcome to-!" Pinkie's managing the counter today, even better for me.

"Hey Pinks, what's the hap's?"

"S-streaky?" Her voice gets soft and quiet. Even her mane and tail deflate.

"Yeah, it's me. And yes, I accept your apology, I know you didn't mean it." Her eyes tear up and she sniffles. I kneel down and open my arms. "C'mere." She literally jumps into my arms, openly sobbing. We sit like there for a while. Cupcake comes down the stairs. She look at us, and a warm smile adorns her face. We nod to each other and she goes back up the stairs. And me and Pinks stay there for another ten minutes. After ten minutes she lets go. "Feel better." She looks up to me and nods.

"Want to go tell the others?" Pinkie smiles and nods again. SHe gets off of me and I stand up. "You wanna piggyback ride?" Her mane and tail poof back to their adorable messiness. She grins widely and nods again. Holding her forelegs out. I pick her up by the... armpits? I don't know what to call that little area. I hoist her up and place her hind legs on my shoulders. Her forelegs grab a hold of my head. I stay still while she gets comfy.

"Comfy?"

"Yes!"

"Good, so who first?" She thinks for a second.

"Fluttershy!"

"Okay!" I blink to Fluttershy's place. I walk up to the door and knock.

"Coming!" We hear the clip-clop of hooves on wood. And the door opens to a surprised Fluttershy.

"Hi Fluttershy!" We say in unison. Flutters is still standing there, wide eyed.

"Streak?" She whispers. I nod, and she jumps into my chest. Sobbing happily. "Oh thank goodness! I was so worried!"

"How long was I gone?"

"A month and a half." Oh.

"Oh... Well, it doesn't matter anymore, i'm here. No need to worry anymore." Flutters stays attached to my chest, death gripping me. I stroke her mane and scratch her in between the ears. Her sobbing gets replaced with soft purring. "Better?"

"Mmhmm."

"Good, who's next Pinks?"

"Applejack!"

"To the farm!" I hold Flutters like you would a baby, let her get comfy, and blink to Sweet Apple Acres. More specifically the farm looking home she and her family lives in. I walk up to the front door. Gently set Flutters down, and knock on the door.

"Comin'!" An old grainy voice calls out from inside. The door opens and I see Granny Smith. At the sight of me her eyes widen. "Aren't you that thing that helped out Applejack and Big Mac applebuck?"

"Yup."

"And your names Golden Streak?"

"Streak's just fine Ms. Smith." She smiles.

"Just call me Granny sonny." I smile and nod.

"Alright Granny. Oh, have you seen Applejack?" She nods.

"Why yes I have. She and Big Mac are bucking trees in the west part of the orchard."

"Thanks Granny."

"Anytime." She grabs a walker from nowhere and slowly canters back inside.

"having hip problems?" She stops and turns around.

"Yeah, old hip's been actin' up."

"I think I can help with that, and possibly more." Granny raises a brow.

"I'm listening." I hold out my hand.

"Put your hoof in my hand." She looks at my hand quizikly.

"Alright..." She puts a hoof in my outstretched hand. When it makes contact I close my eyes and use my magic to heal the hip. After it shows me an image of her skeleton. When the bone's healed I get an idea.

*I wonder if...* I focus on my magic, and think of making Granny physically and biologically younger. After a few minutes and I let go. I open my eyes to see a younger version of Granny Smith standing before me. Granny's just standing there, wide eyed.

"How... What di... How did you do this!?" I smirk.

"Magic."

"Streak?" Me and Flutters turn around to see that Aj and Big Mac have finished Applebucking. Aj staring at me, surprised.

"Yeah, what's up?" The baskets that were on her sides fall over, because she galloped over to me and hugged my legs.

"Ah missed you! We all missed you! We were all so worried for you!" I reach down and pat her on the neck.

"It's alright Aj, you know I can survive on my own. But that doesn't matter. I'm here now." She lets go.

"Just don't do that again."

"No promises." Aj grins while I smirk.

"Granny!?" Aj looks over to Big Mac, then to Granny Smith. Aaaand her jaw drops.

*Wait where the fuck is Pinkie?*

She's with me.

"Hi Streaky!" How come I can hear her in my head? "Because! I-"

She can break the fourth wall, to effectively do whatever the fuck she wants. You wanna get back to the story or what?

*Fine, come on Pink.s*

"OK!!" Pinkie comes back from... wherever the hell she was.

"Streak? What did you do?"

"How do you know it was me?" She deadpans. "Fine, I fixed her hip."

"Is that all?" The sarcasm can be heard all across the land.

"And I might of made her younger."

"Alright, at least she doesn't mind it." Granny hug my legs.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!" She lets go after a while.

"No problem, who next Pinks?"

"Rainbow!"

"Ok!" I gently pick up Flutters. And I get a thought. "You wanna come along Aj?" She thinks for second.

"Sure, why not. Ah'll see you two later." Mac and Granny smile and wave. "But how are you ganna take me to Rainbows?" I smirk.

"Magic." I cast a cloudwalking spell and Aj and blink all of us to Rainbow's cloud mansion.

"Cloud walkin' spell?" I nod. "Figures."

"SKITTLES!!" I shout, a crash and a thud can be heard from inside, followed by flapping. The door of the mansion swings open to a disturbed Rainbow.

"WHAT!?" When she sees me she freezes, even her wings lock up. Making her plop in the cloud floor.

"I think I just broke her." I wave a hand to her face, no response. An idea pops into my head. "I got an idea." I reach up and flick one of her ears. That snapped her out of it.

"OW!" She clamps a hoof over her ear. "It's good to see you too."

"Well you decided to freeze when you saw me." We smirk at each other.

"But seriously dude? It's great to see you again."

"You're making sound like we're an item." She blushes while the others giggle. "Anyway, it's good to be back, and don't ask where I was. You wanna come with us to go see Rares and Twi." Skittles shrugs her shoulders.

"Eh... Why not? I wasn't doing anything anyway."

"Like usual." I snicker at Aj's jibe. Rainbow glares at Aj.

"Anyway, to Rarity's?"

"Mmhmm!"

"Alrighty!" I blink us to Rarity's boutique. And one by one we enter.

"Welcome to The carousel Boutique! Where-" She freezes when she sees me.

"Hey Rares, long time no see."

"Streak!? Where have you been!? We were all worried about you, and it has been such a long time."

"I've been... Places... But it doesn't matter. How are you?"

"I've been fine."

"Cool, you wanna come with us to see Twi?" She puts a hoof to her chin. Then shrugs.

"Why not?"

"Alrighty then! To Twi's!" And I blink all of us to Twi's place. The girls crowd in front of me while Rainbow Knocks on the door.

"Coming!" We all hear hooves on wood as Twi nears the door. The door opens to a very surprised Twi. "Hey girls! What's up?"

"I'm up! That's what!" The girls side step to reveal me. Twi's eyes widen, and tear up a little. I was sitting on the ground when the girls parted.

"Streak?" I nod. "STREAK!!" She pounces me, hugging me while crying. "I never thought i'd see you again!"

"And what made you think of that?"

"You've been missing for A month and a half!" She then cries into my chest.

"Oh... Right..."

"Where were you anyways?" She says when shes calm enough.

"I don't want to talk about it. What matters right now is that i'm here, and nothing else." I looks up at me and wipes the tears with a hoof. A small smile curving her lips.

"O-*sniff*okay." She hugs me some more. I look up and the gang's looking at me with warm smiles. A few minutes go by and a loud burp is heard from inside the library. Twi looks up. "Can we go inside?" I nod and pink her up, while she still hugging me. We all go inside and Spike comes down the stairs.

"What is it Spike?"

"A letter from..." He looks at the scroll. "Prince Shining Armor."

Author's Note:

Don don doooon!