The mage, the inventor, and the explorer

by Jonny Bench


First encounter

It was a normal day in ponyville. The daily monster attack had been easily warded off, the market was packed with ponies, and school was in session. Everything was as peaceful as can be, that is until a strange light appears over the Everfree forest and drops three objects into the forest below. Twilight not only saw it, but also felt it, leading her to believe that a strong magical foe had been unleashed upon Equestria. Without Celestia warning her. Again. Hearing the sound of hooves rapidly approaching from her left, she turns to see Starlight come running towards her with a serious look on her face only aided in confirming her fears.
“Twilight, did you feel that?”

“I did Starlight, we have to get the others if we want to get the situation under control.”

“I’ll get Applejack and Pinkie, you get Rainbow and Rarity. We can meet by Fluttershy’s.”

“Agreed. We have to hurry, with a magical presence this strong, I doubt whatever that thing is won’t take long to start to attack.”
(One Plot device due to lazy writing later)
“Alright everypony, you know the drill. There’s some kind of magical threat out there and we have to stop it. I take lead, Starlight’s will teleport us out in case we need to regroup. Any questions?”
Twilight says, gaining only grim faces in return.
“Alright. In that case, let’s move out!”
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Meanwhile, in the forest

“Ugh, my head. What happened” Him says as he stands up with a start. “Wait, why do I have a headache, that’s not a potion effect, and I’m actually talking? Something’s fishy’s going on.”
Suddenly, from a bush, Him hears something

“Yo, little help hear?” In a deep voice he can only assume belongs to one of his friends.
“Hold up, what the hell is going on here. I shouldn’t need help getting out of a bush, and i definitely shouldn’t be able to hear either of our voices right now. Is this some kind of prank dude?”

Lucifer says as Him helps him to his feet.
“I don’t know what’s going on, but we should find Jonny.”

“Dude, up here!”
A voice calls from above them
“Seems like we can fly again here. No clue where we are though.”

Him and Lucifer start to look around, noticing that actual leaves were falling from the trees and that their armor looked far different. Him’s armor had lots more spikes than before, and each one looked razor sharp instead of blocky. A light shimmer emanated from the armor’s surface.Lucifer’s armor, on the other hand, had dark pants, boots and helmet and the chest piece was a vibrant yellow with a glowing gem in the center. A light hum came from it. They both look at their friend, noticing his robes billowing in the wind, and… a shadow being cast beneath him?
“Okay, something must be going on. I know I didn’t install any shaders.” Him says

“Agreed, although this looks more realistic than shaders. Just look at the trees, they don’t look blocky whatsoever and they have branches.” Lucifer agrees

“Guys, I’m pretty sure we aren’t in minecraft anymore.” Jonny says

“What makes you think that?”

“Because my celestial recall wand focus won’t work and my wand is fully charged.”

“Well then, looks like we’re stuck here until we can find a way back. We need to gather resources to start up a base. What does everyone have?” Lucifer asks

“I have my draconic armor, staff of power, charm of dislocation, two charged capacitorsand golden bag of holding, which is filled with food.” Him says

“I have pretty much the same, what about you jonny?” Lucifer replies

“Lets see. I have my ichorium wand, fully charged, glass, slabs, obsidian, my alchemical capped tainted wand, also charged, all of my wand foci, my thaumonomicon, a bucket, six enchanted golden apples, my awoken ichorium armor and pick axe, my osmotic enchanter, a healing axe, some magical crops seeds, my thaumium cleaver, my bottomless pouch and of course my transvetic dislocater.” jonny replies

“You carry all of that around with you?!?” Him shouts

“Not usually the glass, slabs, second wand, or obsidian. I only have them from the time i captured a hungry node, definitely not worth the trouble unless you can contain it. Oh yeah, i also have a stack of cryostableised flux ducts and three charged resonant energy cells.”

“Why do you have those!” Lucifer screams

“You guys haven’t seen my base recently, have you?” Jonny asks, being met with two shaking heads. “Looks like I’ll need to show you around when we get back home.”

“Still doesn’t explain the enchanter.” Lucifer replies with a stern look

“I was moving things around before your told me about the portal. I’m glad I have it now though. We get to start off with better enchanting at least.” Jonny replies

“Alright then. You do have a point, we’ll need every advantage we can get while we’re here. We better get going though, I don’t want to be stuck outside in new territory at night. We don’t know what lives out here.” Him says to his friends. They nod in agreement as they start to head out and gather resources. However, before they get very far, a loud rustle is heard coming from the bushes to their North. Suddenly, seven multicolored ponies jump out in front of them, causing jonny to realize where they were. Before he can introduce himself however, the purple horse with wings and a horn starts to speak to them.

“Alright you ancient abominations of evil and darkness, surrender or be harmonized.”
Jonny tries to speak again, but is cut off by Lucifer as he says

“Holy shit, a talking technicolor horse. What the hell is going on here!”
Jonny face palms as the horse, seemingly mad, says

“Alright girls, we gave them their chance. Lets beat em!”

Suddenly, the midget horses are enveloped in a bright light, with rainbows shooting off of them in every direction. Jonny, knowing what may happen next, rushes in front of his friends and places a small barrier made out of obsidian and wards it with his wand, rendering them indestructible. Immediately after he does this though, the ponies fire a large rainbow colored beam right at them, however it doesn't penetrate the barrier that jonny set in place. When the ponies stop their attack to see what effect they had, they are surprised to see a wall of obsidian blocking their path. Starlight fires an explosion spell at the barrier, but nothing happened other than a large noise. Suddenly, the barrier disappers, revealing the three players to them. When this happens, a blue pegasus with a rainbow colored mane rushes directly at them, hitting them with extreme force. To the pegasi’s surprise however, the creature she hit doesn’t budge an inch, causing her to worry. The creature pulls out a huge weapon double her size and prepares to swing it at her, all the while holding onto her hoof. However, before she is hit, jonny shouts

“Enough already! This is obviously a humongous misunderstanding, so let’s talk this out like adults before someone does something stupid that they’ll regret for the rest of their life!”

This outburst startles everyone, causing Lucifer to let go of the pony and back away from her.

“Sorry about that, now all us to introduce ourselves.” Jonny says to the ponies who are currently watching hesitantly.