Equestria Missing 2: Insanity's Nightmare

I woke up coughing and gasping for air. "I think I might have aqua-phobia after this is over." I stood up and looked around, I was back in the void. But not on the bridge, or next to the mirror, I looked up and saw that the bridge and forest was above me, I was a platform down from where I was last. I turned around and nearly jumped off of the ledge out of fright, there was a ball, with a smiley face poorly drawn on the front of it.

I looked at it in confusion, I simply disregarded it and kept walking, Then I heard something. "Take me with you..." I turned around quickly and looked around. "Wh-Who said that?" Nothing responded. "Jesus..." I turned back around and kept walking, I then heard it again. "Watch out!" When I heard that, I slipped on a gap. The ledge crumbled at my hooves rocks falling down into the abyss, I jumped back quickly, tripping back at the same time. "Take me with you... Please" I heard again, I turned my head to my right, the ball was next to me. I stood up and looked at the big gap in the middle of the ground, then back at the ball. "I can help..."It said softly. I looked up at the gap, It looked like I could jump it, though that was quite a stretch.

I looked back down at the ball. "Wh-what do you want me to do?" I asked slowly... Damn am I really asking a ball what to do? I waited, but it didn't respond. I sighed, took a few steps back and prepared for a run up. I ran toward the gap and jumped, I had barely made it, I pulled myself up from the ledge. Breathing a sigh of relief I started walking away from where I woke up.

Suddenly I felt a sense of loneliness, it was strange I felt more alone than I usually would be, I almost felt like crying. I stopped walking and looked ahead into the cloudy darkness, I turned around and looked towards the ball. I sighed and jumped back over the gap. "This better be worth it..." I said to myself and kicked the ball over the gap and jumped back over.

At least I felt safe... Safer. I Slowly kept walking, kicking the ball along with me. I walked for about 5 minutes before the ball spoke again. "What's your name?" I stopped walking letting the ball stop slightly ahead of me. "I-it's... Rainbow Flare... You're in my mind. Wouldn't you already know my name?" the ball just sat there, with that god damned smile. it then responded in a somewhat melancholic voice. "Well... It's not like that..." I looked down at him. "Wh-What do you mean 'it's not like that'?" he didn't say a word.

I stood there waiting for it to say a word, then I snapped "ANSWER ME GOD DAMN IT!" he didn't respond. I jolted up realising I had yelled at a ball. I cleared my throat out of embarrassment, although I didn't know why I would be embarrassed. Nobody was around... except for him...

I looked back down at the ball. and continued walking, after a while I was getting rather tired of walking, I felt like I would be in this 'Test' as I would put it, for quite some time... while I was walking everything in my vision started to fade into whiteness. Looking around at the whiteness I saw that there was knitting in patterns, nothing too remarkable but it seemed familiar...

After about a minute I bumped into something soft, I was too distracted to realise there was a wall, A white, padded wall. I looked around myself, I was in a room with a bed, toilet and sink. I remember this place... I was here for eight days after all... Ponyville asylum, I turned around and saw the door to my cell, I opened it into the hallway and then I walked to the foyer of the asylum. I didn't hear a peep other than the sound of my hoof-steps and the ball rolling, it was too quiet.

In the foyer there were three things on a table, each with a note on it. There was a bowl of water with the note 'Drink Up' put in front of it, a bowl of food with the note 'Eat Up' on it, and lastly a knife with the note 'Just End It Now' on it.

I'm Definitely not going for the knife, I don't wanna cause any more pain than what I've already been through. I looked at the water with desperate thirst, I hadn't had a drink in a while, and my throat was getting dry.

I ran for the water, and was about to take a drink when I heard the ball say something. "DON'T DRINK THAT!" I jumped and turned around. I looked down at him. "Why? I'm thirsty" I complained, He didn't respond... I sighed and turned around, I looked at the food instead, I went to eat when the ball stopped me again. "STOP!" I turned around quickly and yelled; "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT?!" I jolted up and cleared my throat out of embarrassment. "I am yelling... At a ball." I seemed to be in denial. after about ten seconds of silence he spoke once again. "Take the knife... And kill yourself." My eyes widened. I kicked the ball away from me and hid behind a table that was knocked over.

This is fucked up... I want to go home. I peeked around the table and looked at him, just sitting there, with that malicious look on his face... I blinked and my sane side kicked in. "Flare... What are you doing to yourself" I said to myself. "You are worrying about an object. Just take a drink, eat some food, and leave it behind." I felt like he was listening, wait no... it can't be listening it's a ball for gods sake.

I got up, like an animal slowly getting out of it's cave to go for that little piece of food you put on the ground. I went over to the water and took a drink. Sweet water, I may have drowned but I need some source of hydration. and the food, it was different, it was red. Tender. and warm... It tasted quite nice... What is this? "It's meat..." Right when the ball said that, my eyes opened wide again. I spat out the meat, I felt sick. I couldn't hold it in, I lost it, I vomited on the floor.

I blamed him; "You. Y-YOU FUCKED UP PIECE OF SHIT! This is your fault... I Fucking hate you..." I was still coughing from the once good tasting now gone foul taste in my mouth. What did I eat? What animal? That's it... I'm leaving him... It behind.

I Headed toward the exit door quickly without a second thought. I opened the door into the night air of ponyville... at least I was in a familiar place, I took one step out when I heard the ball speak once again. "Take me with you. You worthless piece of shit." I turned around and looked at it. I shook my head and turned back around, I jumped back in surprise... It was me.

It was me no doubt, an ear was torn off, the wings were broken, the eyes were bleeding. It was everything I was... He spoke. "You're going to take him with you" He looked angry. "You're going to listen to everything he has to say" He lifted up a hoof and I felt myself being lifted up by the neck, I was being choked by this unrelenting force. "Y-You're... N-n-Not... R-real..."  My vision was fading. I couldn't breathe. Stop. Please... I was suddenly thrown back into the asylum, when I landed I sent the knife on the table flying into the air, it then started descending toward my head fast. I realised this was it, I decided to just lay there as I met my fate.

I closed my eyes, and I heard a thud. I was surprised when I opened my eyes, I looked to my right and saw that the knife had barely just missed me. I breathed a sigh of relief and stood back up. The ball was in place of my mirror self... That fucking ball... I got up, shaking with fear. I Looked toward the entrance to the asylum, I need to get away from him... I stood there, like I was in a standoff with that ball. After about a minute I charged toward the door, I ran out and away from the asylum, and started to head for Fluttershy's house.

I found myself running, I was scared. I need someone... Someone I know... Fluttershy. Please... It had started raining halfway to Fluttershy's house. Thundering, Hailing. I saw Fluttershy's cottage as I was being pelted by the small stones of ice, It felt like an eternity, it felt like her house was receding away from me.

Finally after what felt like hours I finally reached the door. I Immediately started banging on the door. "FLUTTERSHY! HELP! PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR!" My constant banging finally got a response, she opened the door slowly. I Looked at her in shock, she looked extremely depressed, yet angry at the same time... "What do you want?" She asked with hatred in her voice. "F-Fluttershy.. what's wrong are you okay?" I asked rather cautiously. "Am I a joke to you?" What? Why does she think that? why does she sound so angry? "Um... no... Why would I think that?" I asked slowly and calmly, she then responded with something that I wouldn't expect out of her...

"WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT? YOU FUCKING MORON! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO DIVORCED ME A WEEK AFTER OUR WEDDING JUST SO YOU COULD GO OUT WITH OCTAVIA!" I Jumped back in surprise. "Wait. What!? No I never-"

"to think you have the guts to even show your face here is amazing. Just go." I got down in a prone position begging for mercy. "Please Fluttershy. You don't understand. He's after me and if you don't let me in right now, he's going to kill me. PLEASE! Let me in!" she turned her head and started to walk back indoors. "Well. Good riddance..." She slammed the door behind her.

I put my head on the ground and sobbed. My muzzle had started to bleed, I was hearing the voices again. I jumped up and looked around. "Wh-Who's there?" I called out, the voices were getting louder... Closer. I could make out some of them. "We're going to kill you... and we'll dance around your rotten corpse." I got very uncomfortable. I turned around and started banging on Fluttershy's door. "Please.. Fluttershy.... PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR! LET ME IN... PLEASE!" I turned around, the ball was there with an angry look rather than a smile.

"I Warned you... But you didn't listen... I tried to help... but you didn't want it... I Told you to end it... but you didn't have the guts to." It then started to scream a blood-curdling cry. My ears felt like they were about to give out. I turned around and started banging on the door again. "PLEASE...! Help me...." I Turned around again. My mirror self was there, staring at me. He lifted his hoof and picked me up by the neck again, with that relentless force.

He didn't hold back this time, he was twice as strong. "F-Flutters-shy... I-I'm sorry... W-Whatever I did I'm sorry.." He twisted his hoof, and I felt a snap, then I couldn't feel anything. I dropped on the ground, my vision fading ever so slightly. "Come on... Let's move him... He'll like what I have planned" The ball said, Right before my mirror self dragged me away.

My Vision then went black...