Part 2: Chapter 8:
Beta stood in horror as his dream transformed into a black room. Feeling claustrophobic, he did what he could, firing bolt after bolt of extreme magic at the wall he was facing. But each bolt fired, he felt more and more closed in to the point of where he stopped firing. Exhausted he stopped and looked around, looking for another way out. He began to turn around when the room exploded in memories; his memories. He watched as screens of memories flew past him, filled of bullying, of pain, of hate, of depression.
"NO!" He screamed in fury and fear. With a new filled energy of magic, he began shooting each screen, destroying each memory. But with each screen destroyed, another 50 popped up, until the point where he could literally drown in memory.
"What is wrong, Beta?" A voice called out from the screens. "I thought you liked pain, thought you liked hurting others." The screens flew away, showing Nova, his white eyes glowing in the darkness. "You don't like being in pain?"
"Why would I?"
"Then why did you hurt others?"
"Did?" Beta chuckled. "You sound like I stopped hurting others."
"Is it for revenge or do you feel justified about what you do, like its right the way you do it but not others?"
"Hey, now you listen. I only hurt them because I had to, they wouldn't have listened if I just told them to stop. Sadly you don't know any of that because your daughters destroyed all mutants after one of them went insane."
"All you know is Violence."
"ALL I KNOW IS PAIN!" The room erupted in flames. In the middle stood Beta, his hair and eyes glowing, tears of pain and anger streamed down his face. "THAT'S ALL I HAVE EVER KNOWN. DON'T YOU FUCKING GET IT? BECAUSE OF YOUR DAMNED DAUGHTERS I HAVE BEEN IN PAIN MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE! BOTH MORTAL AND SPIRTUAL LIFE. AND NOT JUST ME! THE OTHERS; DELTA, GAMMA, CHARLIE, ALPHA, ZETA ARE JUST TO NAME A FEW WHO SUFFERED BECAUSE OF YOUR FUCKING OFFSPRING." He screamed in what seemed to anger, rage or fury, possibly the three combined.
Nova held up his hoof in a gesture of peace, but peace was anything but what Beta saw.
"I had to fucking kill them! I knew it was suicide, I knew I wouldn't last a life time what I was, so I decided to bring them with me! And you come here and try to BLAME ME!? As if it was all my fucking fault that I got angry! That I could just fucking ignore them and go about my life all happy and free! I tried to FUCKING ignore them, at first I did. But after 4 years of straight up bullying, being beat up and hated, no pony or fucking human can be sane after that!"
Nova began to back up as he realized how deep he had gotten himself in. "Calm down, Beta. That isn't what I meant."
Beta did not respond. He fell silent, but continued to glare at Nova, his glowing eyes piercing the darkness. They occasionally flickered as he blinked. Nova could hear Beta breath heavily, in and out forcefully, his anger still raging within.
"How do you keep all this anger and pain within you?" Nova asked in awe.
No response.
"Beta?" Nova asked aloud.
Beta continued to glare at Nova in fury and rage, but abiding his time.
"Beta?"
After what seemed like an hour of pure silence, Beta spoke. His tone of voice could catch Satan off guard and send him running back to hell like a coward would run from the sound of a gun firing. It seemed to counter Nova's, giving off a sense of rage and pain, anger and sadness, fury and depression at once. "What do you want?"
"I am here to talk. To help."
"Piss off."
"I'm from a very far place from here. I want to help you."
Nova saw Beta's head twitch and knew he fucked up.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Beta screamed as he forcefully pushed Nova out of his mind. With the enemy gone, Beta slowly relaxed and fell back asleep.
