What You Wish For 2: The Book of Unicorn

Creepy Black

Applejack groaned as she pulled herself to her hooves, only to realize her and her group were in a lab. Applejack went to help her friends up as she said, “Ah think Alex was right, we did get separated.”

As Fluttershy woke up she began to have a mini panic attack as she said, “W-Where are we?”

Suddenly the voice of an old man came out of nowhere, “Oh hello there! I didn’t see you come in here? My name is professor Oak; tell me, what are your names?”

Dash trotted up to him as she said, “My name is Rainbow Dash, the most awesome flier in Equestria!”

The old man smiled as he said, “Well hello, my name is Rainbow Dash the most awesome flier in Equestria, tell me are you a boy or a girl?”

Dash raised an eyebrow at him and said, “Girl…”

Fluttershy walked up next as he said, “Oh please you need to help us”

Before she could finish Oak said, “What is your name?”

“Fluttershy.”

“Well hello Fluttershy, are you a boy or a girl.”

“I’m a girl.”

“What might your name be?” Oak brought his empty gaze over to the white unicorn.

Rarity trotted up to him and gave him a nod of her head as she said, “My name is Rarity.”

“Are you a boy or a girl?”

Rarity was hesitant for a couple of seconds due to the lack of options before saying, “I’m not a girl. I’m a lady.”

The old professor simply repeated, “Are you a boy or a girl?”

Rarity scoffed before saying, “I’m… a girl.” Rarity then trotted off to the rest of her group as she whispered to them, “How rude.”

Applejack was next and was already ahead of him as she said, “My name’s Applejack. Boy it sure is a good thing we found someone smart.”

The professor didn’t even blink before saying, “Well Mr. Applejack, follow me along with the rest of the group and we can get started on choosing your starters.”

Applejack trotted up next to the group as she said, “For a professor he ain’t to smart. He thought just because ah said boy it means ah am one.”

Fluttershy nudged Applejack as she said, “Well it could be worse right?”

Right them the professor showed four red and white balls as he said with a twinkle in his eye, “Now only one of you can chose a starter, I’m terribly sorry about that but we have a lack of them.”

Fluttershy tilted her head as she walked up next to them as she said, “Starters?” Immediately when she touched one of the spherical objects it opened up to reveal a yellow rat inside with bright red cheeks. Fluttershy smiled greatly as she said with joy, “Oh my! This game has adorable animals. I wonder what’s in the other ones?” Fluttershy began to have the time of her life opening up each ball to reveal a small red dragon with a fire on it’s tail, a blue turtle that reminded her of Tank and some weird cross between a flower and something else. She looked at them as she showed obvious signs of struggle, after a couple of seconds she looked at the professor and said, “You promise that the ones I don’t pick will be fed? And you promise to put out that poor baby dragon’s tail when I’m gone?”

Professor Oak simply smiled as he said, “Don’t worry, Fluttershy. These Pokémon will find a safe trainer someday.”

Fluttershy felt confident in trusting the Professor as she pointed at the yellow rat and said, “I choose this cutesy wutesy yellow baby rat.”

The professor smiled as he nodded and said with a gentle laugh, “Ah the Pickachu. Such a cute pokemon isn’t it?” The professor handed her the red and yellow ball as he explained, “Obviously you are new to the world of Pokémon so let me explain,” The face suddenly melted away, Fluttershy screamed at the top of her lungs when she saw this happen only to hear the same voice as earlier say, “Your first task is to beat the entire first gym in this city in fifteen minutes, or I shall unleash all your inner Zalgos. Good luck!” The professors face slowly began to reform, she darkness in the room disappearing as soon as his face was reconstructed only to hear him say, “Do you understand?” The professor showed no sign that anything happed just there, he only smiled at the group.

Applejack walked up next to Fluttershy as she said, “Don’t worry, we understand.” Applejack turned to Fluttershy and said with a concerned look, “Let’s get this over with, let’s get to that gym!” Fluttershy simply nodded, she began to think of the cute yellow creature that was cuddled up inside the magic ball and couldn’t help but smile.

As the group began to head for the exit the professor said as the doors closed on them, “Welcome… welcome to Pokémon Creepy Black.” Dash looked at the professor’s eyes only to see them curl into the back of his head as he gently laughed.

Dash gulped down her fear and joined the small group outside as she said, “Let’s take a look at the small rat you got.”

Fluttershy smiled as she pressed a small button on the face of it while saying, “Okay. Come on out little guy.” The ball slowly began to open, inside it was the creature she had before. Only something was terribly wrong with it, it barely resembled the creature she chose. Fluttershy screamed in horror as she dropped the red and white ball on the ground only to see a torn up and mutilated carcass that once belonged to an adorable creature. It’s yellow fur was stained with blood all over and there were limbs missing on it, it’s eyes were torn out of it’s skull and had a note next to the body. Fluttershy fell to the ground crying her eyes out blaming it all on her while Rarity hovered the somehow clean note to her face and read it out loud, “You’re Pikachu has died, you now have it’s ghost as your pokemon.” Rarity looked down at the crying yellow pegasus as she said with a comforting look in her eyes, “Dear, remember this is just a game. Chances are we are probable still sleeping on that moon right now.”

Fluttershy held up the dead body of the creature as she said in a shaky voice, “I… I… killed it.” Fluttershy continued to cry her eyes out only to hear the name of the yellow creature a couple of times. Fluttershy looked up to see a see through version of the rat nudging her hair; it looked as though nothing had ever happened to it before. Fluttershy looked at it for a couple of seconds before saying, “I… I’m so sorry for killing you. I didn’t know that you would die in that small ball.”

The little yellow creature looked around to make sure there were no others around before it said to the group, “You need to get out fast! This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be played.”

Rainbow Dash walked up next to it as she said, “Well, that’s what we’re trying to do. We need to get to a gym and win it… I think?”

The yellow ghost looked up at her as it said in a concerned but adorable voice, “This gym isn’t going to be easy. I don’t know how things work in your world but here when you lose you are killed.”

The girls surrounding the small yellow ghost looked horrified to hear such a thing as Applejack stuttered, “K-k-killed?”

The yellow ghost nodded his head as he said, “Unfortunately yes.”

Rainbow Dash trotted up closer as she said bravely, “Well then we will just have to do our best not to lose right? Then no one dies.”

Pikachu shook his head again as he said, “Rules state that if you win you have to murder your opponent. So no matter who wins, the two players lose. One loses their life, the other loses their sense of morality.”

Fluttershy began to panic along with the rest as she said, “I can’t go killing innocent people, that’s just mean… I want to go home.”

Twilight flipped onto her back with fear when the sinister voice returned as evil as ever as it said, “Better hurry up… clock’s ticking.”

Applejack helped her friend up as she said, “Fluttershy… this is one of those moments where ya have ta say to heck with it all. When we win the gym thingy, we’ll read a prayer or somethin’ like an apology to the other player. Maybe then they will forgive us.”

Rarity trotted by as she picked up the white and red ball and said, “Or we can altogether break the rules in order to do a good thing. A real lady never breaks the rules but then again a real lady never kills. Where is this gym, uh… thing?”

“I told you my name is Pikachu… wait why should I even be talking?” Pikachu began to wonder where he got his abilities to even talk before Fluttershy snuggled him into his ball before gently closing it.

Fluttershy began to walk slowly as she said, “I wish Alex were here, he would know what to do…”

Dash looked around the seemingly peaceful town as she said, “I wish everyone else was here… I hate being separated from the rest of the group.”

Applejack looked at the buildings as she said to Dash, “Doesn’t this place remind you of anything? It feels like we’ve seen this or at least something like this before.”

Dash began to rub her chin as she said, “Yeah… I think I know what you mean… wait didn’t we play a video game that had a very similar name to this?”

Applejack looked over at Dash as she said with a look of confusion, “Yeah I think we did… Alex gave us a game called Pokémon and told us that it was a big part of when he was young and a huge part of today’s society.”

Dash began to look a little more confident as she said, “Well if that’s the case then I know what to do now! I beat the entire game and know all the tips we need to beat the gym!”

Applejack shook her head as she said, “But if this is all from a game… how are we in it?”

Dash looked around as she said, “You’re right… Midnight Man must have tapped into our thoughts and fears… but how would we not have noticed?”

Rarity looked around the little village as she said, “Last I recall we were landing on the moon and fell asleep inside Nightmare Moon’s castle…”

Fluttershy began to wonder as she twirled around, “Well then how did we get here?”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash began to have the same thought as Dash said, “Wait… did anypony else here see Inception?”

Fluttershy and Rarity shook their heads in disagreement which led Applejack to say with Applejack to say with a growing smile, “Are you suggesting that this is all a dream?”

Rainbow Dash began to hover in the air as she said, “Look around you, the signs are all so clear now that we shed some light on them. The lack of memory of arrival, the last memory was all of us falling asleep and…” Dash then pursued to tackle Applejack violently as she said with a smile, “Lack of pain! We’re in a dream!”

Rarity began to understand what was going on as she said, “So we must be lucid dreaming!”

Fluttershy piped up as she said, “Lucid what?”

Rarity trotted by as she said, “Lucid dreaming is when your conscious mind has taken over thee unconscious’ job of dreaming making you fully aware that you are dreaming and giving you full control of the surrounding area.”

Fluttershy began to smile as she said, “So I don’t have to hurt anyone?”

Rarity shook her head as she said, “Nope, this is our dream… let’s make sure it’s not a nightmare.” Rarity then trotted off as she said, “Wait… I don’t know where this gym is…”

Dash trotted by Rarity as she said, “Follow me and AJ, we know where this gym is, you ready Pikachu?”

The yellow ghost floated by the two of them as he said with a squeak, “As ready as I’ll ever be. You sure you’ll be able to win this gym no problem and without having to hurt anyone?”

Applejack winked as she said, “This is our dream isn’t it? We make the rules.”

The yellow ghost floated by Fluttershy as it said, “So if this is your dream… then how am I aware of what’s going on? How am I able to think and communicate despite knowing I’m not an existing creature?”

Fluttershy squeaked as she said, “Maybe it’s because you are a part of all of our imagination and we attached to you, causing us to believe in you and depend on you making our subconscious create a character with depth.”

Rainbow turned around as she said, “Please speak English!”

Fluttershy looked up at the group as she said, “Maybe because we believed he was real, he became real in our heads.”

Applejack began to look a little sad as she said, “But that means that once we leave, you leave as well…”

Pikachu simply smiled as he said, “As long as I know this isn’t what life is supposed to be like I will always be happy. Come on you don’t have much time left.”

*****

One of the trainers was playing with his Bulbasaur in the locker room, tossing him treats and laughing with his friend when a tall mysterious man stepped into the room saying, “Are you John O’Conner?”

The trainer looked up, he began to feel a little uneasy staring at the way this man dressed, he couldn’t get himself to look beyond the neck tie as he said, “Who are you? You’re not Team Rocket.”

The man slowly approached, his voice was weak but as sinister as the devil himself, as he circled the boy and his Pokémon he said, “You don’t look like me… I’m supposed to be the only one in this competition?”

The boy watched as his Bulbasaur began to cower away from the man for no reason; he was beginning to feel helpless for some reason as he said, “What are you saying?”

The man kneeled down and rested his hand on the boy’s shoulder as he said, “You are relieved from duty, kid. By the way my name is the Midnight Man.” As soon as he said his name, the kid fell to his knees as he screamed at the top of his lungs, his jaw stretching open as much as possible. The most horrifying images passing through the kids head as the man’s bony fingers sank under his skin and into his face. The kid began to scream to the point of rupturing his lungs and ripping his vocal cords, his throat filling with blood as he began to gurgle. The tall man watched as the boy’s mouth began to rip at the corners because of how wide it was, he watched as he heard the beautiful snap of the boys jaw and blood dripping onto the ground. The tall man picked the boy up, his fingers clearly visible under the boy’s skin as he said, “Otherwise known as Slenderman.” With the remaining life inside the boy, he looked down into the eyes of his killer before dying. His bones suddenly disappeared from his body as a large blob of boneless skin fell to the floor dripping with blood. Slenderman looked down at the Bulbasaur as it was being dragged underground by dark shadowy hands. Once the creature was gone and the boy was dead he looked down at his very own Pokeball fashioned from the skull of a child as he said in a very sinister voice, “Soon my dog… you shall consume your next victim. For now… we must make sure that our contestants shall face us in the field of battle and to do that… we must eliminate all other players.”

The body of skin watched as the tall and mysterious figure walked out of the room and watched it’s shadow grow tendrils from the back before hearing the sounds of children screaming followed by the sound of blood splattering against the wall. He listened as one of the youngest not even older than twelve say, “Why?”

The last thing the sack of skin heard before fully dying was Slenderman saying, “Because it has been my job ever since…” Before anything else was said, the sack of skin’s eyes rolled back into its head and died.

*****

Fluttershy and the rest approached the sign of the gym which had another sign slung over it. Fluttershy slowly read it in a shaky voice, “Our hearts go out to the families of the contestants who have recently and most mysteriously died. May the last contestant feel lucky. They… died.”

Dash trotted by angrily as she said in a serious tone, “This was obviously at the hands of Midnight Man! I know this is a dream but his love for killing has gone way too far.”

Applejack trotted up next to Dash as she said, “Ah agree, this is truly one rotten apple.”

Rarity and Fluttershy both screamed as they watched the door open in front of them and a silent laughter blow through the wind around them. Fluttershy was ready to take off and leave the group but Dash grabbed her tail in her mouth as she said, “Woah there. WE need to how this creep whose boos right? Remember, this is our dream so we are in control. Why not make this fun?”

Fluttershy slowly trotted inside as she said with a shaky voice, “Girls… I think rotten apple would be complimenting him.”

The other three trotted in with the yellow ghost quickly behind, once inside the Pikachu nearly died all over again of fright at what they were seeing. All about the room there were bodies, none of them had bones inside them. Lots of the bodies were impaled on objects and were torn open with their organs showing. One body remained barely alive as it somehow dragged its floppy boneless blob of a body towards them while saying, “R…Run.”

Fluttershy and the rest were already way ahead of him as they dashed for the door only to see it close on them violently. As they slowly turned around Rarity said in a shaky voice, “Rainbow… did you happen to mention that it isn’t possible to die in your sleep.”

Dash gulped as she said in a frightful voice, “I never said we couldn’t die in our sleep… remember this is”

Before she could say anything more the very voice they came to know as Midnight Man laughed as it said, “Your dream? Oh give me a break… This is my dream you are all in, how else am I capable of creating such chaos? Nonetheless I am a man of my promise and shall fight you in the Pokémon stadium.” The lights suddenly turned on to reveal the man in a black suit at the other end of the room, shadows covering his face as he simply stood there holding a skull in his hand.

Applejack closed her eyes as she approached the place with a ton of shaking in her hooves as she said, “Where is your creature?”

The tall man rolled the skull into the middle of the room as he said, “Tis right there. Where is yours?”

Applejack kept her eyes closed as she said, “Pikachu… come on out.”

As she said that the small yellow ghost hovered in front of Applejack but seemed just as scared as the rest of them as it said, “Don’t worry, I’ll handle this for you. I shall take the blame of killing this creature.”

Applejack shook her head as she said, “You wouldn’t be takin’ a blame fer killin’ this thing, you would be claimin’ th’ honor of killin’ it.”

Midnight Man laughed gently as he said, “It appears that you have chosen the Pikachu as your Pokémon of your choice… meet mine,” Midnight Man proceeded to snap his bony fingers as he said, “Smile Dog… I choose you.” The skull the man was carrying rolled into the middle of the room where it popped open causing the ponies to jump backwards a bit. The ball shook and shook as a Husky began to climb out of it.

Once it was completely out Fluttershy took a look at it as she said, “It’s… a husky. I thought that you would have chosen something scarier.”

Midnight Man laughed as he said, “Oh is this not scary enough?” Fluttershy began to back away in terror along with the rest of them as they watched the husky change. It’s mouth began to open wider and wider, it’s teeth taking on the shape of a human as all of its colors began to turn red. It’s eyes beginning to enlarge and have multiple rings inside the red irises. Once it was complete it was a completely different creature that the ponies couldn’t help but look at. As the dog stood there, smiling, Midnight Man laughed silently as he said, “Kill them.”

The dog began to run for them at high speeds making a shrieking that was unbearable to listen to. Fluttershy covered her ears as she said, “This is my dream…” She squealed when she saw the creature tackle the poor Pikachu and tear it apart as she said louder, “This is my dream. This is my dream!” Fluttershy screamed at the top of her lungs, “THIS IS MY DREAM!” Suddenly everything stopped in the room as Fluttershy began to hover there, a bright warm thread of light circling her as she stood there courageously. Fluttershy walked up to the dog only to have it charge at her before she said in an angry voice, “Go away! You’re not real!” The dog then disappeared into thin air. The other three were stunned to see what was going on. Fluttershy approached Midnight Man as she said, “As for you! I don’t care who you are but what you did here was wrong!”

Fluttershy began to hover higher over top of Slenderman, he didn’t at all seem afraid of her until Rainbow shouted, “Shy you did it! Smile Dog is gone and Midnight Man was just triumphed like that. We won!”

Fluttershy looked down at the gangly man to see him begin to fall to the ground, his limbs slowly fading away as he said, “How… how did you?”

Fluttershy looked down in disapproval at her opponent as she said, “You spent too much time trying to scare us and distract us from finding out that this is all a dream rather than actually give us a challenge. Now that we are aware that this is our dream we are in full control. We demand that you end this game or I will give you a reason to be scared.”

Midnight Man said after a few seconds of silence, it’s body nearly gone, “Fine, I shall end this game and return things to normal as well, as long as you proceed to the next game.”

Fluttershy nodded her head as she said, “Bring all these people back to good health, bring our dear and helpful friend Pikachu back to life as well and we shall proceed.”

The man snapped his invisible fingers as he said, “Very well.” With that, he was gone and in a flash of bright light everything was returning to normal. The sun was coming out of the clouds and the once dead and mutilated kids were back to normal bones and everything.

Fluttershy turned around to see the yellow rat like creature smiling up at her as it said, “Pikachu!”

Applejack trotted up and hugged Fluttershy along with the rest as they said, “We had no idea that you had that in you. To actually stand up to something even we were afraid of.”

Rarity hugged Fluttershy tightly as she said, “You have taught us all that heroes come from those we least expect as well.” The group gathered in a big hug as every child in the room crowded them with cheers of delight. As the lights began to brighten so did the hearts of the four ponies who now had one of the greatest weapons on their side, the power of the dreamers. The lights eventually consumed everything they saw as their bodies were filled with warm feelings before there was nothing.

As they floated in the empty space, Fluttershy said to herself, “Now I can see Alex again.” Then she felt nothing as darkness enveloped her.