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by shortskirtsandexplosions

Rating: teen
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Second Person, Horror, Random
Length: 2814

Nothing belongs here unless it's meant to be fixed, Twilight Sparkle.

Nothing belongs here

Unless it's meant to be fixed

Twilight Sparkle

Published 2019-05-20 22:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2019-05-20 22:10:02 UTC

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

Take a right

Take a left

Take a right

Take a left

Take a right

Take a left

You stand in place

The buzz is above you

The buzz is behind you

The room splits

A fork in the yellow

In the yellow

In the yellow

There's a right turn up ahead

There's a left turn up ahead

A left turn behind you

A right turn behind you

You think about turning around

A complete one hundred and eighty degrees

But

The right will look left

The left will look right

Only the buzzing would remain

Only the buzzing would remain true

And then what?

At least it would be something different than what you've been doing

It would be retracing steps

Or have you actually been stepping?

You have been moving in one direction this whole time

Or has the rooms been moving?

And you have just been

Floating

Forward

As the buzz shifts

You close your eyes

You try to think

Past the buzz

Past the dust and musk

And dust and musk

And dust and musk and

You are better than this, Twilight

You are a clever unicorn

You've been through tougher situations

Crazier straits

More chaotic labyrinths

Think about your friends

Imagine that they're stuck here with you

What wouldn't you do for them?

Wouldn't you get them out as well?

Wouldn't you work your hardest?

You really

Really

Shouldn't have closed your eyes

Silly pony

A gasp

Your eyes flash open

Dust and musk

Mildew and yellow

A narrow corridor with mildew and mildew and

There's a fork

A right turn

A left turn

But which is right?

And which is left?

Only the buzz remains

Bright lights

Fluorescent and following

Silly pony

Must keep going

Just make a turn

Any old turn?

You do so

With

Your eyes closed

The buzz shifts

And it's just like floating

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

Stairs

The stairs lead up

But they do not pierce the buzzing

As you ascend

One hoof at a time

The buzz climbs

It carries on

And it carries on

Your ears flick

The buzz carries forward

On fluorescent waves

Or maybe it isn't climbing

It's just a sound

Maybe it is sinking

Sound goes in all direction

Then why are there no hoofsteps?

Your eyes widen

A stab of pain

Brightness and brightness

Piercing gravity

And as you look down

And as you look up

You lose track of either

Are these stairs going up?

Or down?

You pause

You lean against the wall

With your hoof

It's barely even there

Your hoof?

The wall

The walls are everywhere, Twilight Sparkle

They're your only friends now

The walls and the ceiling

Six sides, forever receding

Yet forever devouring

And one day they will sink inwards

And swallow you into nothingness

It was always bound to happen

Maybe

Maybe somepony got tired of waiting

And brought you here before your time

Unless

This is the time

The buzz

Lights flicker

The stairs tilt

Back

Forward

Somewhere

Teetering

No

Do not wait for the walls

You are not surrounded

You can't be

The sixth barrier

It

Is always receding

It is an exit

Must

You must find it, Twilight

You must find it and break free

The stairs tilt up

The are stairs in front of you

Climb

You climb

You ascend

Past the buzz

Through the buzz

The buzz follows

There's a hallway up ahead

There's always a hallway up ahead

Keep an even pace

Get on even hoofing

Even now

Even now

Even now

Do you seriously believe her?

A slight shudder

But

You keep moving

You ascend

And

The buzz

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

You're a clever unicorn, Twilight

A string

A yellow string

Why didn't you think of this before?

You lead it through the empty corridor

Over carpet and tile and mildew stains

The fluorescent lights catch the fibrous track

A golden glow

It is so very simple

The string goes around a wall

And takes a left

You turn left with it

The string will show where you've been

And where you haven't been

That's why you've left it

That's why you've been leaving it

Your pace quickens

The string drapes in a straight line up ahead

Until it doesn't

It goes around a wall

It takes a left

You turn left with it

Such a clever unicorn, Twilight

You would have to be

To fashion a string out of nothing

Was it the carpet?

Did you unravel it?

If so, from where?

You blink

You follow the string

But slowly, now

There's a wall up ahead

The string takes a left

So

You follow it

You

You made the string

You left the string here

Or did the string leave you here?

It leads straight ahead

Until

It doesn't

There is a wall up ahead

Such a clever pony, Twilight Sparkle

It turns left

So

You turn left

And

There's a string

It goes straight

Until it doesn't

There's a wall up ahead

It turns left

So

So

So

So

You

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

There's a chair here

You have stopped

There's a chair here

Why is there a chair here?

It's an empty room

With the lights

And the buzz

And

A chair

And you remember

Ten rooms ago

Or was it ten hundred rooms ago?

There were two chairs

Facing a wall

Facing each other

Facing nothing

Just like this one

It faces the wall

And the corner

But neither

It breaks up the symmetry

It is empty

As this room is empty

But why is it here?

Why were the other ones there?

Who is it for?

You're the only pony here

You're the only pony anywhere

The rest of the chamber is empty

Full of nothing

But fluorescent lights

And buzzing

Pointless

Purposeless

Forgotten

Crooked

Broken

It had to have been placed here

Or dropped here

Like you

Twilight Sparkle

Twilight

Who would miss a chair?

Twilight, you have to keep moving

Who would miss you?

Turn around and pick a direction

Any direction

But what if you find more empty chairs?

Just go

Move

What if you chose to sit in one?

Move, Twilight

You turn

You trot down the corridor

If you waited long enough

Would someone come sit beside you?

Move

Or would it take you somewhere deeper

Further

Someplace more broken than here

Than you?

Move

Move

Move

You trot faster

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

No

Yes

No

Yes

It's

Starting to make sense

No

Now

No

It's

Starting to make sense

Now

You stare at them

Feathers

Lavender feathers

That's

It's not

Look at them

Scattered

Across

The carpet

Lavender against yellow

A cold contrast

Left in a hurry

A flurry

There

There must be

No

A pegasus

Somewhere

With your coat color

No

Lost here with you

They don't leave a trail

They're just

Scattered

Like leaves

Lavender leaves

Soft and freshly-plucked

Yes

We all know

No

Yes, we all know why they're here

No

Just

You shudder

We all know why you're here

Just keep

You stumble

So broken

Just keep moving

You limp forward

Hooves over feathers

Hooves over carpet

Such a failure

Don't

Just

Please

You quicken your pace

The buzz follows

More feathers

After all, Twilight Sparkle

More feathers

Nothing belongs here

More feathers

Unless it needs to be fixed

More feathers

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

Branches

There are branches here

But

But how

There was a tree here

But where

There is a tree here

When

In pieces

Twilight

Twilight Sparkle

All across the room

Scattered across the corridors

Teetering off the stairs

Charred and burnt

Beneath

The fluorescent lights

Twilight

Don't

Look at it

You trot forward

You see fragments of books

Tattered lengths of bedsheets

The broken remnants of a telescope

And

A wooden horsehead

Cracked down the center

Look at all of it

Don't

Isn't it starting to make sense

Twilight Sparkle

Don't

You shake

Your heart

Your heart

It doesn't belong

Branches

And splinters

Scattered

Blasted

As you never belonged

Leave

Your heart beats

And that's why

You were brought here

Leave this place

You backtrot from the branches

But you only bump into more

Because you are a failure

They scratch and they claw

You must leave this place

Because you are broken

Twilight

Twilight

Leave

You hobble over the chunks of wood

You flee

You gallop

So broken that

You couldn't even be fixed

No

Twilight

The world blurs

The fluorescent lights sting

The buzz

Encompassing

Twilight

Don't cry

You were replaced

Don't cry

Just move

Galloping

They replaced you

Twilight Sparkle

Stumbling

Bumping

Just move

You

You will find them

They replaced you

You will find them

They replaced you

You must find them

Collapsing

Crying

Musk and dust

The buzz

Get back up

You get back up

Sniffling

And go

You gallop

Silly unicorn

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

A corridor

Just keep moving

Another corridor

Just keep moving

Walls and walls

Halls and halls

Fluorescent bulbs

And

Buzz

And

Buzz

Don't stop

The same way forward

The same way backward

There has to be an exit

There is always an exit

There is

They replaced you

No

Don't

They replaced you

Twilight Sparkle

Keep moving

Twilight

Twilight Sparkle

Twilight

Just

Imagine if you could fly out of here

Gallop

Keep

Galloping

But you can't fly

Keep

Galloping

Can you?

Down the corridor

Until

A scrap

What?

In the center of the floor

A scrap

It lies there

What

You stumble to a stop

Limping

Panting

And you look at it

No

Leathery

Translucent

Dragonskin

Oh no

Oh yes

Molted dragonskin

In the shape

Please no

Yes

Yes

The shape of wings

Please Celestia no

Broken

Failure

They replaced him too

They replaced him too

You cry

Nothing but buzz

So you run

They replaced him too

They replaced him too

They replaced him too

They replaced him too

You run

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

They replaced him too

They replaced you

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

You're a failure

Just keep moving

You're broken

Just keep moving

You've been replaced

Just keep moving

You're a failure

Just keep moving

You're broken

Just keep moving

You've been replaced

Just keep moving

You're a failure

Just keep moving

You're broken

Just keep moving

You've been replaced

Just keep moving

You're a failure

Just keep moving

You're broken

Just keep moving

You've been replaced

Just keep moving

You're a failure

Just keep moving

You're broken

Just keep moving

You've been replaced

Just keep moving

You're a failure

Just keep moving

You're broken

Just keep moving

You've been replaced

Just keep moving

You're a failure

Just keep moving

You're broken

Just keep moving

You've been replaced

Just keep moving

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

You breathe and you breathe

Musk and dust and

Dust and musk

Something itches

Something crawls

A buzz

Your skull

A never ending buzz

Like cicadas

Crawling on the ceiling

Then the floor

Sizzling on hot metal grates

Your skull has been on for too long

Open your eyes

The world slides in through narrow slits

A narrow corridor

Urine colored carpets

Fluorescent bulbs

Bright and bright and buzzing

An air of stale gold

Faded

Stiff as hay

A fitting diet, don't you think, Twilight Sparkle?

You feel like choking

Move

On stiff legs

You stand

A flick of the tail

And you feel nothing

No wind

No breeze

No coolness or freshness whatsoever

Just the mildew

And the buzzing

Buzzing and bright and buzzing and bright and

It found you

Or maybe you found it

You exhale

There's a narrow partition up ahead

Where a yellowed wall meets a yellowed wall

You trot forward

The buzzing comes and goes

A slight flicker to the lights

Or maybe you imagined it

You reach the partition

You turn the corner

And

Musk and dust and

Dust and musk

Something itches

Something crawls

A buzz

It is your head, Twilight Sparkle

After all, you brought it here as well, didn't you?

You rub your temple, leaning against a wall

It's neither warm or cold

But lukewarm

The walls

The walls

Your head or the room?

Both are the same

Would you expect any more?

Would you deserve any more?

Maybe the next room will be different

How did you know there would be another?

Only one way to find out

You move forward

Four hooves tiredly shuffling

Padding

Trotting without echoes

The buzz follows

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

Ascending

Descending

Tug and push

Gravity

Deflating

The walls are the floor are the ceiling are the walls

You know why you're here, Twilight Sparkle

Don't listen

You know what brought you to this broken place

Don't listen to her

Just

Move

Ascending

Hoofsteps

Without echoes

Without

Without

Think about it, Twilight Sparkle

Nature doesn't have tests

Nature has nothing to prove

Nature just is

Don't listen

Don't listen

Just

Trotting

Step by step

Up through the buzz

The lights

A flicker

Nothing about this is natural

Nothing about this is right

The geometry

The decay

It's trying to implode upon itself

It yearns for collapse

The six walls shrink

Hungry

Devouring

But

You

You

You have to keep moving

You're the only thing keeping it from dissolving into infinitesimal nothingness

Hoofsteps

Ascending

Descending

Past the buzz

It floats

It

A rock in the stomach

A pit

A center of gravity

Upon which all things spin

All things here

That shouldn't be here

That shouldn't be anywhere

Think, Twilight

Think about it, Twilight Sparkle

Think about your friends

Think about how wrong this place is

Think about how they're missing you

Think about how wrong you are

The sixth wall recedes

It will lead you out

It will lead you to them

You are here because of a test

A test that you are failing

Just keep moving

Hoofsteps

In

The buzz

And tests don't exist in nature

Buzzing

Because nothing in nature is bound to fail

Buzzing

Stepping

Hooves

Like you are

Don't

Broken

Don't listen

Broken

Keep moving

Broken

Just keep moving

Broken

The light flickers

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

Go right

Go left

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

Leave a string

Silly unicorn

Just follow a string

Silly unicorn

Have you tried using a string

Silly unicorn

Leave a string

Silly unicorn

Just follow a string

Silly unicorn

Have you tried using a string

Silly unicorn

Leave a string

Silly unicorn

Just follow a string

Silly unicorn

Have you tried using a string

Silly unicorn

Leave a string

Silly unicorn

Just follow a string

Silly unicorn

Have you tried using a string

Silly unicorn

Leave a string

Silly unicorn

Just follow a string

Silly unicorn

Have you tried using a string

Silly unicorn

Leave a string

Silly unicorn

Just follow a string

Silly unicorn

Have you tried using a string

Silly unicorn

Leave a string

Silly unicorn

Just follow a string

Silly unicorn

Have you tried using a string

Silly unicorn

and backrooms

Author's Note

and backrooms

Like a room

Like a tomb

It is nothing

This is nothing

Without a space

Without a breath

To give

To take

To forget

To make

Sometimes right

Sometimes left

Sometimes up

Sometimes down

Forward and backwards

Around and around

We tried

We failed

We cried

We wailed

And in the end

As in the beginning

We can always start

We can always start over

With you

Without you

The form

The formless

But always

But unless

A backup

A backroom

To pick from

To throw away

With

Without

The buzzing