I’m My Own Master
Chapter 2:
Welcome To the Show

After wrenching Pinkie literally off Nightshade she darted off to tell the others. As she did that Applejack and Nightshade continued on their way to the hospital to see if there’s anything else about Nightshade that might be unknown…

1 Hour Later…

As Nightshade sat on his hospital bed he kept thinking about the bots and the random armor up as he decided to name it. He remembered it felt like his body changed to fit the armor or the other way around but he wasn’t sure, as he played on this memory Doctor… something he can’t really pronounce it so he called him Doc for short came into his room interrupting his train of thought.

“So Mr. Nightshade I looked over your test and I found out that this amnesia is unique” he said with a hint of surprise

“Unique?” Nightshade asked, confused by what he meant by unique

“Oh its nothing to worry about it’s just that in order to get your memory back it will either come back over time or certain things could trigger them to return but as far as your other tests go your mental state and physical state are just fine only one thing…” Doc explained

“One Thing?” asked Nightshade slightly worried that he may have figured it out

“You seem to have come under mental stress about an hour ago, could you possibly know why?” asked Doc suspiciously

“Um no I wouldn’t know I guess it might have happened when I found out I couldn’t remember anything” he explained but also lied to keep the whole voices thing to himself

“Well then I think your friends are here so I shall let you leave when you feel like it oh but one more thing” said Doc

“Only one friend really”

“Yea what is it?” asked Nightshade as he felt something bad was coming his way like a storm

“I can’t seem to figure out why your muzzle structure is different” he said as he put a hoof to his chin and Nightshade gave him a look

“I KNOW I GET IT!” shouted Nightshade in annoyance

“Well I’ll be going now” he said as he began to walk out

“Ok thanks Doc… and so what if my muzzle is different” Responded Nightshade as the 6 came in and only two he recognized the others no. But the first one that he did notice was the purple one.

She was an Alicorn as far as what his memory would give him but it seemed to eye him weirdly but he shrugged it off as the Rainbow maned mare spoke first and was right in his face.

“So you’re the one AJ told us about?” said Rainbow giving him a serious look

“Yes… she’s the one who helped me” Nightshade said carefully

“Well I think you’re just a liar” she said bluntly making Nightshade’s expression drop “You probably got those things to attack her and then probably send them after us not like they would be much of a problem against me” this seemed to strike a nerve in Nightshade

“Yea sure you can take them!”

“So you’re saying I should have let them hurt her and then probably do the same to me and if they were with me why would they attack me!?” he shouted making her back up “You’re either very brave or very stupid to accuse me!”

“Who are you calling stupid!?” she yelled back at him

“You! You’re the only one I’m talking to so I must be talking to you!” Nightshade yelled back as he got ready to hit her

“Alright that’s enough!” shouted the yellow Pegasus “Dash you should know better than to yell at ponies who were only trying to help”

“But Fluttershy he could-“started Dash but was silenced

“No just drop it” she then turned to Nightshade” Sorry about that, Dash was just being protective of her friend”

“It’s alright I shouldn’t have yelled back, that only made things worse and my name is Nightshade” he saw shaking a hoof with Fluttershy but he only nodded to Dash who just nodded as well

“I get the feeling she going to kill me”

“Still it's strange how he just showed up when they did” said the alicorn “Maybe I should check his mind to make sure”

At this point Nightshade jumped behind Applejack as stayed hidden as best he could as he pointed a hoof at her whilst his crimson eye glared at her

“If there is one thing I don’t want ponies’ doing it’s going into my mind thank you, goodbye” he warned as he saw her horn glow but didn’t feel any different

“Twi I don’t think that’s such a good idea and kind of uncalled for” warned Applejack but noticed Twilight’s horn glowing but doing nothing

“Hey why can’t I levitate you?” she said and at this point a lot of pain began to shoot through Nightshade’s head like a storm

“Holy mother of god make it stop!!!” he yelled as he clutched his head and felt the voices return

We see you...

You can’t hide...

You can’t hide... We see you...

You can’t hide...

You can’t hide...

We see you...

We see you...

We see you...

We see you...

“Shut up!” Nightshade shouted

“Twilight stop it now!” yelled Applejack as she helped Nightshade up as he shook

“Ok I don’t know anything about magic but I swear if you do that again you’re going to end up like the bots!” he warned as he shook his head and then began to shove his way past the rest “If you excuse me I want to get as far away from you guys as much as I can!”

“But all I tried to do was levitate him?” Twilight said with a puzzled expression

“Well you could have just taken his word Twi but no you just had to press forward!” shouted Applejack “I’m going to go find him you can figure out an apology”

“God damn ponies so this is what I get for helping out Yay me” Nightshade mumbled to himself as he left the hospital and began to walk back into the town but heard someone walking behind him

“Hey wait up Nightshade” called Applejack as she caught up beside him “I’m sorry about Twi she just didn’t think things through was all”

*Night's Perspective*

“Oh really what part was that? The part she tried to read my mind or the part where she gave me a migraine the size of the sun!” shouted Nightshade” But tell me how can I trust you? How can I trust anyone! They all accuse me and try breaking what little sense I have left… I can’t trust anyone…”

“Because I’m the Element of Honesty and whether you believe me or not I made a promise to you didn’t I?” she said as Nightshade’s enraged face calmed down

“(Sigh)…Sorry I just… I have the feeling I can’t trust anybody now but you and that yellow Pegasus” Nightshade said as he looked back and saw the rest

“Say you want to head back to the farm so you can rest up and fix things up tomorrow?” suggested Applejack with a smile

“Sure I think I need a rest after today” Nightshade said as he stretched his legs “So which way was it again?”

“This way you lone wanderer” she laughed as they began walking back to Sweet Apple Acres

“Oh come on give me a break it’s my first time here!” he complained as they walked into town

*Mane 5 perspective*

“How can AJ just trust him like that?!” complained Dash as she watched them leave “I mean come on he’s obviously behind the attack!”

“Oh but when I tackled him to the ground and began asking him everything about his favourite everything but he didn’t seem dangerous and besides my pinkie sense would have caught on!” said Pinkie as she put on the most serious/ unserious face ever “He never did say what his favourite color was…”

“Well still I hope he can forgive me I just wanted to ask him about why he was here I didn’t want to hurt him” said Twilight as she felt very guilty but still wondered why her spell worked like that

*Night's perspective*

By the time they got back it had become mid-day and the sun sadly was beaming down on them but as they got back and in the cool shade of the house Applejack lead Nightshade to the spare room which was medium sized, and housed a bed with a cabinet and on the other side of the room stood a window overlooking the pathway and another cabinet stood beside it.

“So this is your room so just do whatever you want and if you need anything you know where to find me” said Applejack as she was about to leave but then Nightshade asked

“Hey Applejack what’s this on my flank” as she turned she saw him looking at a symbol on his flank as it was symbol of a wolf

“Hey when’d you get your cutie mark because when you woke up you had no mark” she asked as she was puzzled by what it meant his talent was

“I don’t know I guess it just… happened and we didn’t notice but I wonder what it means?” he stood there wondering “Well in any case I’m sure I’ll find out”

“Ok then well holler if you need me” and with that she left Nightshade with his thoughts as he stood looking out the window towards the acres of land and sighed

“Why me, Why did I have to lose my memory, myself and what’s with these damn voices!?”

He then saw Applejack going out into the field and she began to buck the trees as the apples fell like rain

“She helped me…”

“Hey now don’t be getting your hopes up yet, you hear me, will get your memory back, Pinkie promise”

“But her Friends…”

“Maybe I should check his mind to make sure”

“Well I think you’re just a liar”

At this point Nightshade grew very angry but shook his head

“No their just looking out for their friends nothing else” he mumbled to himself and then walked over to the bed and laid down and just stared at the ceiling as he daydreamed then Applejack popped into his head and he instantly shot up as he blushed

“Ok bad brain, bad brain!” he said as he flopped down and closed his eyes as he drifted off into the dream world

Darkness… that was all he saw but Nightshade felt he wasn’t alone he felt someone or something watching him.

He then followed the slight change in the shadows as he knew something was there

“Show yourself!” he yelled then he instantly regretted that as two green eyes stared back at him like icicles piercing his soul

“Who are you? You are not from here!” echoed the female voice “Who are you?!”

“Hey you’re the one who entered my dream lady not the other way around” retorted Nightshade

“I shouldn’t have said that” he thought

“You don’t know what I can do in here!” boomed the voice

“Um yea I think I want out now” Nightshade said as he laughed nervously as he felt sweat trickle down his face

“For now but I warn you this is not the last you have seen of me!” yelled the voice as the darkness subsided

“Yea and I hope to never see you again to” mumbled
Nightshade

“Ok I guess I’m not safe even in my dreams…greaaat” he said sarcastically

“Just my night…”

Author's Note

So after getting some decent feedback I have now completed this chapter and I'm now going to move on to the next.

Oh and just to clear things up a bit. I do appreciate people pointing out 1 or 2 flaws but too many and I'll just have to delete the comment.