MlM

Chapter 5

Mind

"Speech"

(Sounds)

Thoughts

"[MACHINE voice]"

Twilight's POV

"You did what?!" I said.

Luna looked sad as she stared at the ground in shame. "I never wanted this to happen. I just wanted to show him that we were not just rulers, but kind, happy ones that can joke."

Celestia spoke up. "What happened is in the past, right now we have to deal with a more pressing situation."

"What's that princess?" Questioned Applejack.

"Raiden... Is in a coma. And we have to go and get him."

"What do you mean go and get him?" Asked Fluttershy. "Isn't he right here?" She gestured to the bed.

"Well yes and no." Said Luna. "We essentially have to travel into his mind to awaken him from his sleep."

The implications are dangerous. If we messed something up, it could leave Raiden as a vegetable.

Luna readied the mind walking spell. " is everypony ready?"

"Yeah!"

"Then let's go."

Raiden's mindscape

We found ourselves in an endless white space with a door made of a shiny metal, and Raiden standing in front of it. "Raiden!" I started running toward him, but Luna stopped me.

"That is not Raiden."

"What do you mean?" said Rainbow Dash. "Let's just grab him and get out of here."

"If only it were that simple, but we are not inside Raiden's mind yet. Raiden apparently has set up a sort of security system inside his mind in the form of a gatekeeper to his mind."

"So how do we get past it?"

"[You must fight.]"

A force field closed around me and the Raiden, trapping us together.

"Twilight!" Exclaimed my friends. "Luna! You hafta get us in there!" said Applejack.

"I'm sorry Applejack. This is Raiden's place. I have very little power here outside of creating constructs."

Rainbow rooted for me. "Come on Twilight! You can beat him!"

The Raiden's MACHINE then activated. "[Construct #3.5 Katana.]" He then pointed the sword at me. "[Prepare yourself.]"

My horn started to glow but then stopped. "I… I can't! I can't hurt my friend!"

"Twilight! It's not him!"

"I don't care! It's still part of him! I can't do it!" I yelled. "I'm sorry."

Raiden rushed towards me, blade forward.

I closed my eyes and waited… and waited… and waited? I opened my eyes and saw the blade an inch away from my throat, with Raiden's eyes glowing yellow.

He put the blade away and bowed.

"Wha- Why?"

"[You have proven yourself not a threat to Raiden's mind as you hold no aggression against him. I can detect that you have the power to easily defeat me, but you do not. That is why you are allowed entrance to his mind. After all, it's not about what you can do, but what you would do.]" He said as he looked over at the princesses.

He vanished and the door opened.

The field dropped and everypony came over to me.

"Way to go Twilight!" said Rainbow Dash.

"I'm glad you did the right thing in being peaceful." praised Celestia.

"Thanks everypony, now lets go get Raiden."

The inside of Raiden's mind was, to say the least, weird. It felt wrong to go through his mind. It was all white rooms {Think Apple store} that interconnected and you could go through one door, go back through the same door, and find yourself in a completely different place. We stayed in a group, so as to avoid getting lost.

"Where is Raiden's consciousness? Pinkie Pie… What is that?" Pinkie was balancing a multicolored ball on her head.

"I think it's the fun part of his personality." said Pinkie.

"How can you tell?"

"I read the plaque." to her left was an empty pedestal with a plaque that read, Fun.

"Pinkie you should probably put that back."

"Awww."

"Hey girls I found something!" said Applejack.

It was a large door covered in chains and padlocks, it was labeled Humanity.

"What do you think is in there, and why it's locked up?" Asked Rarity.

"I don't know. but it looks like we have to go through it to get any farther." I melted the locks off with my magic and we stepped inside.

Once inside we experienced chaos. Not even Discord's brand of chaos was as terrifying as the twister of horror that was the desires, regrets, and atrocities of human nature. However there was altruistic qualities that tried to make up for it, but in all, humans were mad.

When we made it out of that room, we were all shivering, even the princesses.

"How could somepony even-(gag)." said Luna.

"I knew he was holdin somethin back when we were asking him about humans, while we were takin him to ponyville." said Applejack.

"I saw it in his eyes, he was afraid of letting us know, he wanted to spare us the horror." I said. Fluttershy was still shaking. Poor Fluttershy.

There was another room with a white arrow pointing in a circle.

We looked inside and saw a switch labeled "shuffle". It was turned on.

"That doesn't look good." I walk over there and switch it off.

(BWOOOM)

"What the hay was that?"

We left the room and saw that there was now just a big hallway with doors on either side. each door was labeled with a different part of his mind. "Well this certainly makes things easier."

At the end of the hall, there was a golden door labeled "RAIDEN".

"This is it…" said Luna.

"Don't worry Raiden, we're coming to get you." said Rainbow.

We opened the door and stepped inside. Once there, we saw something weird.

"Two Raidens?" Exclaimed Rarity.

"[Incorrect.]", "Aia don't be rude."

"That's Mr. Aia?" said Celestia.

"[I am the manifestation of MRAIA inside of Raiden's mind.]"

"Man am I glad to see… oh no. You didn't."

"What's wrong Raiden?"

"Y-you entered the door… I can see it in Fluttershy…" He clasped his head. "No no no no…"

I tried to comfort him. "Raiden, it's-"

"Get away! You've seen what kind of a monster humans can be!"

I yelled. "But we've seen the good that they do too! When you protected Fluttershy! When you defended Rarity's name from Blueblood!"

He looked up. "You don't see me as a monster?"

I smiled. "Remember, It's not what you could do…"

"It's what you would do." We finished together.

"That's my line!" said Luna.

Everypony laughed.

"Come on Raiden, Let's go home."

Raiden glared at Luna. "No more shipping Twiden, alright?" he said.

"What's Twiden?"

"(Sigh.)"

AN: seriously though. No Twiden.