A Walking Nightmare

I shook my head as I watch my limp body get set back on the couch by an uneasy Twilight. I spent the past few minutes scolding myself for snapping at the farm pony. After my brief hatred I pulled up all the ponies that were in the treehouse currently. I saw Spike and Twilight, followed by the five other mares who I knew little to nothing about. In the waking the world the two sleeping mares were put in a bed and the others tried to bring them back to consciousness. I entered the yellow mares mind, seeing her greatest fears and most deepest wants. She feared attention, almost to a laughable state, but what she wanted most was for ponies to enjoy her singing talent. Fluttershy had hidden talent and let no pony know about. Except the cyan mare.

The cyan mare, Rainbow Dash, was a brash little thing. She fought changelings in her dreams, and hid away her darkest fears. I squirmed through her mind's locks and chains until I finally found it. Her fear. She was horrified of being a no body, she wanted everypony to know who she was and why she was the best, and her deepest desire was to join the Wonderbolts. Her fondest memory was pranking her friends with the pink mare, who's mane gave me a toothache by looking at it.

The pink mare's mind was filled with so much junk food, it rotted her mind, filling it with holes, making it fragile. She was broken, hiding behind a wall of happiness, which if broken leads to a shaky and dysfunctional mare, that fears everypony to a point that she wants to harm others. She wants more than anything else to be corrected, to be a normal functioning mare, that doesn't have to hide behind a false wall of emotions. I felt bad for the mare, she was destroyed, beyond any normal repair. She has reached out to Twilight and the white unicorn.

The white unicorn, Rarity, was one of the two that were reached by Pinkie, she was asked to repair Pinkie's fragile mind, but she did all she could and was turned to Twilight. Rarity hates not being able to help her friends and she fears that they would hate her over not being what she thinks they want, she wants them only to be happy. She and the farm pony have a mutual friendship, they can argue but they are also friends.

The orange farm mare worked on her farm, with her little sister, her big brother, and her grandmother. She was the main pony running the farm, while her sister attempted to retrieve her cutie mark, and her grandmother to old to do a lot of tiring work. She took up the reins of the farm after her parents died. Applejack, while truthful, feels lying to be a greater evil, one she will resort to of it means keeping her friends and family safe. She fears being brainwashed again like she once was with Discord, and never wants to lie to her friends again, and she wants her parents back, as she was young and didn't have a lot of time with them.

I threw myself out of their memories and watched them sleep. I materialized only Applejack's and Rainbow Dash mental states and fused their dreams together, then joined then myself. Inside I saw a white landscape, filled with small apples, from Applejack's subconscious, and changelings, from Dash's subconscious. I vaporized the apples and chamgelings, and brought Dash and Applejack to my own being. They saw me and immediately both were terrified of me. I calmed their minds, changing their emotions from fear to happiness.

"How did you knock us out without even touching us," Rainbow asked, her mind racing with the past events. "How can you do any of this?"

"I am a, what do you call it, a dream walker," I told them, receiving nods from both. "Well I can control your consciousness in the waking world, and I can reach into your deepest fears and greatest wants, I know everything about you and what your future holds, I control your subconsciousness here. I can make both of you fight each other to the death, and spawn millions of you so you have to fight yourselves.

"Bull, you don't know anything about me," Rainbow claimed. 'If you do, what is my greatest fear."

"You fear being considered a nobody, you want to be special. You want everypony to love you and admire you, and hate them when they don't," I told her, her expression turned sheepish when I released her secret. "But don't take my word for it, let them show you."

"What do you mean, them?" As she said this, I manipulated her surroundings and changed it into the treehouse, surrounded by her friends, all stating they hated her and disowned her. "No stop, please I didn't mean it!"

"Rainbow, what's wrong, who are you talking to," Applejack asked her friend, as Rainbow backed up against an imaginary wall, as she screamed at nothing. "What did you do to her?"

"I made her live her worst nightmare, being disowned by her friends," I told Applejack. She ran over to Rainbow and tried shaking her out of the nightmare. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"Rainbow come on, waking up or snap out of it," Applejack shook her friend who was crying and screaming at nothing. Applejack resorted to smacking Rainbow, inciting her kick instinct. Rainbow bucked Applejack in the face, sending her across the dream plane. Rainbow leaped in the air and crushed Applejack with all her might, while this was happening, I was peering into the real world. Rainbow was screaming in anger and fear and Applejack was squirming in pain. "Rainbow, it's me stop!"

"No, you'll keep insulting me!" Rainbow screamed at her as she choked the life out of Applejack. After awhile Applejack lied dead on the white floor, her eyes glazed over. Rainbow pulled herself off her, now dead friend, soon after she vanished and woke up in the waking world. 'What did I do?"

"You strangled Applejack,"I told her, she started breaking down crying and sobbing. "Okay, stop crying, now I think it's time for you to wake up."

Rainbow Dash bolted awake, tears streaming from her eyes. She ran over to Applejack and hugging and telling her she was sorry. I watched the scene and felt a sense of shame plunge over me, but I forced it aside. I knew how to make these ponies tick, and that was going to be fun.