Equestria Missing 2: Insanity's Nightmare

by MayaTheBee

Rating: mature
Tags: Gore, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Dark
Length: 10529

Flare has found himself in a nightmare in which he can't wake up. Piece by piece, he realises his sanity is slowly deteriorating.

Following up from the last story, Flare has found himself in a nightmare in which he can't wake up. Piece by piece, he realises his sanity is slowly deteriorating. And what he finds out is a lot more frightening than what he has experienced.

Published 2013-09-09 03:40:03 UTC
Last updated 2013-09-09 03:40:03 UTC

Chapter 1: An Insomniac's Nightmare

*Psst* If you haven't already. I highly recommend reading the last one first. It'll make things make more sense: Equestria Missing

When we got back, we had lunch. It was simple; Apples, Hay, Daisy Sandwich. I ate it all, and with a sudden sense of tiredness, I went up to our bedroom. and went to sleep.

I Had a very vivid dream. you know when sometimes you have those dreams and they feel so real, you're afraid you won't wake up. that's what this felt like, I couldn't make sense of any of it, it was... Strange and at the same time realistic, the strange thing was... I Couldn't wake up.

"He-Hello?" I Called out, into the abyss. "Anyone?" from my perspective, it appeared I was on a cliff edge. Looking over the edge, I saw that I was on a floating platform, looking down I saw something like a void, with some more floating platforms.

I turned around to see a reflection of myself, nothing seemed wrong. I touched the mirror that was showing my reflection, it wasn't solid but it definitely felt like I could kill myself by going into it, but I had nowhere else to go. "Here goes nothing" Slowly, I Pushed myself through the thick Liquid-like substance.

I woke up in Fluttershy's cottage. "Well, this seems fine" I got up and stretched my arms out, I put my feet on the floor, I placed my hands on my face and rubbed my eyes. Wait...

I stood up abruptly and ran for the stairs, running on two legs felt weird, but familiar at the same time, Fluttershy was having her breakfast... As a human. I ran up to her and quickly spoke.

"QUICK! Slap me in the face!" she looked at me strangely, as if I just saw a ghost. "Now why do you want me to do that?" she replied in a confused voice. I turned around and put my hands in my face "It must be Thursday. I always hated Thursday's" I said to myself in a worried voice.

I turned back around and Fluttershy put her hand on my forehead. "What are you doing?" I asked, she responded shortly after. "Well you don't have a fever that's for sure" Confused, I stepped back a few steps

and ran for the mirror.

Fluttershy followed and kept questioning me "Are you okay? What's wrong?" I starred at myself in the mirror I was Tall and thin. My Mane... Hair, was the same colour as my pony self. Red, Blue and Dark Grey. I still had wings, so did Fluttershy, she had to be maybe an inch smaller than me. I started freaking out, I wasn't used to this.

"Um. are you okay sweetie?" She asked cautiously. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" When I asked the question, she jumped back in surprise, Quickly, I realized what I had done and started apologizing "I'm sorry, why did I do that? I'm sorry" Suddenly my vision started fading, I Stumbled a little and I fell into the mirror, Which comforted me as well as making me disturbed at the same time.

I fell back out of the mirror in which I entered the human universe, I was back in the void. I stood up and was back on all-fours again, when I touched the mirror, I Heard a voice saying; "Ready to go again?" And was all of a sudden sucked back into the mirror.

I Woke up in the bed again, but this time I woke up violently, Causing me to fall onto the floor, I got up on my feet and ran to the mirror again. My eyes, they were Black again. Not bleeding, Just plain black.

"Fl-Fluttershy?" I Turned around and ran down the stairs. She was eating her breakfast again. I ran up and hugged her, I was scared.

"Woah! Wh-Whats wrong?" She asked quickly, I Responded, almost crying "Whats happening? Tell me!" After a while she responded, only it didn't sound like her, She said; "This isn't reality" I Stood up, and saw that instead of Fluttershy there was a Mannequin in the clothes Fluttershy was wearing. I turned around and saw another mannequin. The voice kept repeating the phrase: "This isn't reality", It was driving me to paranoia.

I felt a trickle down my right eye, and wiped it and looked at my hand... "Blood... Typical" I walked to the mirror, and tried to go into it. It was solid.

"Are you kidding me?" I grumbled to myself. Getting pissed, I threw the nearest object I could find at the thing that would've lead me back to my world. The voice was getting louder, I Decided to go to Twilight's house and see if I could find an answer to all of this.

I found myself running toward her library, quickly without knocking I entered her house and called out.

"TWILIGHT!" I heard her foot-steps coming down the stairs, Spike then slowly followed.

"Flare. What the hell? you just woke me up from my nap"

"Spike! Language!" Twilight Said Almost Interrupting him "What is it Flare? Are you okay?" Twilight asked frantically, for some reason she didn't acknowledge my bleeding eyes.

"I went to bed last night as a pony but then I woke up in a void of some sort then I fell into a mirror and now I am a human. Please help" I stopped to catch my breath after that quick speech.

she starred at me for a couple of seconds, and then dragged me inside. "H-hey! Not so hard" She Plopped me on the couch and started questioning me. "Do you Have any symptoms? What colour is your hair? What's your wife's name?" I asked her to slow down, as I couldn't answer that quickly.

"Okay, I'll go slower... Do you have any symptoms?" She asked slowly, I responded with almost a yell. "I don't know. Maybe the bleeding black voids in my FACE!" She looked at me with a confused face. "What bleeding black voids?" I sat in shock.

She just saw me as a normal human being? I stood up quickly and said "Slap me in the face." She looked at me with a sheepish look "Now why do you want me to do that?" she asked, I repeated again in a stern voice.

"Just slap me in the face ple-" I was cut off when Twilight quickly slapped me in the face. "Ow... Thanks" There was an awkward silence, we just stood there, and then Spike broke the silence. "Hey Flare. I'm gonna make a sandwich. Want one?" I shook my head and started heading for the door.

"F-Flare, I'm Sorry!" Twilight Apologised, But I kept my cool "It's fine... I guess I'll just have to figure this out myself" I was about to leave when Twilight stopped me.

"Hold on, did you say you went to sleep as a pony last night?" I nodded and asked why she wanted to know that. Out of nowhere I saw her reaching for a book in her library.

"Got it! Here you go" She handed me a book with the title 'Dreams and Nightmares' On the Front cover. "Uh... Thanks" I grabbed the booked and started flicking through it.

"Hopefully it helps. I swear I've had the same thing once before" Said Twilight with a smirk on her face, I think she was being sarcastic. After a bit of flicking through, I couldn't find anything on a pony turning into a human, I felt tired and weak. One last time I heard the voice say really loudly;

"THIS ISN'T REALITY!" And I fell to the ground.

When I came to, I was myself again... A pony. "Urgh. Thank god" I stood up and saw that instead of  the Void I was in last time, I was in a room, it wasn't so dark that I couldn't see, But it was pretty dark.

I felt around for a wall and eventually found one, I followed along the wall until I found a door, without thinking I quickly opened it and went through, I suddenly found myself falling, I tried my wings but when I looked at them, they were broken off, kind of like when you try to saw through a thin piece of wood and then end up snapping it halfway through. So I couldn't fly to protect myself from the fall.

After falling for about thirty seconds I saw something black, which I suspected was the ground. I Braced myself for impact but then I landed with a fluff on a cloud, the cloud was the black thing I saw.

Still shaking, I looked around for an exit or an opening of some kind. After scanning the room for a bit I found a door, it looked similar to Twilight's front door, I went through it hoping for the best, and saw that I was standing in my old house in Cloudsdale.

I say its my old house because I mostly live with Fluttershy now, I still owned it but I have been thinking on selling it, I walked around the bedroom I was standing in, after some scanning I found the cradle from when I was a little foal.

I was in my foster parents home, they handed it down to me when I was old enough to take care of myself. All this stuff from my childhood made me want to cry, I missed them too much.

Both my real parents and my foster parents, they were really nice, I went to my foster parents room, I looked at the bed and they were there. "Flare? Are you okay?" My mother asked, as if I was about a year old again. With a little pause, I started crying and ran to hug her, "Hey, hey, hey. What's wrong?" She asked as she rubbed my back to console me.

I replied shortly after. "I-I don't want this to happen anymore" My voice sounded different... Younger.

"Come on Flare, it's okay, lets get you back to bed" Suddenly I felt myself being lifted up. I barely took notice at first, I was too depressed. Eventually I found myself being laid down.

"There you go" She handed me the doll I had owned when I was a year old, it was a brown bear with a missing eye. I named it Ted, I know it's stereotypical but I was a year old so don't blame me. My mum started to softly sing 'Hush now Quiet now' and my eyes started to close slowly until I fell asleep.

I woke up on the floor of my house, right where my mother put me to bed the night before. I sat up and looked around, I was in my bedroom from when I was six, then my mum came in.

"Why are you on the floor Flare?" She giggled as I slowly stood up. "Anyway, come on it's time for school" she said in a happy voice. "Mum. I..." I stopped after hearing my voice. Again, it was younger than my normal voice.

"Yes?" She replied in a questioning voice. "I... Um.." I was trying to come up with an excuse as to why I shouldn't go to school. "I'm sick" I Imitated a few coughs, and she came over to me and put her hoof on my forehead. "You don't feel that sick to me" she said with that 'are you kidding?' voice. "Come on you have to go to school" Before I knew it I was headed out the door.

When I arrived at school, I had a sudden burst of nostalgia, I remembered the playground I broke my front-left hoof on, the lunch area where I gave Fluttershy a card for hearts and hooves day... Everyone mocked me for it, they said that I would never get a mare like Fluttershy, I'd like to rub it in their faces at my wedding.

I snickered and headed toward the playground, until I was stopped by Fluttershy, we bumped into each other. "Oh. My goodness, Are you okay?" she asked in an apologetic voice, I stood in awe I remembered this too, we both had lunch together. I had Tomato Soup with cheese, and Fluttershy had a Garden salad. I remember the date too, it was the tenth of July 1997.

"Flare? A-Are you all right?" She asked, I had spaced out for the past couple of seconds reminding myself of the past. "Oh? Yeah I'm good" I smiled and continued walking. "B-But Flare! Class is this way" I didn't hear her, she was quieter when she was young.

I kept walking confused as to where I was at, That's when one of the bullies at my school stopped me. "Where you going kid?" He asked with that look that bullies give you.

"What's it to you?" I replied in a slightly worried voice, his name was Thunder Bolt, he was the 'main bully' at school, "What's it to me? What about the fact that you're a useless piece of shit that doesn't know where he is going." He said back to me acting all tough. Quickly, Without thinking I replied.

"YOU'RE A USELESS PIECE OF SHIT!" After finishing my sentence I quickly realised what I did, and took a few steps back.

"What did you say?" He asked in an angry voice, he stepped toward me and I stepped back in fear. "Nobody Calls me useless" When he finished talking, he hit me in the face. I yelled in pain just as he kicked me to the ground, seemingly out of nowhere he pulled a knife from his bag and put a long deep cut on my leg, I screamed as he was slowly pulling the knife through my muscle toward himself.

Suddenly I heard someone in the distance, It was a teacher "THUNDER! Stop that!" He quickly realised what was happening and hid the knife in his bag. The teacher was heading over toward us, I quickly got up and fled. "W-Wait! Flare!" The teacher called out to me. I ignored her and kept limping I just wanted to get away from the kid.

Losing blood quickly, I eventually felt light-headed, I got to the classroom door, I tried to knock but I was too weak. "H-Help m-me" I peeped out slowly, and then I blacked out.

Chapter 2: Insanity Crawls Back

When I came to, I was back in the void. but this time it seemed different, I looked around, and eventually found that I was on a makeshift bridge of sort, the mirror was nowhere in sight.

I looked around further. Still nothing. In fact, i think i'm probably lost. I went along the bridge, along a path through a forest and suddenly arrived at a cliff edge. Being here reminded me of the everfree forest, but it didn't look like it. I turned around and was met with Fluttershy, but her eyes were blacked out and bleeding too.

"F-Fluttershy? W-what happened?" I asked franticly, worried about her safety. She just simply said: "This Isn't Reality" And then trotted off into the darkness, I called out to her but I heard no response, it seems that this one particular line means something to me. I am in a dream, maybe it's just reminding me I'm asleep, no can't be, that's just stupid. I wanted to find her and see if I could communicate more, so I ran in the direction she headed.

Running through the darkness was a dumb idea, I eventually got lost and had no idea where I was, sooner or later I ended up back where I was at the cliff edge, I tried again and ended back up here, I tried again and again. Still pitch black, still same place. Once more, I tried but I overshot my stop and fell off the cliff edge, I fell for at least seven seconds before landing. When I did land, I heard a muffled crack and felt a sharp pain in my chest, I probably broke a bone. I heard a voice from a distance but I couldn't see anyone. "Flare! Are you okay? Wake up... WAKE UP!" I felt a tap on my left fore-leg, a really soft tap. It was probably Fluttershy in the over-world. Wait... I acknowledged pain when I landed, shouldn't I be awake now? I stood up with a struggle, my legs were shaking from shock, I saw something in the distance. Another pony.

I Coughed as I tried to call out to the unknown Mare... or Stallion.. Who the hell is that? "H-h-Hey!" I Grabbed my rib in pain as I moved closer to the shadow, I noticed a hood on the pony... Hm. A hooded pony? That rung a bell in my head for some reason, Hooded Pony... Hmm... I snapped back into focus and started following the hooded shadow.

As I was Walking Through the dense forest, I felt that it seemed.... Familiar in a way. The hooded shadow suddenly stopped and looked over its shoulder, and looked at me.

I felt like I was in a trance, I couldn't take my eyes off of the other pony's. the pony walked up to me. and removed the hood. "PRINCESS LUNA?!" I Yelled as I snapped out of the trance. "Shh, shh, shh. follow me," she said softly. I did as she asked and we eventually ended up at a campsite, where I saw a simple camp-fire, a tent and saddlepack...

"Wh-Where are we?" I asked Cautiously "it's your dream... isn't it?" Luna answered with another question. "well you are in my mind... so yes I guess it is my dr-" "Wrong." I turned to Luna. "This isn't reality Flare." There's those words again "it's your nightmare" well I knew that, but why was she here? "and it's all my fault" Why does she think that? Luna is confusing me... "wh-why do you think that?" I asked cautiously, I didn't know what to expect, why did she think that my nightmare was her fault? only one way to find out I guess.

"Flare, maybe you remember a 'Hooded Pony' being mentioned to you by the doctors at the asylum" That? I never thought it was important... "Well yes. What about it?" I asked. Luna quietly responded. "That was me. I gave them the syringe." I walked up beside her. "Why are you worrying your head about it, it's no big dea-"

"IT IS A BIG DEAL! You're still insane thanks to me." I jumped back when she yelled at me. "It's okay princess... I forgive you, now how do I get out of this?" I asked with a sliver of hope "I can't tell you that... he'll get me." I tilted my head. "W-Who will get you?" Luna jumped up suddenly and looked around franticly. "Um... Your highness are you oka-"

"He's coming, I have to go." she started packing up her saddlebag as quickly as possible. "Wha-? Who's coming? What do you mean?" I started looking around in a panic. "You'll see." I turned back to Luna to see her just evaporate into nothing, I was once again alone.

Son of a bitch. I continued looking around the dense forest, looking for the 'He' Luna was talking about. I was hearing whispers of wind and snaps of twigs. I was getting paranoid, too paranoid I started running away from the campsite. Branches and leaves swiping at my face as I ran blindly through the darkness once again, I felt something rip at my left ear, but I ignored it, it was the least of my worries.

The sounds were getting louder and closer. I eventually hit a dead end, by this time my eyes had somewhat adjusted to the darkness, I turned around and a very dark shadow that seemed to look like another pony faced me. It sounded like it was whispering to me. but I couldn't understand it.

"Um... Hello?" The figure just stood there. And made a sound, somewhat like a growl. I stood there looking at it for a couple of minutes waiting for it to make a move, I took a step back but hit a wall, that's what sent it at me. It flew toward me fast, I attempted to protect myself from it but that didn't work, the dark shadow went through me with a push causing me to hit the back wall and fall down.

I coughed heavily, I struggled as I stood up. "Ugh. what the hell was that?" Something was wrong. I could hear a voice. "H-Hello? Anyone?" The voice didn't respond but it was still there, I began feeling light-headed. "Ugh wh-what the.." I felt something trickle down my left ear. I turned around, and faced a door. "well. I got nowhere else to go" I opened the door and found myself in a bathroom of some sort, it was a pretty dirty bathroom, dust covered the mirror, and the bath itself was really mouldy and messy, I went up to the mirror, plugged the sink and started to fill it with water. I looked at myself in the mirror My left ear had ripped halfway off causing me to cringe at the sight, I took a deep breath and raised my front right leg to my mouth "I don't want my ear getting infected" I bit down on my leg and started to lean on the sink.

"Here goes nothing" I raised my front left hoof to my ear, and started to pull. The pain was excruciating, I bit down harder on my leg as I tore my ear slowly away from my body. I moaned as I lost strength from blood-loss, I yanked one last time and the last of my ear ripped off. "Fff-agh. God damn." I got up slowly and looked around, I saw a pipe near the bath. I went up to it and looked at it, there was a temperature warning on it. "W-well. I better stop the bleeding" I put my hooves on the wall to keep my balance, I took a deep breath, I started to lean into the boiler pipe.

Suddenly, before I even got a chance to put my ear on the boiler I started hearing the voices again. "do it.... do it.... do it..." I looked behind myself, nothing was there, needless to say I was scared half to death, I heard the voice again. "DO IT" I jumped and put my ear on the pipe. I heard the sizzle of my flesh as I bared through the pain, of course it hurt like hell but I still soldiered on. Having nothing to bite down on I decided to hold my breath through the pain. After holding my ear against the pipe for about five seconds I pushed away from the pipe and breathed. I was shaking from pain and blood loss. I fell down on the ground and laid there for a few minutes. I needed to catch a break. I started coughing a lot, I coughed so much that I threw up. "Ugh... God." I got back up and went to the sink, I turned off the water and washed away the blood from my mane.

I felt dizzy, probably from blood loss, or maybe it was from holding my breath, I don't know. I stumbled a little bit, I then fell forward and hit my head on the sink causing me to black out. when I came to water flooded my eyes, I got up immediately and looked around for what caused this pool of water, I saw that the sink was bursting with water from the pipe, my eyes opened wide as I heard the voices again "You're going to drown." They said, I ran over to the sink in a panic, I turned the tap handle to turn off the water, tap broke off. I turned around the door was no longer there, I sat down in silence and shock as I waited for the water to rise. "Heh... What a way to go..." I snickered to myself, at least I kept a good mood about it, at least I'll leave this insane nightmare.

about two hours had passed and the water had nearly reached the roof, I was floating at the roof, wasting energy, keeping as much air as I can. "W-well.... Looks like this is it...." I sniffled and closed my eyes, as the water fully submerged me, I started to drown. I couldn't breathe, it hurts, I need air. No... I'm sorry...

Chapter 3: Descending

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...

Chapter 4: Dying Insanity

"Leave him here... this will be good"

I woke up, my neck aching like hell. I immediately froze in place once I saw where I was... I was surrounded by sharp, spiked rocks. There was a small opening, which looked like it could only be reached by crawling. But even then I could cut myself on the rocks, I looked around for another opening, but there was no other way out. "I'm getting sick of this shit..." I started crawling toward the opening, sharp rocks were threatening cuts to my chest as I crawled along the spiky ground, the pain eventually became too much to handle, I rested my body down to relieve some pain.

after about a minute I continued crawling. "Stupid, fucking ball. I'm going to murder him..." I grumbled to myself, I had closed my eyes to bear though the pain at this point, not knowing where I was going was much worse, without realising I ran into one of the spikes along the way, giving me a long cut on the neck. I made a muffled growl in pain, but I kept crawling, just so I could get out of there, I can care about pain once I'm out of danger.

Eventually, I had made it out of the spiked trench. I put my hoof to the cut on my neck, it stung the moment I touched it. "Gargh! Shit.... he'll pay for this..." My insane side said to myself. I shook my head in confusion. "Flare! you are a sane pegasus. That ball is not a 'he'!" I said to myself with slight worry for my sanity.

I had started hearing whispers in my head again. Shit... I have to accept it... "He is going to take me... NO! I CAN'T! That thing is not a 'he' I can't let him take my sanity... IT! GOD DAMN IT!" I had started feeling light headed, possibly from blood loss. I laid down to rest a little, I looked off into the distance, I saw a piece of cloth. I could bandage my wound with it.

I struggled to get up. But I did, I walked over to the cloth, it looked long enough to wrap around my neck. So I did just that, I wrapped it around my neck and tightened it enough to not have myself choking, but still able to apply pressure to the wound. I sat down and let blood come back to my head. I stood up feeling depressed.

"D-Did I really divorce Fluttershy?... N-NO! This is a nightmare. And it's just going out of it's way to make my life a misery...!" I took a deep breath. 'I better head off', I thought to myself, I then started to head away from the trench in which I woke up.

I after about an hours walk, I had reached a cliff edge over looking Ponyville. It was an okay view for a nightmare, I inspected closer and saw someone... Someone familiar... How could I say that? Her pink coat was a no brainer. "Why Pinkie Pie?" I said to myself with confusion, as I started to slide down the slope of the cliff side, and begun to follow her.

After a while we had reached Sugarcube Corner, she looked around as if she was being watched. She looked over in my direction. "HI FLARE!" She yelled out to me, with a somewhat sinister voice. "Come on in! I need some help getting some ingredients out of the freezer." For some reason something drove me to go give her some help, I had started to walk in. "Right this way!" She said with that perky yet still sinister voice.

Walking through into the kitchen, I saw the big steel door that was the freezer. "You go ahead Flare, I need to go get some other ingredients ready..." I was skeptical, I slowly took little filly steps toward the door. "Any time today Flare." I heard Pinkie say, as if she wanted me to get into the freezer. "The cake mix is at the very back, behind the box of melt-in-your-mouth sprinkles." That was an odd name for sprinkles...

I opened the freezer. A very cold rush of air came out of the freezer, giving me a shiver in the process. I took a deep breath and stepped in. I headed to the back of the freezer and started looking on the shelves, then I suddenly heard a smash and a metallic snap. I turned around quickly to see Pinkie Pie shut the door to the freezer locking it in the process, I had realised it had gotten colder, I looked at the thermostat and saw that she had broken it making it below average temperature for the freezer. "S-Shit!" I shivered and turned to the door looking for the emergency release hatch.

"Looking for something..." I heard Pinkie chuckle. "W-WHERE'S THE HATCH!" I yelled to her. She responded sinisterly: "Oh. Nowhere in particular." I then heard a metal twang behind her... She broke the hatch off...

"LET ME OUT!" I screamed to her through the thick steel door. "Wow Flare. I'm surprised Fluttershy even married you... You've got quite the mouth on you..." She said as if to offend me. "But, that shouldn't matter. You seem to be a nice stallion."

"FUCK YOU!" There was a short pause before she responded. "I take that back... Nopony deserves a guy like you, you're just too much of a meanie" I stood back and ran at the door in an attempt to bust it down. "That won't do you any good..." She snickered.

"You know, I don't know why you hate that ball. He is actually a really cool guy... Just like you... Get it? Cause you're in a freezer." She then burst out laughing. "Hey, Flare! You know what you should do? If you survive this. You should make a game based on this experience, it should be called: 'Insanity's Nightmare' and it should use the Frostbite engine... Get it?" there was then a pause, I think she wanted me to respond. "Is it because I'm in a freezer?" I asked with a grunt. "EXACTLY!" She yelled. I put my face onto the ground in unamusment. "OR! You could use the Unreal engine. I mean this experience is pretty unreal" I could just picture the enormous grin on her face.

"Or maybe you should use Unity. It's far more simple than the other two, we're also gaining a unity of friendship here." I had, had enough of her stupid video game puns.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP PINKIE AND LET ME OUT!" I yelled out of frustration. "Only if you say please." She said to me like I was a foal. I breathed to calm down...

"Would you kindly, please let me out..." I said in the calmest way possible. "Also if you give your sanity over to the ball." WHAT!? Where did that come from? "NO PINKIE! I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE MYSELF OVER TO THAT THING!"

"Well, it looks like you're going to freeze to death..." She said nonchalantly, I sat down and prepared for the next few hours.

An hour had past, I couldn't feel my wings. I looked down at them, they had frozen over at the cuts.

I then heard Pinkie say something rather impatiently, "You know, you could just give yourself over to him now... It would be so much easier."

I immediately responded. "N-NO! I-I'd rather die of hypothermia first!" I said with a sniff, I had begun to get sick. "HAH! That could easily be arranged!" She said with a somewhat evil laugh. "What do you want with me Pinkie?" I asked cautiously.

"What do I want with you? Well... To be honest. I wanted to have some fun..." Wait WHAT? This was her idea of fun?

"When that 'Friend' of yours came up to me and asked me to kill you, well I couldn't be any happier. There's something about torturing ponies that's just... Fascinating." my eyes opened wide. "For instance, remember when I gutted you in the asylum? I made Rainbow Dash hang herself." She said with that sinister voice again.

"N-NO! TAKE THAT BACK! YOU WHORE!" I yelled with hatred in my voice. "And Fluttershy... Haha. Fluttershy, I made sure she had a slow and painful death."

"NO! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! I-I STABBED MYSELF! The doctors said so..." I said quickly. "Well. That's what you think... I did gut you. And boy was I angry when I found out you survived..." I couldn't take it anymore I got up and had a look around. "There's got to be a way out of here." I said to myself with hope.

Looking around I saw a bunch of boxes with labels of ingredients, and some tanks of liquid nitrogen. "I suppose that's for the ice-cream they make." I noted, I looked up and saw a vent where the air was being circulated from, the fan blades were spinning faster than normal. "Maybe I could jam them and crawl through the vent." Now that's an idea... A dangerous one but an idea nonetheless.

"Knock, knock? Flare? Did you die already? I'm surprised, it's always the stallions who die the quickest..."

I looked to the nitrogen tanks and saw one of the valves were broken off. I picked it up immediately and threw it at the fan, I got caught straight away and broke the fan allowing me freedom to climb up into the vent. "H-Hey! What's going on back there?!" I heard Pinkie yell, I also heard a rattling of keys. "I'm coming in there. This better not be a diversion... Your auntie Pinkie knows when someone is creating diversions."

I crawled into the vent and moved quickly. I heard the door open. "I'M 2 YEARS OLDER THAN YOU, BITCH!" I bragged as I immediately continued crawling.

"FLARE! COME BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" I heard Pinkie demand. "COME BACK NOW AND I WILL ONLY KILL YOU SLOWLY!" Hearing that caused me to start crawling faster. The darkness was very disorientating. "FLARE! I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD!" She screamed I looked behind me and didn't see anyone, when I was looking behind myself I didn't realise there was a drop, I fell for a few seconds before landing with a heavy thud on the ground

I looked up and saw a door, I sighed and got up. Shaking and coughing, I then headed to the door. "Here goes nothing." I said to myself, and then I turned the handle.

I Entered through the door, shivering like crazy trying to get some body heat back. Into an empty room with nothing but a table and a box. I closed the door behind me and went up to the box, when I opened it there was a note, I lifted up the note there was a knife placed underneath it. The note read "ARE YOU READY TO WAKE UP?". I think I knew what it meant but, will it kill me in the real world, I broke a rib. No I don't want to go through with this.

I walked back to the door and tried to open it but it was locked... I was locked in.... "C-crap". It seemed that I had no other choice, I walked up to the box, picked up the knife and thought for a minute... "W-what will happen? Argh! What will happen? Why is my mind putting me through this? Will I die in the real worl- I don't know..." I gasped on the verge of tears.

"P-P-Please I don't want to, NO I don't want to" The voice was burning in my head 'DO IT! DO IT!'  "N-No I don't want to No..." 'DO IT!'. Knowing that I had no other choice... I put the knife to my neck. And cried "I-I-I'm sorry Fluttershy...."

Epilouge: Waking Up

I woke up with the sun in my eyes; I shielded my eyes and sat up slowly. I looked around, I was back in Fluttershy's cottage, it was quiet, I felt around on my chest for the broken rib... nothing, I then felt at my ear... nothing.... I was fine. I breathed a sigh of relief as I got out of the bed and headed toward the window, I looked out at Ponyville, nobody was around. "Oh shit.... here we go again..." I said to myself as I started to hurry down the stairs. Going down the stairs felt like forever, what would I see at the bottom? I could hear other ponies talking in the kitchen, a mare and a stallion; maybe it’s just the voices again? I don't know, my mind is fucked, I could still be in my nightmare for all I know.

"Huh? Who's there?" I heard the stallion call out, I froze in place. I made not a sound. "F-Flare? I-is that you?" I heard the mare call out, is that.... Fluttershy? "I'll go check on him". Oh crap, I started heading back upstairs as fast as I could but the hoof steps of the one following me were growing louder and louder, I got to the top of the staircase right before I heard a familiar voice. Not Fluttershy's but... a familiar voice...

"Flare? You're awake!?" I know that voice... I turned around slowly... "Golden Compass?" I saw my old friend standing at the bottom of the staircase. "Heh. You look like crap" Golden Compass snickered, jeez way to greet an old friend… I turned to my right where a wall mirror sat, well he was right, I did look like crap. My mane was a mess and I had black rings around my eyes. But at least I was back to normal. Mane, eyes, colour... I was... fine.

"Yea... You are". I turned back to Golden Compass. "Ar-....Are you real?" I asked cautiously. "I'm real enough... Come on down, we need to talk" Golden Compass headed back toward the kitchen, and I slowly followed. "Hey GC, what's going on? Why are you..." I stopped halfway through my sentence as I neared the kitchen; there Fluttershy was, making lunch for herself and GC. She also had a third bowl, an empty one. GC leaned in closer to me and whispered; "She didn't take you being in that coma of yours very well". Coma? What the hell did he mean? "So how's he doi-" Fluttershy stopped as she turned towards me.

We stood there in silence for about a minute, she not knowing how to respond to me being awake after whatever amount of time I've been out. I leaned closer and whispered to GC. "Hey, um... How long was I out exactly?" I asked slowly, he looked back at me with a confused look, as if I was aware of how long I was out. "You've been out for a month" I looked back at Fluttershy with an apologetic look on my face, I don’t know why I would feel apologetic but I definitely felt that way.

“I'm sorry Fluttershy”  She looked back at me with a tear in her eye, just before cracking a small smile and running to hug me. “WOAH! Oh, okay um…” I was at a loss for words; I looked over at GC he was laughing like crazy at my reaction. “I'm just glad you’re finally awake” she hugged me tighter, and I hugged back, I was glad I was out of that hell.

During lunch we started talking about this whole event, GC was at the end of the table apologizing over and over again, saying it was his fault. “It’s all my fault, I should never have said yes.” I was wondering why he went from happy to apologetic in a snap; I cleared my throat before speaking, which caught his attention. “Um… GC, why are you so…. Apologetic?” After my sentence he did something that I never knew he could do. He changed into Fluttershy… and then into Rainbow Dash “Don’t you remember?” It made me jump back in surprise.

“What the!? GC, Wha-“

“I’m a Changeling remember?” He kept changing forms in front of me. “But instead of love, I feed off of sanity… It's more... Powerful...” Memories were flashing in front of my eyes, dark, disturbing memories.

“One day, I was getting a bit out of control, you offered up your sanity, so I could keep going.”

No.

“Knowing that the right amount of sanity I needed would kill you, I only left you with a small percentage of sanity, so I would have enough time to find something else to feed on.”

It’s not right…

“and that’s when you…” I felt at the back of my neck… A bite mark. “I’m so sorry Flare…” I started to feel sick in the stomach, he changed back to his own form and I stepped back slowly. They both looked at me GC with a sad look and Fluttershy with a worried look. “I-I remember…” I felt some blood trickle down my muzzle, Fluttershy went and got me some tissues to wipe away the blood; I was just about done with blood now, but at least they noticed it.

I sat back down and took a deep breath. “So... You're the reason?” I asked slowly in a weak voice. "As far as I know, yes." I thought for a minute "No. No, Luna was the one responsible, she told me so in my dream" I stuck with that, until GC responded. "She was the one responsible for your coma, not your insanity."

"NO IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT!" I yelled back quickly. GC sighed and got up. "If you wont believe me... I'll have to show you" GC grabbed onto my back, I started feeling tingly, and then my vision faded into what seemed like GC's Apothecary.

My vision got clearer and I realised it was me standing at GC's door, I felt like I didn't have control over myself, I went through the door where I saw GC freaking out, moving papers and items around his shop, and then he noticed me "FLARE! W-what are you doing here? You shouldn't be here!" He said franticly as if he was looking for something. Out of my own control I asked; "Woah! GC! What's wrong?" It was like watching a movie, I couldn't control myself but I could still see what was happening, I could even feel myself moving. GC came up to me and said. "I'm sorry I kept this as a secret from you" He changed into a different form.

"I'm a changeling, I feed off of sanity. I had some sanity potions lying around but I think I ran out." Ran out? I stood in silence as I watched GC get more and more unstable, then I said something I never thought I would've said. "...Take my sanity" WHAT!? did I really just say that? GC looked at me shocked and appalled "W-why? No I won't do it" he responded fervently looking around. "Do it GC, I'd rather give my life for a friend to keep living, rather than letting him die. Just do it."

He looked at me, with a worried look on his face, he sighed and said okay. He walked over to me, grabbed onto my head and neck, and asked. "Are you sure you want to do this?" I responded shortly after. "anything for a friend. Just do it" there was a silence, before I felt a sharp jab in the back of my neck. It felt unpleasant but it didn't really hurt too much, my vision started fading into blackness, then pain started to kick in. "Shit... No... PLEASE! STOP! ARGH!" the last thing I saw was my limp body falling to the ground. "I-I'm sorry Fl-Fluttershy... I'm so sorry" My vision faded back clearly, I was now in my house in Cloudsdale.  "Well. this is where it all started" GC informed me. "No. I can't believe I put myself through this." I mumbled softly.

"It's not your fault Flare, I was the one who decided to go through with it." I didn't want to fight about it now, I just sat in silence. "Take me home." I was feeling worn out, and I had a headache. "You are home Flare." GC said in a way that he wouldn't normally say something.

"...Come on GC, I don't wanna play any jokes now." He looked at me in a more serious tone now. "You are home Flare. Back where you belong" What? "You never belonged here."

No. "GC... What are yo- Why are you?.."

"What you've experienced, didn't happen." I was getting more and more confused. "G-GC. Y-you." My muzzle started bleeding again, I coughed.

"Birth. Separation. Insanity. It never happened." My vision blurred again and came back. I was at the cemetery. "Look behind you Flare" I turned around. No... I saw a grave... With my name on it... I was Stillborn.  I turned back around. "Flare... You're not real."

"No... It's not right... Everything has happened, the asylum, Fluttersh-."

"She never knew you." This can't be happening, I looked around, the world was crumbling beneath us.

"GC! What's happening!?" I yelled in a worry. "You're realizing." I started crying in a fit of panic. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN REALIZING?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!" I screamed out in a worry. "I'm sorry Flare, I can't help you now." The ground crumbled beneath my hooves causing me to jump and start hovering, My eyes were filled with tears, I felt like I couldn't breathe. "You're just going to have to accept it." No. "I'm going to miss you buddy"

"SHUT UP!"

"I'm sorry Flare." He crumbled away along with the world, I started feeling pain all over, cracks and rips throughout my body. I felt my wings rip off. And I started to fall. I sobbed as I fell, not knowing when I would stop. everything was flashing before me. and then I heard a Familiar voice. Fluttershy's. "Goodnight Flare." I felt a sharp pain. And then... Nothing....

"I'm sorry Flare... I'm so sorry..."

Death... It hurts... Please stop... I can't breathe...

Whiteness engulfed my eyes, I heard a newborn foal crying. "It's a colt! A beautiful, baby colt." I heard someone say. Is that... My dad? My vision eventually came to. I was in a hospital... Doctors surrounded me... "Congratulations sir..." I heard one of the doctors say... "L-let me H-Hold him...." I heard my mother say, "W-wait a minute... Something's wrong..."

What? No... Everything stopped, even me... I could only move my eyes... Out of the corner of my eyes I saw someone moving. I moved my eyes over to the movement, It was Golden Compass... "H-Hey buddy...." He said softly. "I-I'm sorry I couldn't help you... But I'm going to make it right!. I promise..." I heard him say slightly tearfully. I tried to speak but only my thoughts came to: 'GC! HELP ME! PLEASE!' He just turned around and walked back into the crowd of doctors. everything resumed, then I felt extreme pain in my chest.

I tried to scream but nothing came out. "Give him here!" I heard a doctor yell. "W-WAIT! Where are you taking him?" I heard my dad say. "It's going to be okay..." The doctor said just before taking me away from my parents. "W-WAIT! NO! DON'T TAKE HIM FROM ME! FLARE! NO!" I heard my mother scream trying to get me back. I.... I can't breathe.... GC... Help....

Chapter 2.5 (OMAKE) Rainbow Flare is A Ninja

THIS IS A PARODY OF ALL THE MESSAGES I GOT TELLING ME TO HURRY UP WITH THIS STORY THIS SHOULDN'T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY ANYONE... I MADE THIS IN 5 MINUTES

I Walked up to flootershais haus and looked in her Window and and yelled "FLOOTERSHAI, I WANT YOUR SOMETHING!!!!" She gasped at my weirdness but this was okay because I was married to her LOLOLOLOL. I went into her haus and said "Kizz me Babii" and she said "NO!" I Went up to her but she walked away because my eyes started bleeding from overuse of Mangekyo Sharingan. cause you know Flare is a ninja "Wait Flootershai I need to tell you Something" She turned around and said "I Love you but if you are going to say that you are homosexual then I will hate you..." (Yes Flootershai is a Homophobic)

Flootershai got to the bottom of the stairs and asked me what I wanted to tell her. "Well Flootershai. I am Actually..." We pause for about an hour of silence. "A Ninja" Then The Song "KUNG FU FIGHTING" Carl Douglas started playing

THE END

Chapter 3.5 (OMAKE) Fluttershy Plays Call of Duty Blops 2

THIS IS A PARODY THIS SHOULDN'T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

I Was on Xbox Live. Playing some Call of Duty Black Ops 2, I Was on the winning team, and I was on a awesome killing spree. with a Stealth Chopper, K9 Unit and a Swarm. I was about to get my 5th swarm when I suddenly got killed by someone. "YEAH! SUCK ON THAT FLARE!" I Heard through my turtlebeaches, Is That Fluttershy?

I Walked down stairs to a very messy living room. This was kind of my fault, I Introduced her to video games.

"F-Fluttershy... I" "SHUT UP FLARE I'M PWNING N00BS!" I Sighed and went upstairs knowing there was only one thing I could do. Get Online and tell her through black ops 2

We were on Standoff, she was running around with a DSR-50 quick-scoping like an amateur. (And when I say "Amateur" I Mean everyone who trickshots quick-scopes or 360 no scopes is a good for nothing amateur)

Fecal-Matter was about to hit the industrial-sized air-circulation device.

"Fluttershy" I said calmly. "What do you want Flare?" She snapped back. "I think you are playing too much Black ops 2" I said like I was on A&E Intervention. "Oh come on Flare, I only got this game today." "Well. Yea but Fluttershy, Call of Duty: Ghosts comes out tomorrow and." "WHAT?! WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO? I GOTTA GO AND PRE-ORDER IT!" She yelled as she threw down the microphone. I then heard someone say over another mic "What is with her?" I sighed. "It's my wife... She really fucking loves Call of Duty."