The pink pony bounced happily around Sugar Cube Corner. She lit the fire in the fireplace and placed four mats on the floor in front of it.
“Let’s see,” she said, “one, two, three, four. Plus me is fi-”
Her counting was interrupted by the singsong of the doorbell.
“Coming,” the pinkie pony called happily.
Throwing open the door, she saw one of her bestest friends ever.
“Hi, Pinkie,” the blue pegasus said, flinging her rainbow hair around, “Brr. It’s cold out tonight.”
“Hi Dashie, come in,” Pinkie said, “Wait right here, I need to get another mat. “
She trotted up the stairs to where the mats were kept. Dash walked in and sat on the mat closest to the fire.
“Hey Pinkie?” Dash called.
Pinkie poked her head around the corner at the top of the stairs, a blue mat hanging from her mouth.
“Yesh?” Pinkie said, her voice muffled by said mat in her mouth.
“How many ponies are you expecting?”
“Jush five.” she said as she carefully walked backwards down the steps.
She set the mat down next to Rainbow Dash and pushed the others mats closer together so as to be nearer to the fireplace. She plopped down on one right as the doorbell rang again.
“Coming,” Pinkie sang as she stood up and trotted to the door.
She opened it and was presented with two shaking little fillies.
“Hi P-P-pinkie. Can-n we c-come in? Its c-cold.” said the small, purple maned, orange filly.
“Sure thing, Scootaloo,” Pinkie chirped, moving out of the doorway.
“You two need blankets,” she said. Pinkie walked to the closet where mats, blankets, pillow, etc… were stored. Grabbing five blankets, one for each guest, she trotted over to the shivering fillies and draped two of the blankets over them. The others she put on the mats.
Rainbow snatched one and sat back down.
“Thanks,” spoke up a white unicorn.
“Your welcome, Sweetie Belle. Wow it must be REALLY cold out for you guys not to be crusading!” Pinkie chided as she stepped outside. She instantly jumped back in and shut the door and took back what she just said.
An orange pony with a blonde mane and tail pushed against the wind as she made her way to Sugarcube Corner. She knocked and, after a while, Pinkie opened the door.
“Thanks, sugar cube. Ah nearly froze my tail off,” AppleJack said as she entered the bakery.
“Okie Dokie Lokie, that’s everypony. Let’s get STARTED!” Pinkie interrupted, running over to the music player. Suddenly, loud music filled the room and Pinkie burst out into dance.
After lots of dancing and snacking, they sat down on the mats, satisfied.
“Hey guys, guess what I got,” Pinkie said.
“What?” asked Sweetie.
“A new game,” she said as a mad grin attached itself to her face, “Wanna play?”
“Sure, what’s it called?” replied Dashie.
“Minecraft.”
“Minecraft? What’s that?” asked AJ.
“I dunno. Someone just left a copy of it on the table in the shop. It looked fun so I decided to try it with you guys. It did say that it had multiplayer”
All of a sudden, Pinkie noticed something terribly wrong. “Oh no, AppleJack! Your hat!”
“What about it?”
“You're not wearing it,” she deadpanned.
“Ah took it off, the wind might have taken it away.” Applejack replied offhoofedly.
“Oh, okie dokie lokie. Lets play Minecraft.”
The five mares started up the game and crowded around the computer.
‘How many of you are playing?’ the screen read.
“Five.” Pinkie replied out loud.
“Eh, Pinkie, I think it wants us to type it in,” said Rainbow.
“Oh ya. Silly me,” said Pinkie, as she giggled and typed ‘5’ into the box.
Pressing enter, the screen refreshed itself and showed five empty text boxes with the words ‘Pick your Username(s)’ above it.
“Me first, please,” said Sweetie.
Pinkie moved aside to let her type.
“Okay, so that’s Sweetie, then me, than Dashie, then AJ, then Scootaloo,” Pinkie said.
“What? Why am I last?” Scootaloo whined.
Pinkie sympathized and revised what she said, “Fine. Sweetie, then Scootaloo, than Dashie, then AJ, then me.”
Seeing they were satisfied, they took their turns to input their usernames. When they were done the screen now read:
Pick your username(s)!
1 Sweetie_Belle_Rocks_22378
2 RD_is_20_percent_cooler_than_you
3 Dashie_The_Great552
4 AppleJack5782
5 ThePartyPony668
When the computer was satisfied what each box had a name. A button appeared beside each that read, ‘Play.’
“Well, you read it girls. Time to play!” declared Pinkie as clicked the one beside her chosen alias.
“ThePartyPony668 had joined the game: Multiplayer. CCraft: version 1.6.4” said an eerie, synthesized voice that came from the computer.
Sweetie and AppleJack, likewise, pressed play.
“Sweetie_Belle_Rocks_22378 has joined the game: single player: Creative Mode. Cheats. version 1.6.4” the voice said, followed by, “AppleJack5782 Has join the game: Single player: Survival mode. No cheats. version 1.6.4”
Scootaloo then pressed her play button
The voice announced that “RD_is_20_percent_cooler_than_you has joined the game: Multiplayer: CCraft: version 1.6.4”
With every push of ‘Play’, the voice seemed to get more eerie. However, since the ponies were too engrossed on what the game could posibly be, they didn’t notice this.
“Guess it’s my turn,” said Rainbow Dash as she clicked play.
“Dashie_The_Great552 has joined the game: Single player: Survival Mode: Cheats. version 1.6.4”
Suddenly, the voice, or rather, many voices, cried out, “Starting game! Preparing to send players to worlds.”
It was then that Dash got sucked into the computer. Pinkie, AJ, Sweetie and Scootaloo could only stare in shock at what happened. They didn’t have to stare too long though as they were also pulled into the screen.
With the room now empty, yellow eyes formed upon the fire in the hearth. Slowly, the snake like body of the draconequus named Discord formed and stood in front of the computer.
He had the widest grin on now.
“Ohohoho! Now this is going to be interesting,” he said as he picked up his ‘personal’ copy of the game that he left behind. “So this is where I left this silly thing.”