Act 5: THE MIDDLE OF THE END (SHATTERED MIND)
Author's Note
(Welcome to the second part of the final act. This might sound confusing: the titles and names and all that but trust me I had a really “good think” about what should be there or not. I mean it could have been all together; this act but I think that would be ridiculous. I am just trying to raise the tensions, make all of you eager for more. And if you are going to ask, I have done all of this before releasing the first act. Why do you think I am able to submit these acts continuously in 5-10 short days? Okay, the act 2 and act 3 thing doesn’t count if you have been following from the first act. Yeah, 15 days was annoying but eh, it is released now so you can read it and criticize it with your heart’s intent. You know the whole breaking down the hard work that creators pull off and all that when they are making something. Anyway, this act is particularly seeping with original content so have fun whilst reading this. I won’t let them play around a lot in this act though so there won’t be much to learn from them. Anyway, there is gore and all that in this act plus several dark themes. And sorry about the whole miniature rant about the fanbase in the last author note; I went a little overboard but trust me, I don’t need to ruffle some feathers in doing that so I’ll move on. Lastly, thank you for following me… not in the creepy stalking type of way but you know online. Although I am not going to use this site anymore after Bones is complete. I am NOT deleting the account but instead, use others in the future…. But don’t worry, Bones will be up on this site for you to read until something incredibly stupid or incredibly bizarre happens to it. But please don’t worry about me not being there on this site when I am done. I may leave but Bones is safe with all of you and yes, he is “safe” with me as well. Right, let’s finish this hopefully for the last time because this is like the 6th time I have done this. Oh god, if I have to do another one of these, I am going to snap. – TheCreativeFormat)
Act 5: THE MIDDLE OF THE END (SHATTERED MIND)
The Awakening – Where am I? Why can’t I remember who I was? What has happened to me? Where is everypony? All these questions filled my head when I woke up. Around me were fragments of shattered glass with what seemed to be the places I went to on it. Above me, the sky had seemed to be broken 5 times, with each broken layer overlapping each other. I got up and I almost threw up. I felt weird. My mind was all fuzzy and my limbs felt like they were made of jelly. Carefully, I looked around the place and saw that I was in some kind of platform game. Looking around, I saw that the whole place was made up of other places. There was a forest, a large factory in the distance, and the place that I was in which was made of a green floor and a checkerboarded mantle. Green hill. What? Why did it sound so familiar? I moved onward, avoiding the broken glass, and before long, I saw 3 large platforms above me.
To my surprise, I saw Fluttershy there. “Fluttershy? Is that you?” Before she turned to face me, I heard a laugh behind me and I fell back in shock. It was the hedgehog hybrid but this time his eyes were completely gone and were replaced with two bleeding pupils which were surrounded by a dark void.
"Surprised to see that you made it this far back. Ah, well. This adventure is over.” The demon who pretended to be Fluttershy fell to where I was and it pushed me into the bottom of the small platforms. Her laughter overlapped with the hedgehog’s one. When I tried to get up, a red knife suddenly pierced my chest. I then heard another demon laugh, this time it sounded like a little girl. I could see she was going to bring the knife upwards so my head would split in two. But before she could do that, I heard the sound of something hitting her. She screamed in shock and I saw that she got hit by a bone that looked like a spike. Several more appeared and before long, she became nothing but a massive blood puddle.
Slowly, I pulled out the knife and the remains of her hand from my body with a bloodied crack. The hedgehog hybrid, “Fluttershy” and I were confused about who did that but then a blue blur appeared and knocked the demonic hedgehog to the ground. I heard a less demonic chuckle and then we saw who the other blue hedgehog was. It was him. The one from the cage.
“Not this time Exetior,” he said in a confident tone. He wagged his finger from side to side until he played a small game of hitting Exetior into the blood-red ocean. I saw him land into the spikes of rock near the ocean itself which pierced his chest and his own heart. The last one was “Fluttershy” but as soon as I blinked the metal rabbit was behind her, still in the dark shade of his body. He grabbed her by the throat and pulled her upwards. I could hear her spine give way and her body fell to the floor… but not her head. He had it in his hands and with one throw, he threw it into the wall of a cliff near us. We could hear a wet smack and with that, the 3 demons were finished.
I was happy that I was saved by anything that wasn’t a demon but it soon turned to pain. I flinched and I put a hoove over my stab wound. Both the robot bunny and the hedgehog looked at me. I heard a deep growl emerge from the robot and it said: “Use your magic.” I did as I was told and before long, the wound dissipated and I was back to “normal”.
“So, do you want to tell me why you helped me and in doing so, forget what you did in the past or not?”
The hedgehog sprang to life and he said: “Well buddy, we’re here because we need you. You see, without you, we don’t have a start at all so that’s why we’re here. To help finish your story and begin ours.”
“Why don’t you tell me your names so we can get started?”
“SURE THING, the name’s Sonic the Hedgehog But you can call me Sonic if you want. That big bunny is known as Bonnie and the one with the bones is known as…”
“Hacker.” I heard something behind me and I turned around. I saw the skeleton from the cage behind me. It still looked like it went on a joyful murder spree but he did have a look of sympathy for me.
“Ah yes, Hacker. You got rid of Chara, didn’t you? We don’t want her being a thorn to our side.”
“Oh, she won’t return.” He smiled but Sonic told him how creepy it was. This escalated into an argument until Bonnie intervened.
“Enough. We have a job to do.”
“Oh yeah,” Sonic replied. “Look, you need to stop Inverted and the only way to do so is by destroying your dreams and resetting your recent memories. That way, he will be weakened and then you can give him hell.”
“And what’s in it for me?” I said weakly.
“Oh, you will be helped by all three of us and I’m sure that we can make the perfect trio for you,” said Hacker.
“Right. Let’s begin.” Said Bonnie, stopping my reply to what Hacker said. “Hacker can you?”
“It will be my pleasure.” His skeletal hand started to glow and he placed it on the ground. The world started to glitch and soon enough, all of it disappeared. We were then in a massive white void and ahead of us were several different places from my dreams. They were all connected by a massive array of pipes and cogs. “Right, my dear Bonely pony, let’s begin making history and nostalgia.”
The Portal Monster: Heading onwards, I approached the first area. The other three followed me. Huh, I guess they kind of forgive me for what they have done but I still need to be wary of them. I’m not sure if they can be easily angered or not. I approached a large door and I opened it. I looked inside and realized we were above the manor in the Insanity dream.
“I’m not sure we can get down from this entrance.”
“Hehe, observe Bones”
I was pushed down and I said: “Ah you son of a –” but before I hit the ground I was picked up by Sonic.
“As I showed, I’m quick at saving people and any living being.” Hacker was at the entrance and he chuckled. I blinked and he disappeared and reappeared alongside us. The last one was Bonnie. He jumped down and slide off the roof of the manor. He wasn’t falling by the looks of things as he was doing it on both of his metallic feet. He fell to where we were with a large mechanical thump and with that, all of us were here.
“Right, Sonic DON’T push me next time.”
“Yeah, yeah, I won’t”
“Hey do you hear that?” the three quietened down and when they did, we heard the sound of digging dirt. We walked to where it was and we saw the same portal monster from the library, digging up the graveyard.
“What’s it doing?”
“Removing the main aspect of this world.”
“You mean the graveyard?”
“No not the graveyard but the ghosts that reside in it.” We heard an echoic scream and we saw one of the ghosts in the graveyard was picked up by the bloodied hands of the monster. It opened its maw and he bit down on it. He was torn in half. When we could hear the sound of his flesh ripping and his bones breaking finished, the monster threw the other half into his mouth.
“We got to stop this thing!” said Sonic.
“I agree with you.” Replied Hacker. As a result, it looked like they were preparing themselves for battle but I intervened.
"Wait what?! We can’t just fight it right now. How are we going to take it down with just our attacks?” While the three, well two that is, tried to answer those questions me and Bonnie were looking at our surroundings. I then noticed a set of ropes with a clawed metallic end and I nudged Bonnie. I pointed towards them and he started to smile. I silently picked up the two ropes and I threw them at sonic and Hacker.
“Right two of us will have one of these ropes. We throw him at the mouth of that monster and we pull separately. That way, we tear it in half. Good plan?” the others nodded and Hacker smiled. He picked up the rope and chose his partner: Bonnie. I teamed up with Sonic and we prepared ourselves.
“Wait for it,” I said to Sonic. “When they throw theirs, we need to throw ours.” I saw the rope from the other group hit the monster in the side of the jaw and I threw mine and Sonic. It landed on the other side of its jaw. It screamed out in anger and tried to consume us. “COME ON. PULL WITH ALL OF YOUR ENERGY!!” It was hard to pull the rope but soon enough, we were able to start moving. We heard the sound of the monster’s bones falling apart and with one sharp bloodied crack, the face split into two. The face fell to the floor and sonic and I collapsed, exhausted. Sonic gave a thumbs up to me and I nodded. We slowly got up and we saw that our plan worked. The face was split into two. We then saw the remains of the monster enter the portal and with a magical wave, the portal contracted and exploded. Around us, the effects of that monster were reversed and everything was back to normal.
“Nice work you two,” said Hacker.
Bonnie just shrugged and he walked off. “Over here.” We walked to where Bonnie was and we saw a portal with a syringe on it.
“I guess we can properly start now,” I said to the others. They nodded and before long, we began the first task we had to do.
The Ruined Factory: Entering into the portal, we saw the factory had become abandoned and destroyed. Around us, the place that used to be active all the time had now been torn apart and had its machinery scattered around us.
“Jesus, is this what Inverted had done to the factory?” said Sonic. I nodded sadly and I proceeded onwards. It was at that point, we realized that a big part of the machinery that was destroyed was the Pegasus device. It had collapsed on its side and had taken a large part of scaffolding with it. The whole place was just filled with broken scrap metal and ruined rooms at this point.
“Do you think anypony may have survived?”
“Scanning. No lifeforms detected apart from us” answered Bonnie. Knowing what that meant, I tried to change the subject.
“So how, do we do this then? How do we destroy the dream?”
“Usually, we would have to get rid of the main aspect of the dream itself. Now because this is the Rainbow Factory, it’s the Pegasus device.”
“But isn’t it already destroyed?” I said confusingly.
“No, it has to be turned into scrap metal or be turned into a pool of molten metal.”
“How do we do that then?” I heard a laugh and Hacker snapped his skeletal hand. A massive creature with two red eyes with blood going down its face appeared. It opened the two miniature parts of its mouth and it growled.
“WHAT IN CELESTIA’S MANE IS THAT?”
“What, you have never seen one. This is a gaster blaster. It’s something I use to get rid of pests.” The blaster appeared at the top of the sideway device and it opened its mouth. Suddenly, two red wires spurted out of its eyes and landed near us. “It needs heat.” Said Hacker. “Here sonic, use your speed to heat it. Bones, can you put this in Bonnie’s chest cavity?” He gave me the other wire and I steadily approached Bonnie. He used his hands to open his chest and I was shocked by what I saw. They seemed to be 3 canisters of blood inside of him, which were connected to his systems. He tapped me and pointed at a miniature mechanical box at the bottom of one of the canisters. I plugged the wire in and I could hear a small groan of pain emitting from his throat.
“All ready,” I yelled at Hacker. “Right, Bones stand back and watch the show.” The wires then suddenly changed from red to deep orange. Both the speed from Sonic and the internal heat emitted from Bonnie was powering the blaster. After a couple of seconds, the blaster released a dark red and orange beam which completely melted the device. For a couple of seconds, I could see the gears and mechanics of the device slowly melt, before it was quickly turned to dust. And with that, the device that ended so many lives was gone.
“Nice job, everyone,” I said excitedly. “That’s one down, three to WHOA!!” The place suddenly fell apart and we were back in the white void again. “What just happened?”
“The simplest way of putting it is that you will no longer have that dream again.” Answered Sonic. I smiled but I realized something. Because that dream was gone, I would never see anypony from that place again. Memorizing those who were in that factory and the countless hours used to help me, I started to cry. All those years of training from them and now I can only thank them by getting rid of them. I felt a hand on me and realized it was Bonnie.
“We all make sacrifices. Even those who are strong have to do so.” I looked at the others and they agreed.
“You may have made friends there but you did save them from a large number of torture Bones. Now they can rest and be freed from Inverted’s grasp.” Said sonic sadly. I looked onward and saw a metallic door slowly open.
I wiped the tears and I said: “Let’s proceed onwards then.”
“Wait. BONES WAIT!” yelled Bonnie. We heard laughter echoing in the hallway and before we could do anything, the ghosts of several decomposing bodies of ponies and humans circled us. They used their hands to drag us in with no sweat at all. As soon as they forced us in, they smiled before the metallic door closed on us, which turned everything to darkness.
The Pink Pony: “Are you alright” I said to the others. “I can’t see you very well.” I then felt a cold hand appear over my face and I heard laughter ahead of us. In front of us was Pinkie Pie with her mane drooped down her face. She had a bloodied red knife in hand and after scanning the areas with those pupil-less eyes, she walked off slowly. “What was that?” I whispered to the others. “Pink. Stay quiet and don’t move when you are near her.” Bonnie replied quietly. The others shrouded their eyes with black cloths or something which hid their glowing eyes from that alternate form of Pinkie Pie. We then slowly preceded onwards and we went around the hallway. To my shock, the remains of humans and ponies scattered the area. There was blood on the walls and corpses on hooks. We then saw a red light slowly moving down the hallway. The others scattered to an opening nearby and I quietly followed them.“Oh shit, your coat.” Bonnie then picked me up and shoved me inside his chest cavity. It was crampy as hell and I could barely move. After a couple of seconds, I was picked out of it. I gave Bonnie an angered look and he whispered: “Sorry.” We then tiptoed past the corpses and this hallway until we saw the exit. Another large mechanical door. We approached it and with a grunt, Bonnie lifted the door with his hand. But the sound was too loud and we heard screaming behind us. I ran into the area behind the metallic door and once, everybody was through, Bonnie forced the metal door to the ground. For a split second, we saw the pinkie pie with both her eyes and mouth lit up by a blue essence appear around the corner. But as soon as the door fell to the floor, we heard a bang and we could hear her screams while she tried to forcibly open the door. “Let’s keep moving,” said Bonnie. “So… Are we agreeing that we will never talk about what just happened then?” “Yeah pretty much,” said Sonic. “As Bonnie said, let’s keep moving before that demon knows how to rip apart the door to get to us.” With that event over with, we proceeded onwards until we found the next area we were looking for: the bakery.
The Trashed Cupcakes – To be completely honest, the bakery looked rather normal. Apart from the smashed windows and doors, everything looked relatively normal.
“It looks, actually alright to be honest.”
“Don’t be fooled” said Hacker. “I know that there is a lot of things that are deceiving and this is one of them.” We walked in and well Hacker was right. The outside looked like paradise while the inside looked like hell. The whole place was in ruins and to my shock, the entrance to the dungeon was open. We cautiously headed down there and before long, we arrived in the party room. The whole decorations of the place were torn down and were crumbled remains of what they used to be. It was no longer a party and more of an abandoned celebration. To my shock, I saw Pinkie Pie from the dream hung up against the braces and chains that many were hung up too. I approached her and she slowly opened her eyes. She was alive. Impossible.
"B-Bones i-is that y-you?” she said weakly. I looked at her and I realized she wouldn’t make it. She was cut in two and had all her limbs cut off. I raised a hoove over her face and she slowly moved her cheek to it, rubbing it lightly.
“I’m… sorry I didn’t arrive here or help you,” I said sadly.
She stared at me sadly and said: “It’s alright. I forgive you.” I heard her take her last breath before her head slowly fell to her chest. With a steady hoove, I closed her eyes and went with the others. Bonnie pointed to a tray of freshly “organic” cupcakes and with my magic, I incinerated them. I heard a groan from the building and the place quickly fell apart.
“We need to get out of here now!” said Hacker.
“How?! We can’t just –” But as soon as I started the sentence, we were back outside.
I heard Sonic panting and say: “A little something that being quick can do for you.” He wiped the sweat from his head and said: “Right let’s continue.” Bonnie then put his arm in his path and he pointed at me.
“What?” both of us said.
“We… rest,” said Bonnie.
“But we can’t rest!” I yelled. “We still got things to do.” But despite our plea to continue forward, we were forced to stay for as long as Bonnie requested. I sat down near Hacker and Sonic and after a while, I made a magical campfire that enlightened the area with light and warmth. “I still consider this a waste of time,” I said annoyingly.
“You’re tired. Bones.” Said Bonnie.
“No, I’m not” I replied.
“Show us your magic then.” I tried to do as he requested but every time an object I made out of magic appeared, it would quickly dissipate into thin air. I knew he was right as that would always happen if I was too tired to continue. I rested and said: “Well if we are staying here, why don’t you tell me what happened in your worlds then?”
Sonic shrugged and said: “Well in my world, I fight back against an evil force. That’s it”
“Pretty simple I am not going to lie. You Hacker, what’s your story”
“I… I suffer and bleed in every world I am in. I kill those who I think don’t matter. Don’t worry, I won’t kill you. Besides you are the beginning of my life after all.” I whimpered and I moved away from him.
“What’s your story, Bonnie?”
“I’ve been abandoned by everyone I knew.”
“Oh, I’m sorry for that.”
“It doesn’t matter. Besides does it sound familiar?” I thought of that and realized something. It did. I was forgotten by those I knew and eventually, I would, and presumably, he would become something he wasn’t. I nodded and he shrugged his mechanical arms.
“So why is it that I am the beginning for all of you?” I asked confusingly.
“Well, you are the first creation made and shown to the public” replied Sonic.
“The… public?”
“Yeah, the people that watch and read what you do and all that. They are like your invisible admirers for everything you do.”
“So, they see what I do in Equestria?”
“Well no, not exactly. You see, you were made as a type of product by our creator. He wants to see if you are popular as he thinks you could be. Now he may find it aggravating that he used a girl show as a basis of your creation but he does have to start from somewhere.”
“So is that what Inverted meant when he said girl show?”
“Yeah, the whole Equestria world thing was an idea made by another person. Our creator had made you with the sole intent to reflect on what has been made in the past. We could say that it has been relatively successful.”
“How do you know what he does? Your apparent creator?”
“Because we are with him wherever he goes. He wants to succeed and to do so he needs two things: Skill and Talent. You see because you are the first creation, he wants to see if he has them or not.”
“So my purpose is to be a test subject?”
]“Not exactly” intervened Hacker who was listening in on the conversation. “He admires you, just like us. He wants to see people care about you and admire what you are. However, that is where HE steps in. He controls everything we do. Why do you think those dreams happened? They weren’t made by your parents but by other creators just like him. He wants to see if he can use nostalgia as a type of toy so others can have fun with it.”
“I don’t understand.”
“When the time does go by, you’ll understand what I mean by this. Essentially, we all have a purpose but it requires talent and skill to do so.”
“Enough,” said Bonnie. “He knows what we are doing and he doesn’t like it.”
“You can hear him?”
“No… but he knows that this little conversation has gone on for far too long. Now, you should start to get some rest. We got another work day tomorrow.” He stood up and he stayed there… not moving.
“What’s he doing?”
“Protecting us while we sleep. He’ll be there when we wake up. It’s just a feature that he has when I and Hacker usually rest.”
“Oh. It does look creepy though.”
“It’ll be fine. You can rest now if you want. For me… I’m going to get some shut-eye.” Sonic rolled over to his side and before long, I heard him sleeping. I looked to my left and saw that Hacker was also asleep. I rested my head on the ground and I looked up at the white void. When I was finished, I would return to Equestria and in doing so kick Inverted’s ass into the hellhole he came from. I smiled at the thought and began thinking about the ways I can hurt him. But that turned to drowsiness and just like the two on both sides of me, I drifted off to a peacefully warm slumber.
The Saddened Face – After a goodnight's sleep, I was awoken by Sonic. “Hey, sleepyhead. Had a good night's sleep. Bonnie and Hacker had found the next dream we were looking for so we need to catch up with them.” I got up to my hooves and saw that the magical fire I made was still there. Enlightening my horn, I got rid of it and preceded to where Bonnie and Hacker were. After a couple of minutes of silent walking, Sonic said: “over there” I saw that he was pointing to two figures in the distance. As soon as we got near them, the white void on the ground turned bright red and the white void around us turned dark orange. As soon as we were near the two, sonic said: “I got Bones with me.”
“Ah good. Had a goodnight's sleep Bones. Hehehe. We don’t have them very often,” said Hacker. He was nudged harshly by Bonnie and he pointed somewhere near the landscape. Upon investigating, I realized it was a picnic sheet near a toppled-over tree. We walked up to it and saw the remains of a decaying pony. Her skeleton and organs were splattered over the wilted ground and her blood painted the tree.
“Poor, Rarity.” I looked at what was left of her and I then heard movement behind us. The others heard it as well and Bonnie’s head twisted around, apart from the rest of his body. The rest of his body then followed suit and when doing so, the other two turned around as well. It was the smiling Pinkie, with all her teeth out. She looked at us with saddened eyes and she tried to say something or anything. The only thing we heard was a gargle and a splatter of blood. Looking at her options to talk to us, she used the blood pool she made and the blood around us to make a message. “KILL ME. MAKE THIS SUFFERING END. PLEASE. RIP MY BRAIN OUT AND DESTROY IT.” She pointed at those words she made and I looked at her sadly. Bonnie just shrugged and grabbed her by the flank. He then lifted her to where his mouth was. I didn’t know what he was going to do but suddenly, he bit down on Pinkie’s face. Blood began pouring out of his mouth and we heard a sharp crack and crunch. I nearly threw up by the sheer stench and horror of it all. After a couple of minutes, Bonnie removed the corpse of Pinkie from his mouth and picked out a device in his mechanical mouth. I saw it was a type of metal meter with a piece of the brain still attached to it. With a satisfying crunch, he made a fist which destroyed the device. I looked at the dead Pinkie. I then looked at the bloodied mouthed animatronic. His dark shade was being overlapped with dark and bright red down his mouth.
He used his hands to get rid of the blood and he looked down at me. “It feels so familiar yet so distant.” I nodded and backed away from him.
“Can you not do that again?” He let out a small laugh and he walked onward. “I’m going to have nightmares about that for weeks,” I said mockingly.
“Oh don’t worry. It is just your imagination after all” Hacker replied. We continued onwards for 5 minutes until I realized something. “Doesn’t that mean we have done 3 of my dreams now?”
“Yes, it does” answered Sonic.
“Well, that just leaves the BloodPony Platform Game then. But how are we going to get rid of it, if it is a game?”
Hacker smiled and said: “Oh… we’ll find a way” before he ended up laughing uncontrollably.
Sonic replied with his sudden change of happiness with: “He’s excited about what he can do when we’re there. I think he knows what power he can use.” I looked at him with his demonic-looking face and I nodded at him.
The last thing I heard during our journey to the last dream was my reply which was: “Well. Thank Celestia’s Mane that he is on our side where he doesn’t have to kill us.”
The Last Dream – Approaching the final dream, I thought about what was happening in Equestria. I wondered about what happened to my friends. What would Inverted do with them? WHAT WILL HE DO!? So many questions were filling my mind but I knew that the ones who were still alive or fine in Equestria had to hang on, just a little longer. But that worry turned to anger and I broke the silence. “We need to hurry the buck up!!” I yelled at the others.
“Stop your anger.” Muttered Hacker. “We’re… already here.” He said with an evil smile. As promised the white void morphed into the same platform game I have seen countless times.
“Right, so what power will you use then Hacker?” I said wonderingly. He let out a laugh and by using a gaster blaster as a ride, he rose to the sky. “Where’s he going?”
“He’s getting to the top border of the game.”
“Game? You mean the platforms and all that. But it’s down here.”
NO! The “bloodpony platform game” is a digital game demo or a game which is why Hacker was excited. He'll use his skills to shut down the game and reboot it. In turn, the dream will vanish.”
“ALRIGHT, I’M AT THE TOP!” He screamed down at us. He lifted his skeletal hand out and very faintly, I saw it surrounded by a greenish glow. I saw the very small text and numbers fly out of it and with a smile, he brought the hand to the world’s border. As soon as he did so, the world suddenly started to glitch out. Around us, different places and characters appeared and disappeared. The sky started to change colors and in the distance, I heard a faint humming sound which soon got louder every second. I heard Hacker laugh and with one final press down on the border, the world seemingly collapsed around us. The numbers and places fell out of view and shimmered through the white void. I heard a small sound and after that, Hacker appeared near us. “That was sure fun. It’s a shame I won’t be able to do that again.”
“How did you do that?” I said excitedly.
“I learned it… from a friend of mine.” His smile quickly drawn into a frown but it soon went back to a smile immediately, so it only took a second for it to happen.
“Right, I guess we did it then.” I smiled, knowing that Inverted’s power has been numbed down and weakened a whole torrential lot.
“We’re not done.” Said Bonnie. I then heard the sound of scraping metal and behind us, the whole place started to deform and contract on itself. The white void around us turned into shattered pieces that fell out of our sight and left us in permanent blackness. The only bright parts of our bodies at that point were our eyes and mouths, which made a red and white light where we looked. “3… 2…. 1,” Bonnie said with a groan from his vocal box. As soon as he said “1” the whole area shifted to the hatch that was in place of the Spike Pit. I opened it up with my magic this time and we entered. Getting to the chairs, I saw that the 4 Youtubers were strung up against the chairs with braces and chains, with their eyes being forcefully opened by a strapped device on their head. I saw that the chairs were connected to a lever on the left side of the room that was flipped down and with a grunt, I flipped it upwards. I heard a collective gasp and the Youtubers fell to the floor in pain.
I heard them coughing and yelling but soon enough, all of them got up. “Hehehe. Well isn’t this a surprise” said Brony. “Bloody Hell. How much pain do you have to endure to give up?” He continued.
“Thanks for helping us.” Said, Wooden. The others said their thanks but I ignored them. “How do you reset the recent memories?” I asked while looking at the screens which were all static.
“Um… by using this button.” Seed pointed to a button near him and I wandered over to it.
“A button... That’s very clichéd.” Sonic said smugly. I was about to press it until I heard a groan on the floor.
“Oh dear, Get to higher-” I yelled but I fell into the hole that used to be the floor. I heard a groan from everyone.
“Get the hell off me!” said Brony.
I looked around and saw Bonnie approaching me. “An obvious trap” he growled. The others got up and looked around the area.
“Where are we?” Wooden said. I suddenly enlightened my horn and as I did, to our shock the walls were covered in demons. Both ponies and otherworldly.
“It’s a trap… It’s a Fucking trap” I said. I looked down and saw a piece of paper which said: “Stop interfering with my mind you useless excuse for a pony.” “He knew it. He knew that we were draining his powers and so, he left us a departing gift.” I said worryingly. “Whelp. I guess we’ll die then” said Tombstone. I then heard a collective laugh.
The trio that was with me smiled and one of them said: “Oh don’t think we’re that useless.” Upon saying those words together, they prepared their weaponry. Bonnie opened his mouth and inserted his hand into it. I saw blood and what seemed to be organs flood out of his mouth in doing so. Slowly, he pulled out his hand and he smashed it against his chest. As soon as I was able to see it again, I saw it was now an “organically” made chainsaw with blood and organs strapped to his metallic arm. It was split into two and it began turning clockwise which made a mechanical growl. Hacker clicked his hands and several small and long bones appeared; along with several gaster blasters as well. Sonic’s shoes began spurting to life and he started to get ready to kill the demons. I enlightened my horn and my magic started to appear, in terms of daggers and cleavers.
“Hey, you lot. Why don’t we count how many we have killed?” Their smiles widened and with a mechanical laugh, Bonnie nodded his head.
“Oh, I’m down for a competition.” Said Sonic.
“Hehehe. Bones, you do know how to make a genocidal skeleton happy.” And with those words said, we began chopping the demons to pieces, to the Youtuber’s horror and delight. It was utter bloodshed and when we were finished, all of us were hoove deep in blood. When it was all over, I had around 60 kills.
“How did you do?”
“Got 170 kills,” said Bonnie.
“Got 175” kills said Sonic smugly.
“Got 210 kills,” said Hacker with a wider smile than Sonic.
Sonic’s smile quickly withdrew and he said: “What how did you get that many?” While they were arguing the floor we were on moved upwards and before long, we were back in the room.
“That was… one of the greatest things I have ever seen in my career. My god.”
The 4 Youtubers were dumbstruck by what they have seen but I said: “Well take a photo to remember this occasion or not. It is time for me to do what should have been done a couple of minutes ago.” I passed them and placed a hoove over the button from earlier. The others in my group nodded and I pressed my hoove down. An immeasurable pain suddenly emerged in my head and I began to scream. “What’s happening!? WOAH!” The 4 Youtubers disappeared into 4 separate portals and with a gasp, I fell to the ground, blacking out instantly.
The Goodbye – I woke up with the bright blue sun and clouds above me and I got up steadily. I placed a hoove over my throbbing head and I saw to my shock, the three that have been with me were around me. “What… Happened?” I said weakly.
“Well, when you pressed that button, the whole world disappeared apart from this place. The Youtubers that you used are gone and sent back to their channels so I guess you must have done it then. You completed the tasks set.” Looking around, I saw that it was the same original spike pit place that I was at many times in the past.
“We’re surprised that… What is it? Oh… we have to go” Sonic said sadly.
“What?! But I just knew you.”
“Yeah but we revealed too much about ourselves to others. Our creator doesn’t want us to be with you anymore and besides, we have finished the journey anyway.” I looked at them all angrily and I began arguing about how I barely knew them. I could hear them say it was a waste of time and that it was going to be alright if I wasn’t with them. “Hey. We might meet again Bones. I hope you understand that this won’t be the last time we meet. And who knows, maybe one day we might become friends.” I heard the sound of chains and immediately, three cages appeared out of nowhere. All three of them hoped in and waved goodbye. I saw their cages go up into the sky and just like a magic trick, the three cages disappeared into thin air… which left me alone. I looked at the other side of the pit and saw the exit portal. “I guess I better get moving then.” I thought sadly. I got up and proceeded onwards until I was stopped by an all too familiar sound. The sound of portals opening behind me. I turned around and my heart skipped a beat. It was them, the ponies and creatures from my dreams. They had smiles on all of their faces, not the cruel and sinful smiles that they used to have, but smiles that showed they were freed from Inverted. I looked at them in shock and then smiled back. “I guess all of you are here to thank me and all that.” Some nodded but others huddled up and talked to each other. I knew they were planning something.
“What’s up with them?”
“Look Bones. We wanted to give you a departing gift.” Said Rainbow Dash. Two of the demonic ponies from the BloodPony Platform game appeared and she continued: “We are that determined to kill that demon out there but ultimately that is upon you to do that. So we want you to use their magic and their bodies to help you when you fight him.”
“So, it is like having different companions to help me then when I battle Inverted?”
“Yeah. All you need to do is to interconnect your magic between these two and they’ll become a part of your mind. In doing so, when things are dire, you can use your magic to spawn them in and help you.” I nodded about the idea they had with the departing gift.
I got over to them and said: “Let’s do it.” I forced them closer so that their horns formed a small “X” and with a deep breath, I put my horn on it. I suddenly felt a sharp pain emitting to where my horn was and I could tell, they were feeling it as well. They let out a horrifying scream and with a final gasp, I pushed myself away from where I was standing. They were both gone and I could hear their faint screams in my mind.
“Here, you might want this.” In one of her hooves was a type of slushies’ cup and inside of it was a rainbow iced drink. She also gave me an ice pack which I grasped over my aching head. Once done, I threw it into the pit and walked over to her to get the drink. I grabbed it with my hoove and said: “Thanks.” I could tell that she was happy but I could also tell she was upset about something; all of them were. I then saw that her back hooves were fading away and she fell to the floor when they did so. I heard her crying and I trotted over to comfort her. “I don’t want to go! I-I don’t want to go… it hurts so much.” I could see that one-half of her body was gone and I slowly started to hug her.
“It’s alright. Shhh. I promise you that no pony will ever forget you for what you’ve done. You will always be the leader that every creature here needs.” She smiled and she slowly gasped in shock. The last thing I saw was those rose-colored eyes that were filled with sadness and acceptance before she fully disappeared. I got up sadly and looked at the others. The same effect was happening to them too. I then looked at the drink near me and I picked it up. The others were saddened but were also accepting their fates. After a while, all of them disappeared with pain and happiness on their faces. Glancing one last look at where they used to be, I slowly turned around to face the exit portal.
“Hey… WAIT!!” I quickly turned around again and before I could do anything, the two Pinkies from the Smile and Cupcake dreams appeared and hit me to the ground. Well not hit me but possess me. They were both transparent and had no eyes at all. I could hear them chattering away in my brain, apologizing over and over again but I knocked my head with my hoove which shut them up.
I then said: “NEVER DO THAT AGAIN…. Still, I could use you two as well to help me when I fight Inverted” I could hear the only one who can talk, talking about what she would do with Inverted, and let’s just say she wasn’t just turning him into a cupcake. With a quick flyby over the pit, I entered the exit portal… hopefully for the last time. I did a couple of steps until I felt that tingly and soul-falling feeling upon entering the place. A white light obstructed my view and with a flash, I got up panting massively. I was back. Back in Equestria. I looked down and saw that my original colors were back as well. Before (I forgot to mention this earlier) was a combination of Blue, white and black. And now, I was the original black and white. That feeling of positivity was sadly short-lived. The state of Equestria was an absolute nightmare. Around me, the place barely looked recognizable. I got up off the ground and my anger started to grow. “I’m not bucking around anymore. This is my home and their worlds'. I swear that all of us will take him down. NO LIVING THING WILL STOP ME!! HEAR THIS INVERTED, YOU MAY HAVE SHATTERED EVERY PLACE I HAVE BEEN TO AND MY OWN HOME. BUT THIS TIME, I WILL REPAIR WHAT… YOU... HAVE… BROKEN!!” With a yell of anger, I flew up into the sky and readied myself. I had the rainbow drink in my hoove and a sharp dark red in both of my eyes. I was back permeant this time. I have fully awoken and now I’m not just taking back control of what he has done but I’m also finishing this once and for all. As I flew with the others in my head, I only had one thought… which was to fix what had been made, and this time not even Inverted will stop me from taking back what was MINE!
End of Act 5 Part 2
