The soft rays of the morning sun grac—oh never mind. Let's just skip those lame and boring intros.
It was morning. Sky was clear. Ponyville citizens trotted here and there and everywhere. And oh, a purple pony stood in front of the Golden Oaks Library's wooden door. There! Now we can start the story.
Said purple pony was none other than Princess Twilight Sparkle.
Although a princess, the citizens of Ponyville appeared to be...ignoring her, as they continued moving along the earthy roads and pathways to their destination. A visiting pony from another city would be shocked at the ignorance of the town's citizens, but Twilight, after being crowned Equestria's new princess, spent two whole months trying to convince the townsponies to still treat her like they always did. She preferred it that way.
Anyway, with a smile, she took a breath, and exhaled, and then, with magic, she ope—the door's locked. She arched an eyebrow. Oh well, nothing like a simple lock-picking spell can't handle. Hearing a click!, she then pushed the door open, and immediately, the smell of old paper struck her nostrils. Oh, how she missed that stinky smell.
“Spike! I'm home!”
“Gaaahhh!” somedragon gasped in shock, and immediately, there was a series of loud clicking noises.
“Spike?” Twilight called, trotting towards the stairs where she could see the frantic baby dragon on the second floor near the stairs, furiously clicking onto something.
Hearing the alicorn trotting up the stairs, Spike ignored the stinging sweat that ran on his eyes as he jumped off of his seat, and pulled the plug. As soon as the monitor screen died, Twilight reached the second floor wearing a curious frown.
“What are you doing?”
“Uh,” Spike gulped, and quickly threw the AVR's plug to the wooden floor.
“And why are you sweating like that?” she asked, looking around. “Is the AC broken again?” She returned her attention to the nervous baby dragon. “And why are you still wearing the headphones?”
“Uh... Eheheheh...” he chuckled nervously as he removed the headphones and placed them on his chair. He wiped a claw on his sweaty forehead. “Um...welcome home?”
“‘Welcome home’ indeed,” Twilight rolled her eyes before turning around and trotted back down the stairs. “I hope you made some breakfast Spike, 'cause I'm really starving...”
Spike sighed in great relief that he wasn't caught by her. He eyed his year-old computer with a soft glare. “One day, you're gonna put me in trouble...” With that, he hurried down the stairs after his sister. “I left some pancakes in the oven. I wonder if they're still hot though...”
During their breakfast, somepony knocked on the door. Spike opened it, and on the other side was the mail delivering crewponies, with a large brown box beside their four-wheeled van. Spike signed some papers, and the ponies brought the box inside the library, said their goodbyes, and rode their van to deliver some other things to other ponies in town.
“Oh!” Twilight poked her head from the dining area to see what it was. Noticing the box, she smiled wide. “Derpy Deliveries really are fast!” She swallowed the last of her pancakes, and walked towards the box as she chewed.
Spike was reading the paper that was given to him. “Wow Twilight! You bought a new PC!”
“Of course!” Twilight beamed as she used her magic to open the box and carefully levitated the contents. “I did say so last week that I'm going to buy another one. We can't share one PC, I'm afraid.”
“No kidding...” Spike mumbled to himself.
“So, you want the old one or this new one.”
“Old one!” Spike immediately replied. “I uh...kinda grew...attached to the old one... Eheheheh...”
“Oh, uh, okay then,” Twilight smiled. “Would you mind helping me set this up?”
Spike smiled.
The new PC stood proudly beside Twilight's bed. With the flick of the switch, the PC booted up, and Twilight sat on her bed, facing her new PC that finally displayed her desktop.
“Now to figure out what the fuss is about...” she mumbled to herself as she used her magic to move her mouse to point at the internet browser. Double clicking with magic, a new window opened, and she magically typed the topic she wanted to research about.
“About what, Twi?” Spike asked, moving a piece of the hearphone behind his ear so he could listen to the alicorn while still be able to hear the sounds of the LoL match he was busy with. He gritted his teeth when his avatar accidentally stepped on another invisible mushroom bomb, killing his avatar instantly. “Damn it! Those things need to be nerfed!”
“Still playing that game, I see...” Twilight chuckled. “Does that game even have a finish line? You've been repeating that very same area ever since I bought that computer.”
Spike ignored her. No matter how many times he explains the game, Twilight seemed to forget about it by next week. So why bother? Instead, he chose to ask her something while waiting for his avatar to respawn. “Anyway, so why did you bought a new PC other than us being able to own one?”
“Well, I sent you a letter about Rainbow Dash who suddenly decided to check up on me during one of the inventions conventions in Manehattan, right?”
“Yeah, that was on Tuesday, I think...”
“Well, she kept talking and talking about this new game called ‘monsters in your pockets’ or something, and she—”
“You mean Pokémon?” Spike interrupted.
“Uh, yeah, that. Anyway, she kept talking and talking about how cool the ‘monsters’ were, these different types and battle mechanic and strategy and some other things... Long story short, many ponies in the convention heard her, and before I knew it, the inventions convention turned into a ‘ask Rainbow Dash about Poke-a-mon’ and kept asking for her friend invites...”
“Well...”
“Ah, here it is.”
“You found it? Good! Now to concentrate on the game.”
“Let's see here...”
The page was flashy, yet simple at the same time. Twilight's no newb of the computer or internet, by the way, so she immediately clicked on the ‘Game Overview’ of the page. Once the page was loaded, Twilight immediately began reading it.
“Okay... Pokémon MMORPG... Introduction... Pokémon MMORPG is an online role-playing free-to-play game wherein players are to train the wide variety of monsters called ‘Pokémon’. Trainers, that's you player!, can collect to as many creatures as they want, but can only carry six creatures during their travel. Each trainer's main goal is to train monsters, collect the eight badges of different regions, and compete and win in the region's Pokémon Tournament League. What's more, trainers can interact with other online trainers! You and a friend, or a random stranger, can compete, trade, and party with each other as you explore the mysterious world of Pokémon. Meh, sounds boring...”
“Don't knock it 'til you try it!”
“AHH!!!” Twilight jumped, startled.
Rainbow Dash laughed. “Oh Celestia, you should have seen your face Twilight!”
“R-Rainbow Dash!? When did you get here?”
“Oh, just a few minutes ago, through the usual,” she shrugged.
Twilight looked up, and saw an open window, where her pet owl was sleeping on the frame.
Rainbow sat on the bed and leaned to the monitor. “Neat! So, you gonna try it?”
“Uh, no... It doesn't really...” she paused when Rainbow Dash suddenly pouted. “...um...it doesn't...really...” sparkly eyes. Twilight groaned. “Ugh, fine!”
“Yes!” Rainbow punched the air in victory. “A new trainer buddy! This is gonna be so so awesome!” She wrapped a hoof on Twilight's neck and pulled her into a half-hug. “Just don't be as pathetic as Fluttershy and Rarity, okay Twilight?”
“They play this game?”
“Well of course!” Rainbow grabbed the mouse and clicked the ‘Download’ link, and waited for the page to load. “It's like, the popular game ever!”
Twilight rolled her eyes. Leave it to Rainbow Dash to know all about the cool and awesome and popular games around.
“AJ and Pinkie are great trainers,” the pegasus said as she clicked the ‘Download and Install’ button. “Rarity and Fluttershy, on the other hoof, are very lame... I mean, come on!” she groaned as she clicked the many ‘Yes’-es buttons and checkboxes and other stuff ‘normal’ ponies never actually read. “Rarity only goes online to advertise her dresses, and Fluttershy's busy ‘spreading the word’ that capturing and training Pokémon are animal cruelty. I mean, come on! It's just a game of pixels and...other pixels! It's not like it can harm real life animals or something!”
Rainbow Dash finally let go of the mouse when the installing window appeared, displaying that the game is being downloaded while installed at the same time. She tossed a smile at her purple friend, and blinked when she noticed her blank expression.
“Er...” she chuckled awkwardly. “Sorry if I ranted, Twi.”
“It's...no problem?”
“But as I was saying,” Rainbow lied down on the bed on her back, and let out a relaxed sigh. “Those two are boring to play with. Applejack's awesome. Sure, she advertises her farm products like a gold seller, but she's a very good partner in adventuring! And she has an awesome lineup of Pokémon! Pinkie, in the other hoof, is crazy! I mean, I can bet that she can beat an entire Elite Four with one Magikarp! Really though, she uses random lineups, and can still stay awesome!” She chuckled, and then turned to see Twilight's confused smile. “You have no idea what I'm talking about, huh?”
“W-well uh...”
“Look, Twi,” Rainbow sat up, and placed her hoof on the alicorn's shoulder. “It's a great game! Trust me. You're gonna love it.”
“W-well... Um...”
The two ponies heard a ‘successful’ tone from Twilight's speakers. The two ponies turned and saw a ‘congratulatory’ messaged pop-up on the monitor screen.
Rainbow blinked. “Wow Twi. You must have a crazy good connection! Took me almost two hours to download the game back in my place.” She then flapped her wings, and hovered in the air. “Anyway, I better head to the weather HQ. Don't wanna be late!” she angled herself at the open window. “We can play after my morning shift, Twi! I think I can only spare an hour today before I head to the Wonderbolt Academy. But tomorrow's Sunday! No work and school, so we can go and train together for one whole day!” She brought a hoof to her chin. “Unless if there's another stupid giant monster rampaging in a random city like last week...” She shook her head. “Anyway, as the great trainer always say, smell ya later!”
Rainbow then flew out of the window like a bullet, startling the owl awake.
“Wow...” Twilight shook her head with a smile. “I've never seen her so happy and excited for a long time!” She then returned her attention to her computer. “Well, okay then. I'll give this game a shot.”
“If you have questions, Twilight, you can ask me,” Spike said without removing ninety-eight percent of his attention from the game, despite the fact that his team were clearly going to lose. They already lost all of their towers, while the other team still have...everything. “I play that game once in a while, so yeah.”
“Thanks Spike,” Twilight smiled as she hit the ‘play’ button.