Chapters Revenge of the Slendermane
The Nightmare Begins Again
Twilight was rolling around in her bed trying to sleep. But inside her dreams she was in the Everfree forest. The trees were all the same and not a single pony was around. Her horn was glowing and she was saying,
"How did I get here? Where is everypony?"
She came across a tree and it had a page on it. It read:
CAN'T RUN
"Run from what?"
But she decided to take it and place it in her saddle bag and suddenly some music started playing.
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She was then getting a little scared and decided to continue going through the forest. Then just like a snap another page appeared and this time it read:
ALWAYS WATCHES NO EYES
Even a picture of some pony's head with x's crossing out the eyes. She was a little creeped out by this picture but took it off the tree and put it in her saddle bag and the thumping got a little louder. She then felt like she was being watched and looked behind her to see a tall white pony in a black suit and not face right behind and she took off running deeper into the forest. She then bumped into another tree that had another note on it that read:
DON'T LOOK... OR IT TAKES YOU
'Gee thanks for the advince.' The lavender unicorn thought and took the page and then more instruments started joining in.
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"This is getting even more weird." Twilight said. Suddenly the same white pony appeared right in front of her and she ran away as fast as her hooves could take her. She then came across a shed with another page on it that had a picture of the white pony by a tree and the word:
FOLLOWS
"He's following me?" Twilight asked.
None the less she levitated the page into her bag and then came across another page that read:
LEAVE ME ALONE
'Leave you alone? You're the one chasing me!' Twilight thought.
Then the music started getting even more scary.
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She was shaking and freaking out just like Fluttershy would. She then noticed the white pony appear again but she was trapped but the creature wasn't doing anything just, sort of, staring at her. But suddenly Twilight started to get a headache, her vision was geetting blury, she felt like throwing up and her nose was starting to bleed. She then decided to take off running and then she found another page that read:
HELP ME
'Okay suddenly I feel like somepony else wrote this.' The lavender unicorn thought and then took the page off and then immediately the tall white pony appeared again but this time Twilight got a good look at it.
"Lilly Slender? How are you still around?" She asked it.
The pony didn't respond and then suddenly black tendrils came out of it's back and lashed towards the lavender unicorn but she got out of the way and ran again. Immediately she found a giant red rock that had another page that didn't have any words but instead had a picture of the white pony around some trees, she took it off and then the thumping music began to get horrifying and a beeping sound was heard.
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"Uhhhh.... Sudenly I don't feel so well." Twilight said feeling like she was about to throw up and felt nausiating.
She then gathered the strength to continue walking when she found a final note. This time the white pony was standing tall and lots of words were around him:
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
'Too. Bad.' Twilight said cocky and got the page right off the tree and then the music stopped entirely.
"Huff puff huff puff. Looks like these pages are supposed to stop that mysterious Lily lookalike. Finally now to get out of here." She said and turned around and the white pony was right in front of her and her vision was getting even more blurier. But she could make out a stiched on smile appear and open up to reveal sharp, bloody fangs and it's tendrils wrapped around Twilight and the last thing she saw was the fangs bite onto her face and as darkness surrounded her vision.
Twilight awoke with a jolt and found that she was still in her bedroom and took a deep breath and said,
"It was just a dream."
She then saw that a portfolio was on her bed. She levitated it, opened it and read about something called: Project: Haunt. Apparently that Lily was in fact a journalist of some persuasion from an unknown group. She along with a group of other people were sent to a location to report suspicious activity at a power plant out in a forest. Upon arrival and during investigation, Lily and her team were marked for termination. As it turned out, the facility in question was utilizing suspicious chemicals and doing experimentation and illegal and dangerous behaviors, and Lily and co had discovered this function. In order to keep their secret safe, they terminated the investigation crew. Lily had managed to escape from the hunters, and hid inside of a bunker. The hunters decided it would be easier just to burn her alive, and set the bunker ablaze. Lily wasn't burnt alive but her face was and the chemicals inside the bunker caused her to become a faceless entity ghost and attack the facility and killed each and everypony of the group. Twilight was very confused.... She wasn't the captain of the royal guard? Why did Celestia lie to her? Or more importantly did she know about her transformation. Questions aside she knew she would have to ask Celestia and then she drifted back to sleep unaware that outside a tall shadowed figure was watching from afar.
Revenge of the Slendermane
Morning came up fast and Twilight invited her friends over to tell them about this Project: Haunt thing. As if time seemed to come by fast her friends came through the door.
"Okay sugercube what have you called us out here for?" Applejack asked.
"Yes, darling I was in the middle of making a dress for Sweetie belle." Rarity said.
"And I was practicing my super cool moves." Rainbow Dash said.
"I don't mind...... I just got done feeding the chickens." Fluttershy said.
"I was bored and didn't have anything to do so I thought that Twilight was planning a party. Where's the party supplies?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"This isn't a party. I called you here to discuss this..." Twilight said getting Haunt Portfolio.
"Project: Haunt? What in the name of horseapples is that?" The orange cowpony asked.
Twilight explained to her friends how Lily Slender was involved in that project and in turn was in fact transformed into the Slendermare not by a spell but by chemicals made by an unknown group.
"Oh my...... How could something so terrible happen to her?" The yellow pegasus asked.
"Wait a minute. Back up. Are you saying that Celestia didn't use a spell to transform her into the Slendermare?" The blue pegasus asked.
"I'm afraid so. And I can't tell if she knew about this and lied or if the Lily Slender in the portfolio is a different one." The lavender unicorn said,
"Plus I had the worst nightmare ever. I was in the Everfree Forest collecting pages of some weird drawings, there was this scary music, then what I thought was another Slendermare chasing me and I was getting super sick. When I found all eight pages the other Slendermare wrapped it's tendrils around me and opened it's mouth revealing scary, bloody fangs and the last thing I saw was it opening it's mouth and the fangs biting into my face and darkness."
The room then went silent and everypony was shaking with fear... even Pinkie.
"How dreadful." Rarity said.
"Now I've already arranged some tickets for the Friendship Express to Canterlot. There we will have to find out about this Project: Haunt. Are you in?" Twilight asked.
Everypony nodded and the six trotted outside.
When they got to the train station Twilight felt like she was being watched and looked over her shoulder and caught a quick glimpse of the tall white pony in her nightmare and disappear quickly. Suddenly she felt nausious again and light-headed.
"Darling are you quite alright?" The white unicorn asked.
"Uhhhh.... I don't know.... I feel light-headed." The lavender unicorn said.
Suddenly she felt sick, trotted over to a trash can and threw up in it. She then tried to trot but felt sick again and threw up in the trash can again. She then threw up two more times and then after the fifth time she fell unconscious.
Thirteen hours passed and Twilight hadn't woken up. The rest of the Mane Six were getting really worried. Eventually they hoped she'd wake up after dawn and hit the hay. The train drove through the plains soft like a sloft. Everypony was asleep and peaceful. However the shadow from underneath the door the passengers train came out and formed into a tall, white, faceless pony with a black suit and red tie on and a red circle with an x through it for a cutie mark. The faceless pony eyed the sleeping ponies and then laid it's face on the sleeping Twilight, it's target. The white pony trotted over to the lavender unicorn and then made a black tendril come out of his back and then wrapped it around Twilight's face, not her nose and mouth. Then the tendril started glowing a dark aura and it went over Twilight. She then started thrashing around and screaming things like, "HELP!!!!" and "GET AWAY!!!!" and "IT'S COMING!!!" A sewn on smile then went on the strange pony's face and felt his powers and strength grow.
'Perfect..... With every moment I absorb more of little Twily's powers and sanity. Soon I will have all of her powers and drive her insane. So says I... The Slendermane.' The pony thought. Then he heard the ponies starting to wake and then he stopped the process and then quickly disappeared at the same time Twilight awoke with a big time shock, breathing heavily and sweat dripping down her.
"Sugercube are you alright?" Applejack asked.
"*gasp* *gasp* *gasp* *gasp* I think so..... I had the same nightmare." Twilight said.
Everypony was then worried sick... If she kept having the same nightmare over and over something must have been very wrong.
When the Mane Six got to Canterlot they arrived at Canterlot Castle and went into the throne room. There sat Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
"Princess Celestia. Princess Luna." Twilight called out.
"My faithful student. What is the matter?" Celestia asked.
Twilight explained to the Princesses about her frightning nightmare and the strange white pony with no face. She then told them about her seeing the same pony at the train station and that it looked exactly like Lily Slender. Then she told them about having the same nightmare but was more frightning and more realistic.
"And that's pretty much it. So Princess Celestia did you know anything about Project: Haunt and that Lily Slender was involved in it?" Twilight asked.
"Project: Haunt?" Luna said confused.
Twilight levitated the scrapbook about Project Haunt out of her saddle bag and handed it over to the Princesses. After reading them the sun princess said,
"So Lily was a part of this Project: Haunt. According to the scrapbook it occured before Lily supposedly tried to overthrow me. So this must be the same Lily Slender I knew and this other white pony must be the alleged 'Slendermane.'"
"Slendermane?" Fluttershy asked confused.
"Allow me to explain." Princess Luna said.
A long time ago when me and Tia were still young and before you six were born there a kid named Charles Maneson Jr. He was a very shy pony who normally avoided contact with other fillies and barely spoke with his parents. He was always being made fun of because he didn't have his cutie mark. Everyday he'd always trot around Ponyville in the night to relax himself. I belive that the day I met him he was very sad. When he first laid his eyes on me he was surprised and at the same time confused.
"Princess Luna? What are you doing here?"
"I have heard your cries of pain in your darkest hours. I wish to help you."
"How could you help me? I'm just a no good blank flank."
"Do not let that get you down. You will one day learn your special talent and you'll show the ones who made fun of you they were wrong."
"*sniff* *sniff* You really think so?"
I then put my hoof around him and said,
"I know so."
Months passed and the little filly felt more confident and did every possible thing in the book to earn his cutie mark. However one day I heard his cries of anger, frustration and sadness. The little Charles was arguing with his parents who thought that he might never get his cutie mark and told him to stop doing dangerous things. However the little Charles just ran off into the Everfree Forest and never came back out. Pretty soon fillies, mares and stallions were getting sick, disappeared or found dead. Me and Tia were getting very worried.... Who could be behind these atrocities. One of our royal guards reported strange things from the Everfree Forest. Tia sensed it as well and said to get the Elements of Harmony. When we arrived at the Everfree Forest and the middle of it we felt a dark, evil force. Then out of nowhere a tall white pony wearing a black suit and red tie appeard out of nowhere. It's face was completey blank... no eyes, mouth, nose, ears or hair and it's cutie mark was a red circle with an x through it.
"What kind of creature are thou?"
"......."
"Thou shall answer me right now stranger."
"..... You don't recognize me Luna?"
Suddenly the strange pony shrank down to the size of the filly and it transformed before my very eyes. What I saw was a shock.
"Charles Maneson Jr.?"
"That's right Princess."
The little filly then transformed back into the white pony.
"It's me... And I finally found what I was special for. Actually... The Everfree Forest made me realize it."
"What happened to you?"
"I shall answer you in slightest terms. When I ran away from home I was extremely sad. Not only had every filly at school thought I couldn't find my talent but my own parents. They rejected me. I then felt so angry... I wanted to get back at them..... For turning their backs on me. Then I heard the Everfree Forest speak to me.... It told me it would help me.... Suddenly a giant red circle with an x through it went around me. Suddenly I felt a dark evil power flow through me. Suddenly I grew taller, my face disappeared, a black suit with a red tie came on me and then when I looked at my flank and a dark flash was on it... I then realized the forest was giving me my cutie mark and when it appeared it was a red circle with an x through it. Then I realized what my talent and destiny was. I was able to use dark, evil powers even though I was an earth pony and I would use them to gain my revenge against the accursed the ponies of Ponyville for deserting me. And I will have it.
"Charles this isn't right... Not at all."
"Charles Maneson Jr. is dead. You may now refer to me as Slendermane."
"Lulu. I'm afraid we might not have a choice. Use your element against him."
"But.... I can't....... There might still be some good in him."
"Really? Well maybe I'll change your mind.... Right. After. THIS!!!"
He then attacked us but we dodged in time. We fought valiantly but our powers were equal but his were more powerful.... We were no match for him. Then I realized we had no choice. My sister and I then concentrated our magic into the Elements and then focussed it onto the Slendermane. But before he disappeared into nothingness as our magic tore him to pieces he shouted,
"THIS ISN'T OVER!!!! ONE DAY I WILL RETURN AND EXACT MY REVENGE ON YOU. WHEN AN UNEXPECTED FILLY MAKES HIS OR HER WAY INTO THE EVERFREE.... I WILL HUNT HIM OR HER AND GET STRONGER!!!!! THEN WHEN I'M FULLY CHARGED I WILL RETURN AND RIP YOU TO PIECES!!!!! MARK MY WORRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!!!!!!!!
Then the Elements took effect and he exploded in a white veil.
"And that was the last we ever heard of him." Princess Luna finished.
Then the Mane Six noticed that she had tears running down her face. Celestia then put her wing around her and said,
"I know he meant a lot to you but he was consumed by his rage and darkness and the curse mark."
"Curse Mark?" Twilight said confused.
"A curse mark is kind of like a cutie mark... except it only appears on somepony who feels the need for darkness, evil and revenge. When the curse mark appears on somepony they are instantly consumed by evil and can't be changed. The last curse mark we saw was on Sir Phoenix Fawkes, a pony who rebelled against Equestria and tried to bring it to it's knees.... his curse mark was of a black rose which symbolized a traitor. When he died we though we'd heard the last of the curse marks... until that faithful night. Now you know the truth." Celestia finished.
"Suddenly that Slendermane brings me back to my fillyhood. One day when I was young I wanderd into the Everfree Forest trying to get a cutie mark for camping. I then discoverd a paper... one of those papers in my dream... and took it off. I then heard these drum noises, I looked behind me and saw the Slendermane. I was so scared. It then let loose one of his tendrils towards me and I ran back home. I told my parents but they didn't believe me and told me that the Slendermare was just an old foals tale to get fillies to behave. But I knew he was real and ever night when I slept I kept having nightmares about him. Then came the day I auditioned for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. After the huge magic surge and when Celestia helped me and brought me under her wing the nightmares stopped completely. The lavender unicorn explained.
"Hm.... That magic surge must of weakened Slendermane so much it caused him to disappear for a thousand years." Luna said,
"But when Lily Slender attacked it seemed that the fear she inflicted in Twilight must have been powerful enough for him to awaken from his deep slumber in the Everfree. Until we find a way to stop him you six are more then welcome to stay here. I'll make sure those nightmares don't bother you."
Luna then trotted over to Twilight and made her horn glow. She touched her horn on Twilight and a magical surge went through her.
"Now you won't have any trouble sleeping tonight." She said.
"Thank you Princess Luna." Twilight said.
That night everypony was asleep and outside Twilight's room the Slendermane snuck in and trotted up to Twilight. He then wrapped his tendril around Twilight's face and attempted to invade her mind with nightmares again. However he was suddenly flung into the wall and heavily weakened.
'Uhhh.... It appears your magic has made me unable to invade her dreams Luna..... Hm hm... However there is however a Plan B..... With the power I've taken from her now I shall destroy you and your little ponies and then take over Equestria.' Slendermane thought to himself and then disappeared.
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"Are you sure about this?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Yes I'm sure." Scootaloo said.
"Really? Getting our cutie marks.... for tree climbing? In the Everfree Forest?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Yes." The orange filly said.
"But remember last time?" The white filly asked.
"We won't go so far into the Everfree just three or four feet in." Scootaloo reassured.
"Well if you say so." The yellow filly said.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders then traveled into the Everfree Forest and looked out for any monsters or dangerous creatures that might attack. They then found a nice tree.... that didn't look anything like the other trees. It was very old and it didn't have any leaves.
"Let's climb this one. I'll go first." Scootaloo said.
She then jumped onto the bark and tried climbing up it but suddenly the tree started glowing a dark aura and Scoot was forced off and into her friends. The tree then started changing and it morphed into a tall white, faceless pony in a dark suit with a red tie and a circle with an through it for a cutie mark.
"Lily Slender?" Sweetie asked.
"No. Slender Mane." The tall pony said.
"What do y'all want with us?" Apple Bloom asked.
"You're going to help me destroy the Elements of Harmony and the Princesses." Slender Mane said menacingly.
"Why would we help you with an evil plan? There's no way in the name of Celestia and Luna are we helping you." Scootaloo said.
"Oh you're not helping me willingly. Heh heh heh...." Slender Mane went.
Suddenly a sewn on smile appeared on him and it opened to reveal bloody fangs. He then produced three tendrils and grabbed the CMC. Then a red aura went onto them and mist went around them and their shadowed selves showed them being shocked and suddenly getting larger and when they fell onto the ground something surprising happened.... the three had been turned into grown-ups like all the other ponies. And then a black light went on their flanks and then the same circle and x on Slender Mane appeared on them.
"Rise." The tall pony said.
The three ponies then got up wearily and when they opened their eyes they had become completely black. They then bowed down to Slender Mane and said,
"Command us.... Master."
"Heh... I like that." The tall pony said.
He then reached inside his suit and pulled out three boxes and threw them near the CMC. When they opened them there were black hoodies with the circle with an x on them, black boots and three masks.
"Put those on." Slender Mane commanded.
The CMC did what they were told and put on the offical clothes of a proxy.
"Now you will follow my every command without hesitation or questions. You will help me in my conquest to destroy the accursed Celestia and Luna." The white pony said.
"As you wish our dark lord." The Cutie Mark Proxies said.
Then a smile went on the Slendermane and he said,
"Excellent..... However we our not done..... Our army needs to grow, grow and grow. And when we are powerful enough.... Then we shall be able to take on the accursed Princesses."
"Who shall we seek?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Who shall join us?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Who shall gain the privelage of joining our army?" Scootaloo asked.
"Follow me and you shall have the answers." Slendermane said.
The four then galloped into the forest to make their army of darkness grow.
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"Accursed ponies. Make us look bad." Rover said.
"They tricked us." Spot said.
"I wish that Rarity would've just stopped wining." Fido said.
The Diamond Dogs were still angry about their defeat by the ponies and were pouting. Suddenly Rover's nose smelled something.
"I smell something. *sniff* *sniff* Pony. But... *sniff* *sniff* This pony is not normal." The diamond dog said.
Suddenly out of nowhere the Slendermane appeared out of nowere.
"What are you?!" The lead diamond dog said.
A stiched smile appeared on the tall white ponies face.
"I'm your worst nightmare." He said.
"Guards!!!!" The three dogs shouted.
Immediately diamond dogs wearing armour appeared and charged towards the Slendermane. However they were quickly dispatched by the tall pony's tendrils.
"This pony is a monster!!!" Spot shouted.
"Indeed I am. And I need you three and your army in my army against the Princesses and their accursed Elements of Harmony." The tall white pony said.
"We have no beef with the princesses." Rover said,
"We just want diamonds."
"And you can have all the diamonds you want if you help me." Slendermane said.
Immediately the diamond dogs eyes turned into diamonds and they barked in agreement.
"Meet me at night time outside of Canterlot Castle and our takeover can begin." The tall pony said.
He then disappeared as the diamond dogs day dreamed about all the diamonds they wanted.
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Enlisting Two Snobbish Ponies
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were walking home from a long day at school. Yet today felt.... different. The Cutie Mark Crusaders or blank flanks weren't there.
"It just..... wasn't the same without those blank flanks." Diamond said.
"It's like a piece of us was missing." Silver said.
The two sighed heavily and suddenly night time was falling fast for some reason.
"Is Princess Luna working overtime?" Diamond asked.
"I don't know." Silver said.
Suddenly they felt like something was watching them. They turned around and were freaked out by the sight in front of them. The Slender Mane. They tried to run away but they held to the ground by three ponies in dark clothes and masks.
"There's no use trying to run my little ponies. Your going to be in my army against the Princesses whether you want to or not." The tall white pony.
He then wrapped his tendril around the two snobbish ponies and then made the same red aura appear onto them and the same lightning effect and the age growing spell. He then ceased his spell and watched the two fall to the ground. Then a black flash went onto the two's cutie marks and replaced the Tiara and Spoon with the circle with an x through it. The two then got up on their hooves and opened their eyes revealing dark, black orbs.
"Master, why have you enlisted them?" Apple Bloom asked.
"They have been causing trouble for us for months." Sweetie Belle said.
"Why have them join our army?" Scootaloo asked.
"Because I did a special proxification. Now instead of bothering you.... they will be loyal and serving to you." Slendermane said.
"What shall we do for you masters?" Diamond Tiara asked.
"Your wish is our command." Silver Spoon said.
The two then bowed to the Cutie Mark Proxies.
"Yes they will do what you want and they won't ask for anything in return." Slendermane said.
He then passed them Proxy costumes and they got into them.
"Just a couple more and we will be unstoppable. And the Princesses will tremble beneath our power." The tall white pony said.
The six ponies then quickly vanished into thin air to gain more members for their army.