Supposed Insanity

“HE'S ESCAPING!!!” I screamed. Ryan was being helped out of my hospital by those blasted ponies! How did they even get here?! I ordered my guards.

“Tasers!” They pulled their electrified weapons from their sheaths and readied them.

“AppleJack! Take Ryan!” The purple haired one turned and faced us. Easy enough, I assumed. She held her hands up and beamed some purple aura at us, blowing us back. I quickly jumped to my feet. I shouted commands into my radio.

“Intersect at isle four, subsection B! Entrance two!”

“Rodger!” They answered. I got my men back onto their feet and we continued the chase down the hallway.

The entrance was clear of all but one of my men lying on his back. Someone ran over to check on him.

“Sir! He's got a few broken ribs and a collapsed lung!”

“Leave him. Someone else, ready a van.” I responded.

“But, Sir! He's not going to-”

“I SAID LEAVE HIM!!” I forced my disobedient worker onto his feet and out the door. We arrived in the parking lot in a matter of seconds. We ran towards our fastest vehicle. I ripped the driver's side door open and pushed him inside.

“Drive!” I ordered. He put the key in the ignition and shifted the gear as I sat myself in the opposite seat.

We sped out of the lot around the same time that Ryan's vehicle was rounding the corner. We were going to catch him! They spun around a corner.

“DON'T LOSE THEM!!” I screamed. The driver quickly flung the wheel around and our van followed in suit.

“KEEP ON THEM!!” I was at the edge of my seat pounding on the dashboard. I'm surprised that the airbag didn't go off. Ryan turned around and faced me for a moment. We were closing in on him and it looked as if he were afraid. He had good reason to be.

“Chris!” The man behind me responded.

“Yes Sir!”

“Do you have a clear shot from back there?! I want you to take out their tires!” He pulled his pistol from it's holster and took aim.

“Now only take out the tires! Don't hit Ryan! We need him to be-” The van began to slow.

“WHAT?! WHY ARE WE SLOWING DOWN?!?” I flung my head to the side and noticed that the driver was seemingly asleep.

“We need some time to escape. Slow down.” He mumbled. I looked back towards the car in front of us. Ryan held his hand out toward us. Mind tricks, huh?

“NO! WE'RE NOT PLAYING THAT!!” I released his buckle and shoved him out of the van. His body hit the pavement at over fifty miles per hour. But at this point I didn't care. Another one of those universe jumping freaks was about to escape and I would not be responsible for that! I jumped into his seat and closed the door. We were regaining speed.

Their car sped toward an old abandoned building. They slid around the side and pulled into an unseen entrance.

“YOU ARE NOT GETTING AWAY!!” I slammed my foot down on the gas pedal and the van launched us forward. We followed the same pattern that was set by Ryan's car and we ended up at the rear entrance. I hit the break and jumped out of the van. My men followed suit. Myself and two others stepped onto a pad that was just flashing all sorts of brilliant colors. The fourth one with us, I told to flip a switch hanging off the wall. Everything went white.

The light faded and we were apparently still in the same room. Although, when I looked down, I noticed that I had hooves. Disgusting! The other ponies that helped Ryan out of my hospital were still in the building with us.

“WHERE IS HE!?!” I demanded.

“He's far away by now. I suggest you just leave.” The tallest of the ponies said.

“He's safe and you ain't doin' nothin' to him!” A smaller pony wearing a Stetson shouted at me. I only smiled.

“You are all IDIOTS!” The ponies recoiled. “Do you think that you have any idea what’s going on here?!” They seemed more confused now than angry.

“You’re trying to hurt Ryan! We won’t let you!” Again, I smiled. These incompetent ponies were funny to listen to, but not to deal with.

“I’m not trying to hurt Ryan… I am trying to keep the multiverse in tact and you all are getting in the way!” They again were confused. All but the purple one.

“Well, wouldn’t the multiverse fix itself if he were to live here on a permanent basis?” She asked. I became angry.

“IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT!! He has to be in his home world for reality to be stabilized!” I looked at them. I could tell by their expressions that they could see the fear in my eyes.

“Now hand him over!” They resisted.

“MEN! TASERS!” My guards pulled their tasers out again.

“IF YOU WON’T HAND HIM OER THEN WE’LL TAKE HIM!!” My men approached the ponies blocking our way, but before they could attack.

“Stop!” Ryan’s voice… I turned my head toward the entrance to the building and sure enough, there he was.

“I will go with you… If you swear to leave them alone.” I laughed.

“If you come with me, I won’t have a reason in the world to come back here!” He nodded and walked towards me. Strange enough, not even one of his pony friends tried to stop him. How sad… But what else could you expect from such disgusting creatures?

The pad went off again and we had returned to Earth.

“Destroy the portal!” I commanded. My men began disassembling the device as we got into the van. I sat in the driver’s seat, Ryan sat in the back. He was restricted due to a strait jacket I had put on him. He was staring out the window, a blank expression on his face.

“Although this seems that we are doing something to hurt you, we are only protecting the universe. Nothing personal. But, regardless, thank you for your cooperation.” He only looked at me. His face was completely blank of any expression or emotion of any kind. He almost seemed dead. Good. I had saved the universe, sewed all of the loose seams, and broken the spirit of the one causing all the trouble.

We arrived at the hospital. I got Ryan out of the van through the back. He was strapped to a dolly and I had to roll him into the building.

“You are doing the right thing here.” I assured him… Still no response. Still good. But unusual.

We were back in the treatment room. Ryan was being strapped down by the nurses and I was readying the shock pads. I touched them together to get the current going. I walked over to the one restrained and stood over him.

“Thank you.” This would be the last time someone like him escaped my hospital.

“No. Thank you.” He responded. But it wasn’t his voice!

“Because if you hadn’t fallen for this decoy, then Ryan might have actually been caught.”

“WHAT!?!” It was that purple one’s voice!

“Also, don’t worry about the stability of the universe. I did research and made calculations when Ryan first started coming here. If he is here on a permanent basis, then the universe will be fine.” I fell to my knees. How could I have not noticed something! He was too cooperative! I am an IDIOT!!!

“YOU CAN’T DO THIS!!” I screamed.

“I can, and I have.” She responded through his mouth.

“Thank you for destroying the portal. This will assure that no harm comes to Ryan or any of us. Good bye.” The doppelganger smiled then evaporated into a purple mist.

“NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!”