Richards Alternate Universe

Sunset Shimmer was walking home from school one day. She noticed that rich hadn't been to school all day, she thought rich was just sick. As she was passing by his house she heard the sound of something falling over and glass breaking. She approached the house with cation. She knocked on the door, it slowly swung open on its own. The door hadn't been closed all the way. When she stepped inside she was shocked by what she saw. All the lights were off and the windows were painted over. There was furniture flipped over, tables broken in half and metal racks knocked over. One thing caught sunsets eye, it was a picture. It showed a man, a woman and rich in between them. She brushed off the broken glass on top of it and picked it up. They all appeared to be smiling. Sunset heard another crash come from up stairs. She slowly walked up the stairs, when she reached the top floor she saw more wreckage. There was a room at the top of the steps and then a hall way with two other rooms to her right. Sunset peaked inside the open door of the first room. She didn't see anyone among the debris, she slowly pulled her head out from the first room and made her way to the second. The room was located on the right side of the hall, once again the door was open. She peaked in to find nothing. She turned the walk towards the last door, it was on the left side of the hall. She spotted a bathroom door at the end of the hall, it was right next to the last room.

She noticed the last bed room door was mostly closed, but it was still open a crack. With a light push the door swung open, sunsets gaze immediately fell on rich. He was on the floor slumped up against the wall, he was surrounded by debris. He had his usual clothing on. Rich lifted his head a little, he saw sunset but didn't say anything. He had a blank expression on, but his eyes were red and puffy like he hadn't slept. sunset began to slowly walk her way towards rich, stepping over various pieces of debris. She sat down next to rich with her back against the same wall he was slumped up against. She pulled her legs close to her body and started speaking.

"Rich, what's going o-" before she could finish rich started speaking.

"Do you know what it's like to have a monster inside you? One that you can't control, and always tries to break out at night? One that does things to people and you don't want it to?" Rich said in a raspy tone.

"What do you mean rich?" Sunset asked. Rich started laughing for a moment.

"You know that thing that killed those men last week at the park, the drug dealers? That thing is inside me. This thing, it's gory, horrific, and terrifying. It's the reason my family disowned me. They saw what I could become and they pushed me away. There's good and evil in all of us, this thing, the rider, it hunts and kills people that have more evil than good inside of them." He started laughing again." And don't get me wrong, I love it. He he he ha ha ha ha. He's the only friend I have in this wretched world. Everyone else leaves me once they find out. So go, leave me like everyone else. It's only natural."

"No, I'm getting you help." Sunset said, rich just started laughing again but it was cut short by a fit of coughing. Sunset dialed a number on her phone and put it to her ear. "Hey, Rainbow dash? It's sunset, I need you to come to ********** ***** ave. me and rich are on the top floor in the final room on the left, rich needs help."

With in minutes Rainbow was there, sunset and Rainbow dash put them selves under his arms to walk him to the car. As soon as he touched the sun light, rich fell to his hands and knees and vomited. He only did so once so the girls picked him up again. Once they got hi to the car, they drove him to the hospital. Rainbow gave him a bucket in case he was going to vomit again. The sun was slowly setting, rich starred at the setting sun with wide eyes.

"You need to let me out, now." Rich said in a raspy tone.

"No, you need help." Sunset said. Rich looked back out the window to see the sun drop below the horizon. As soon as the sun was down he started convulsing in pain. Sunset noticed this but she didn't know what rich would do, rich opened the door to the moving car and jumped out. The street they were on was empty, and only lit by street lights. Rich started to stand up as Rainbow stopped the car, they both got out and they were shocked by what they saw. White smoke was emanating from his skin, rich started screaming as he started catching fire. With in seconds the screaming was replaced with an insane laughter. The skin started coming of in chunks and they saw the charcoal black skull, fire started emanating from the gaps in the skin. Rich stopped laughing once he was nothing but a flaming charcoal black skeleton wearing leather clothes. The thing that rich became was swaying its head from side to side, it was almost like a cobra would do.

Rich wasn't facing the two girls straight on, right side was facing them. Rainbow, in fear, swung at the thing.

"What did you do with rich!" She screamed, the thing caught her hand before it even impacted with his head. The thing looked sharply left, both girls looked for what he was looking at. They saw a Harley Davidson sportster 48 approaching quick, the tires were in flames and the engine parts seemed to glow red hot in the dark. The bike stopped next to the thing and it got on, with a quick twist of the throttle it was off. The bike left a thick trail of smoke and a thin line of fire.

"Uh sunset? What was that!?" Rainbow dash asked. She pieced together what rich had said, the realization hit her that he was not imagining things from being sick. He was telling the truth.

"It was rich."

"What? How?" Rainbow asked.

"He was mumbling some stuff to me when I found him, I thought he was dreaming things up because of a high fever."

"Well what did he say!?" Rainbow asked.

"He said the thing on those security tapes, the one that brutally murdered those drug dealers, he said it was inside him. And that it prey's on people that have more evil in them then good. He said it only comes out at night. I didn't believe him, why didn't I believe him?" Sunset said, Rainbow pit a hand on her shoulder.

"Hey, you did what you thought was right, you thought he was very sick so you tried to take him to the hospital. Although I still wonder about something." Rainbow said.

"Yeah, what's that?" Sunset asked.

"Why did he hurl when he walked into the sun light?"

"I don't think that was him that barfed, I think it was the thing inside him. From what he said it only comes out at night, that must mean the sun light hurts it in some way." Sunset explained.

"Well let's follow him!" Rainbow said, suddenly the two girls heard a screech and a loud smash. Another car had rear ended her car. Two men got out and inspected the damage. Rainbow dash approached them, and sunset followed behind.

"Hey what the hell man! This is a new car!" Rainbow shouted.

"Sorry about that, me and my friends were joking around and I didn't see your car." The two girls didn't see it, but four other guys got out on the other side and we're making their way around the two cars. They were all carrying guns with them, the road they were on was out in the woods so no one would notice. The man kept talking with Rainbow dash about the damages, while the others quietly surrounded them. Rainbow dash pulled her hand back to wind up a punch.

"Why you!" She screamed.

"I wouldn't do that, look around you." The man said. The girls looked around to see four men, each twenty feet away and carrying guns. The man spoke again. "If I was you, I would come quietly. Oh and if you scream, no one will hear it, and it would be such a waste, we'd have to shoot you." A suddenly, loud, inhuman laugh was hear in the distance. Suddenly from around the bend in the road, a flaming bike appeared with a flaming man on it.

"Rich, help." Sunset quietly said to her self.

"Who's this clown, boys take care of it." One of the men started shooting, he finished a whole clip and the thing seemed unphased. It got of its bike and approached the man who shot him slowly. The man just stood there in fear, the thing stopped in front of him. It didn't move what so ever.

"Ha, he ain't gonna hurt no b-*coughing*" the thing had moved its had in a flash and grappled the man by the throat, it squeezed harder and harder until it's fingers sunk into the skin. It swiftly yanked its hand back and a chunk of the mans throat came with it. The thing dropped the chunk to the ground as the man fell. As the man lay there on his back, gasping for air, the thing swiftly put its foot down on his face. The mans skull flattened as if it was a card board box. It ran up to the next gun man and grabbed him by the sides of the head, it took a deep breath inward and pulled the mans mouth open. We hit exhaled down his throat, fire came out of his mouth. It was burning the man alive from the inside out. The man died quickly and turned into an ash pile. The third gun man tried to run, but the thing whipped something around. It wasn't until it stopped that they all realized that it was a chain with a hook on the end. The hook had gone right through the mans skull. The thing yanked the chain and a chunk of the gun mans head came off. The gun man turned into ashes shortly after. The final gun man had dropped to his knees. The thing walked up to him, it grabbed the mans body with one hand, and grabbed the mans head with the other. It pushed the head down so quickly and violently that the spine was forced up into the skull. The final two men didn't have guns, and they did all the talking. They were standing next to each other, the thing whipped the chain around again. It wrapped around the two men, they started to scream as the red hot chains were burning them. The thing yanked the chain for a final time and they turned to ashes.

After the thing cleaned up the remains of the first man it killed. It started to walk towards Rainbow and Sunset. Rainbow pulled her arm back and hit it in the face.

"Leave us alone!" Rainbow screamed, The thing threw its head back for a second after it was hit. It stumbled back for one step. It raised one hand and stuck out one finger, the finger was pointing upward. It slowly started waving it side to side. Sunset couldn't help but laugh at this. Both Rainbow and the thing looked at her. Sunset just looked at Rainbow.

"What, it has a sense of humor. It told you off in the most ironic way. It killed all these people, but when you hit him he just waves his finger at you." Sunset said threw periodic chuckles, Rainbow couldn't help but join in. The both laughed for a minute, the thing was just looking back and forth at each of them. It walked closer to rainbow and started checking her.

"Hey! What are you doing!?" Rainbow said, the thing stopped and approached Sunset. It proceeded to do the same thing.

"I think it's checking to make sure we're unharmed." Sunset said. The thing stopped checking Sunset and walked back toward its bike. It reeved the engine twice then it took off.

Sunset and Rainbow made it home safely, despite the fact that Rainbow dashes car was damaged. The next day after school, sunset checked on Rich. He didn't come to school again so she wanted to make sure he was fine. She knocked on the fully closed door and rich opened it. The house wasn't trashed anymore and Richards eyes weren't red.

"Hey Rich, I just came to check on you. You didn't show up to school again, so I just wanted to be sure you were alright." Sunset said with a blush.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I've just been cleaning all day, the house is done now though." Rich said with a smile.

"Oh, ok. Hey rich?" Sunset said.

"Yeah."

"Me and the other girls are going to sugar cube corner to hang out, do you want to come?" Sunset asked nervously.

"Sure why not, you walking there?" Rich said.

"Uh, yeah, right after this actually." Sunset said with a blush, she tried to hide it with a smile.

"Alright then." Rich grabbed his jacket and his keys.

"Why are you taking your bike keys?" Sunset asked.

"I'm giving you a ride up there." Rich said, he handed sunset a full head helmet. Sunset took it and put it on, Rich opened his Garage and rolled the bike out. He got on and motioned for sunset to get on. She got on and rich started the bike.

"Now hold on tight." Rich said, sunset wraped her arms around him and put her feet up on the passengers foot pegs. The bike started slowly and gradually got faster. The whole time sunset couldn't help but think, 'I can't believe I'm this close to him right now, I'm technically hugging him right now and no one cares or suspects a thing.'